Cardiff

Let's see here, my most recent trip was to the capital of Wales, Cardiff. It takes about an hour to get to Cardiff from Swansea, so it wasn't too bad of a bus ride! We went to a Welsh museum just outside of the city. The museum was kind of like the living history farms in Des Moines. We walked around to different points outside, such as a manner house, which looked like a castle, to some old farm houses, and to small historical Welsh villages. It was a pretty cool experience to see what the civilizations used to be like in Wales. There was also a few galleries to walk through inside. There was one on Welsh history, one on agriculture, and then one on Welsh dress from the 1800s until today. The last one was my favorite exhibit because I like to see the different fashion trends throughout history. Plus, I remembered a lot of things from my history of costume class that I took this last semester. While looking at the different garments, I could tell what time period they were from without having to look at the dates. It's nice to know that I actually retained some information from my classes! After we left the museum, we went into Cardiff and to the city centre. I'm not going to lie, they had some pretty awesome shopping there. The best part was that they had an H and M, which is my favorite store. The weirdest thing that happened was that there was a protest that was going through the middle of the city centre about Palestine and saying that Bush was the number one terrorist. It really surprised me because I've never seen anything like that before!