Cardiff Trip Day 6

[galadriel1010]

Awesome day of awesome fun with eldarwannabe. The Doctor Who tour is great :D


It was my last night at the YHA, so I woke up early and packed my stuff up and got out of there. Unfortunately it was, of course, Sunday, so the first bus I aimed for wasn't due until 15 minutes before I was supposed to meet eldarwannabe, which seemed like a bad idea. I then walked to the other street, where the bus I intended to catch wasn't running at all and the other bus on that route wasn't due until I was supposed to meet eldarwannabe. Having resigned myself to walking all the way into town, I saw a bus going along the end of the road, and there was much rejoicing, despite the ten minute wait for the next one along.

I got into town and went to the TI office to store my bags, but they closed too early for that to be feasible. I bought postcards instead, and then walked around to the bus station to meet eldarwannabe.

We actually walked past each other, because I wasn't wearing my red coat and she's arrived early, but we found each other in the end. We had a lovely, lovely chat in the bus station before the Doctor Who tour, about Torchwood and Doctor Who and the UK and lovely stuff like that, and then made our way around to the castle to meet the bus. It was a bit late, due to a breakdown of some sort, but that gave us the time to meet some of the other tourists.

The tour was great. It starts with a walking tour around the centre, followed by a trip to the museum, then out to Llandaff, St Fagan's, Penarth, the Bay and Butetown. It's still early days for the tour, just the seonc dweek, and it was very clear that the tourists knew Doctor Who considerably better than one of the guides, although the other knew pretty much everything. There was also a lot of explanation about what happened in the episodes, which we really didn't need.

It was great to meet so many Doctor Who fans and to see locations that I couldn't have got to easily otherwise. As we returned towards the castle, after seeing where Rose's dad died, I yelled out, as is compulsory, “who's coming to the pub after?”

There was a very disappointing silence.

A few did come, including eldarwannabe and Matt, the tourguide who knew everything. He'd been an extra in the show, and showed us where he'd died, and also gave us a super extra tour around the centre and a few more locations.

The Doctor Who tour is most very awesome, and you should definitely, definitely do it. Exciting news is that Matt is launching a Torchwood walking tour, hopefully sometime this Summer.

I told him I wanted his job.

After the walking tour I popped into another Wetherspoons for dinner, then caught a bus out to the Bay again. Checked into the St David's, into room 705. Top floor, gorgeous views right across the Bay to Mermaid Quay, massive bath, enormous bed, and a bottle of rosé wine.

I watched Lewis, had a bath, watched some Dave and spilled the bottle of rosé over myself and the duvet. Whoops.

But really, this room is lush.

Today, I am hungover. Next entry

Comments

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

Oh that's really sweet to hear about the shrine.

I just got really worried when Lewis talked about early retirement and Hathaway said he would leave if Lewis did, in last week's episode. I'm not sure where they are going with Laura.