Exploring the Charming City of Cardiff Wales - Part 2

Cardiff City Center Part 2

Our Cardiff City Center Podcast is the second of two episodes highlighting the capital of Wales.  Our latest episode highlights our favorite food stops in Cardiff. We also share information on lodging and general tips for visiting this city in Wales.

Cardiff Food & Lodging Highlights

As discussed in this episode, we take you to several places where we enjoyed excellent meals during our stay in Cardiff.

Pieminister

Barker Tea House in the High Street Arcade

The Queens Vaults

200 Degrees Coffee Shop & Barista School

Creams Café Cardiff

We also talked about our lodging at the Willow Service Apartments, within walking distance of Cardiff City Center.

Our lodging was the Willow Service Apartments

Cardiff Travel Tips

We also discuss a few general travel tips to Cardiff.  Our observations included the following:

• Visiting a rainy town
• Ordering food in Cardiff eateries
• Cardiff is a good walking town, so plan your shoes accordingly
• Crossing the street can be an adventure for visitors from the states
• Options for getting around Cardiff
• Offline Google Maps for international travelers without cell phone service

We share a few more fun facts about Cardiff.  Tune in to the episode to find out how to soak up more info about Cardiff before your visit.

 

Recipes Recreated From Our Cardiff Meals

You can try our take on a vegetable curry we tried at The Queens Vaults in our recipe paying homage to this visit.  We’ve posted the recipe on our blog, and you can find it at this link:

Green Vegetable Curry A La Queens Vaults

Don’t forget the English Chips to accompany the curry

What foods will you sample on a trip to Cardiff City Center?

Our Travel Planning Resources For This Trip

We used TripAdvisor to identify attractions to see once we had our short list of cities identified for this UK trip.  We selected Cardiff to be our hub in Wales.  That would make it easy to get to several places in Wales, including Raglan, Barry Island, and key attractions we selected in Cardiff.

We leveraged “DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Great Britain” to identify specific attractions during our trip.  The book helped to identify walking tours and museums and times when particular places are open to visitors.  We recommend purchasing a book similar to this one when planning a more extended trip.

Past Episode Correction

Art shares a fact check update from Episode 3 on Virginia Cherrill.

Visit Cardiff Wales

Cardiff Wales is a gem of the UK that is well worth your travel consideration.  We hope these episodes inspire you to consider this great Welsh town. 

You’ll find our blog posts on our Cardiff area visit at these links:

Cardiff Itinerary

Tracing a Family Tree in Raglan

The Charming Town of Barry Island

St. Fagans National Museum

 

Our next episode will review our journey to Raglan and Caerleon. 

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We’ll see you at the places where we go.

Julie & Art