Cardiff

Cardiff 

When Meret and I discovered that we both like the rock band “A Day To Remember”, we knew we had to go to on of their concerts in the UK. It turned out that the only concert on a Saturday or a Sunday was in … da da da dam … Cardiff! So we thought: Why don’t we make a weekend trip to Cardiff. That way we could go to the concert and travel through Wales a little bit.

The weeks went off and we bought the tickets, we bought train tickets and reserved some seats for us, we booked a hostel where we shared a room with four other people and of course… we were so excited to see the band! Meret has already seen them but it was supposed to be my first time.

Anyways, I do not want to tell too much now.

8^th of February, we woke up early, got ready, packed our stuff in small rucksacks and walked to the train station. By the way, that day was also my host mum’s birthday! I did not know that but she already knew I wouldn’t be there so I put her gift and a card on the kitchen table before I left.

Anyways, after the long way to Cardiff by train – fortunately we’ve already booked out train tickets and reserved two seats – we finally arrived in Cardiff!

Before I continue let me say something: It was fucking cold and windy.

We had a few hours before we had to check in in our hostel so we decided to use the time to explore Cardiff a little bit. As I unintentionally left Meret’s adapter in the train, I bought her a new one. So we strolled through the city centre, drank a coffee and visited the National Museum. Oh my God. It was amazing!

Here, have a look!

Furthermore, we saw the Cardiff Castle. However, we did not go in there as the entry price was really expensive. But we took a few pictures!

Of course the weather didn’t listen to us, so it began to rain. Not the usual light rain, nooo! Unfortunately not! However, we ran to our hostel and finally checked in. We shared a room with a few other people and one of them was going to the concert as well.  After we got changed and made ourselves a bit pretty, we walked to the arena. To be honest I was shocked as I did not expect that many people waiting. Anyways, we waited in the queue as well and after what felt like an eternity, the line slowly got forward. After a while we got really impatient and angry as it was after 7 and the show was supposed to start at half past seven.

I’ve had a gut feeling that something bad was going to happen… and voila, after half an hour people came to us and told us that the concert was cancelled. Yes, you’ve heard right… CANCELLED!

Apparently, the lead singer had a bad cold and he was not able to sing.

Let me just say: we were pissed. We were so fucking disappointed and angry. I mean that’s understandable. We travelled to Cardiff to see them and to enjoy the concert and after the concert was supposed to start they told us that it is cancelled. I mean if they told us these news a few hours ago we would’ve understood that and then we wouldn’t have waited two or three hours in the rain.

Afterwards Meret and I were looking for a few pubs and drank a few beers. The day was quite long and eventful so we decided to go back to the hostel and sleep so we can get up early the next day.

The following day we got up early, got dressed and went downstairs to eat breakfast. Fortunately you could just help yourself and prepare your own breakfast. After a nice black tea with milk and a bowl of cereal, we went upstairs to get ready and pack our stuff in order to check out.

As it was our last day in Cardiff we definitely wanted to go to Cardiff Bay and see the sea!

Have I already mentioned that it was very windy and cold? As we were taking pictures and walking around it started to rain heavily and we got soaked. Luckily there were a few coffee shops so we went to Starbucks to drink something hot and eat a snack.

In that church or in this area a few episodes of "Doctor Who" were filmed! :)

When the rain finally stopped we took the train back to the train station and we decided to get the earlier train back home. As we had to change in Reading, we took the chance to go to the shopping mall but we did not buy anything! We were just looking, haha.

After we ate something we took the train back to Farnborough and Fleet, respectively. I had already told my host mum that the concert was cancelled and she comforted me and I told them everything about the weekend.

So…yeah. The weekend did not turn round the way we thought it would be that is ok. Sure, we were quite disappointed but we got our money back and hey, we saw Cardiff and it is a beautiful city! Wales in general is really nice, I recommend it to everybody!

      

My beautiful Meret and I ☻ 

Ocean full of loves ☺♥