Cardiff Today

Cardiff is the capital city of Wales situated about a 150 miles to the west of London, it has a population of around 300,000 people, Wales is a small mountainous country of around 8,000 square miles with 3 million people and 12 million sheep, which means you always assured of good roast dinner on a Sunday.

Once famed for its heavy industries of docks and steel works these have now almost disappeared and the bulk of the workforce is employed in the service industries. The city centre is on a compact human scale and within a square mile it boasts, a castle, a beautiful civic centre, a university, two theatres, two concert halls, numerous cinema screens, dozens of shops pubs and restaurants, the famous Millennium Stadium.

With its two universities and various colleges it boasts around 25,000 students, Cardiff nightlife definitely has an accent on youth and every weekend the pubs and nightclubs are full of youngsters eager to increase their loan repayments. Their numbers are further swelled by the influx of Valley boys and girls looking for the excitement of the big city.

Whilst the city centre is great for a pub-crawl the recently revamped Bay area (the old docks) is now a hive of activity with waterside pubs and restaurants, swish new apartments, and in the centre of all this the brand new Wales Millennium Centre – a 2,000 seat concert hall home to the Welsh National Opera and visiting West End Musicals.

Cardiff is a very green city - a legacy of Lord Bute - it has thousands of acres of park land and more trees per head of population than any city in the world apart from Vancouver.