PHOTOS – Cardiff Swica Carnival

The sun was beaming, the streets of Cardiff were brimming with Saturday shoppers and many weeks of preparation had gone into making this year’s Swica Carnival a total success. Deviating from it’s roots in Butetown this year the procession began from The Atrium and began it’s lengthy journey around the city centre via Churchill Way. […]

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CARDIFF CITY – Promotion Parade Video

After winning promotion to the Premier League as champions of the Npower Championship, Cardiff City in conjunction with Cardiff Council held a day of events across the City to celebrate their promotion. Here’s a few snippets all glued together from what was an amazing day with an electric atmosphere throughout. Watch it full screen and […]

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CARDIFF CITY – Promotion Parade

After winning promotion to the Premier League as champions of the Npower Championship, Cardiff City in conjunction with Cardiff Council held a day of events across the City to celebrate their promotion. Here’s a few snippets all glued together from what was an amazing day with an electric atmosphere throughout. Watch it full screen and […]

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CARDIFF-Street signs

Most cities are home to a rich tapestry of street names ranging from detailing local history, local characters and places to some that are just a bit odd! People adding pictures, extra words or just deleting certain letters can give the street sign a totally different meaning! Beginning with Canal Parade off Dumballs Road in […]

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PHOTOS-Queen’s Trooping of the colour

I was in London and the sun was shining so I thought a quick trip from my hotel in Victoria past Buckingham Palace to visit the delights of Shoreditch was in the offering (a post on THAT visit soon.) But stopping outside The Palace for a few quick shots and I realised that there was […]

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CARDIFF-St David’s Day parade

St David’s Day 2012 in Cardiff began with a thick fog lingering across the City resulting in famous sights becoming totally unrecognisable. But as the day progressed the strong Spring sunshine took over and brightened up what was a very gloomy start to our Patron Saint’s Day. In the Capital City of Wales it was […]

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PHOTOS-Cardiff Mas Carnival 2011

It had been a weekend of changeable weather with it being really sunny one minute then really heavy downpours minutes later. Luckily on Saturday it stayed dry for most of the day and the whole of the Mas Carnival parade which left Cardiff Bay at 11:30am. It snaked it’s way up Bute Street, passing many […]

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RUGBY-Fans in City Centre trophy parade

Saturday 21st May, 2011 and one of the biggest weekends in the rugby world to hit the capital city for a while! On Friday night Stade Francais took on Harlequins in The Amlin Challenge Cup Final at the Cardiff City Stadium whilst on Saturday the Northampton Saints took on Leinster in the Heineken Cup Final […]

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PHOTOS-Canal Parade, Butetown.

Taking a different route back from Cardiff Bay and veering down a slightly dodgy-looking side-street called Canal Parade. (Someone crossed off the obvious letter on the sign for humourous effect – and yes i still titter nearly everytime I see it!) The street didn’t look particularly inviting and looked quite run down, with some new […]

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Cardiff Mas Carnival

It’s now 21 years since the original Cardiff Mas Carnival event was held – beginning as a small affair in Butetown but blossoming into a big and beautiful procession from Cardiff Bay, through Butetown and into the City Centre. In conjunction with Swica and Cardiff City Council this event has grown over the years and […]

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PHOTO-ITV Wales News support for Armed Forces Day 2010

ITV News Wales, originally uploaded by armed forces day cardiff. Just stumbled across this photo on the interweb with ITV Wales News presenters helping mark Armed Forces Day in Cardiff, 2010. For some reason I got the Benny Hill theme music going through my head whilst looking at it………… For more info on Armed Forces […]

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VIDEO-People’s attitude towards Repatriation Parade in Cardiff.

At 12:30 today the Welsh Guards staged the first in a series of homecoming parades in Wales, with a march through Cardiff to also help launch Armed Forces Day 2010. It began at the Millennium Plaza along Wood Street via The Hayes ending up at Cardiff Castle. The parade involved 250 soldiers from the 1st […]

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VIDEO-St David’s Day Parade Cardiff

more about "St David’s Day Parade through Cardiff", posted with vodpod

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PHOTOS-Happy Saint David’s Day

Happy Saint David’s Day to Welshmen and Welsh Women around the world and universe! A short anonymous poem about the seven wonders of Wales:- “Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple, Snowdon’s mountain without its people, Overton yew trees, St Winefride’s wells, Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells” Who’d have thought of the Welsh connections some of these […]

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