I mentioned in my last blog how deciding to visit Cardiff, Wales, in January was quite a choice. 😂 And while we enjoyed our time in Cardiff, the real highlight of our visit to Wales was the day trip we took to the Gower Peninsula. We had considered renting a car in advance of the trip, but we decided against it in case the weather was going to be bad — so we basically booked and planned our road trip less than 24 hours before we set off.

Here’s what our day trip from Cardiff to the Gower Peninsula looked like, and what you need to know if you want to plan your own. [Read more…]

Whether it was spending an infernal August in Sevilla, moving to Ecuador for two months, or just visiting the city of Bratislava at all, sometimes we find ourselves planning trips that leave other people with only one question: Why? Our most recent trip — to Cardiff, Wales, on New Year’s Day — was just another example. As we boarded the National Express bus to Cardiff from Bristol airport, the bus driver couldn’t figure out why in the world three Americans had turned up in winter coats and backpacks for a January trip to the gloomy UK, and he told us as much.

But with our friend Hanna visiting us in Alicante for the second time, we wanted to take the opportunity to travel somewhere new together. And flights between Alicante and Bristol (just an hour from Cardiff) were direct and cheap, and none of us had ever been to Wales before. So we followed our own typical line of reasoning, which also asks a question: Why not?

With almost no prior knowledge about Cardiff or Wales, here’s my review of the Welsh capital city. [Read more…]