Day 1 - Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Later that afternoon I went back to the bay to see the Doctor Who exhibit at the Red Dragon Center.  A word to the wise: save your fiver.  It was all from the modern series, mostly just costumes and a few Dalek models.  It’s at a mall and takes all of five minutes to walk through.

That night we headed up to the village of Llandaff a ghost walk.  (Geek note, this is the village from the first Doctor Who with Prisoner Zero, we stood on the green where the Doctor met Rory.)  Look familiar?

The walk was great, it went from the cathedral down along the river Taff and through the graveyard of the cathedral.  Some interesting history, when the cathedral was restored by the Victorians they built a wall and added carvings of the heads monarchs of the UK along the south wall.  Apparently being neither good at math or history they started with Edward I and ended with Queen Victoria, several feet short of the end of the wall.  They decided to leave space and fill in as new monarchs were added.  A legend developed that when the last head was added either monarchy or the cathedral would fall.  Edward VIII took the last space on the wall, then abdicated the throne almost ending the monarchy.  The church was then hit by a German bomb that fell short of the port in Cardiff, destroying everything but the wall.