Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 17 August

Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]

Photo Friday: Naked bike riders in Cardiff

Cardiff, Wales, UK; June 2009 Here I was on a Saturday afternoon in June, hanging out in Cardiff Bay with my aunt and Welsh cousins. We were all enjoying the summer sunshine, the adults were drinking pear cider, and we were waiting for a break dancing show. Suddenly a few dozen naked cyclists rode by. [...]

Best of the web: Soup, cupcakes, blogs, tapas, NZ and Wales

* A round-up of San Francisco Bay area food blogs on Becks & Posh. * Seduction Soup (aka Asparagus & Crab Soup) on Cafe Lynnylu. * Also on Cafe Lynnylu, a beautiful photograph of cupcakes (there’s a recipe too but I just like the picture – the cupcake even has a little skirt!). * The [...]

Welsh choir in the valleys

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The road into Senghenydd from the imposing Welsh castle town of Caerphilly snakes along the side of a steep slope that drops into a rocky valley. Lined with red-toned terrace houses in local stone, the village almost clings to the hillside, and though coal mining died out here long ago, the landscape [...]

Birthday bash in Cardiff

My uncle Chris celebrated his 50th birthday on Saturday and my boyfriend and I headed up for the bash at his house in Cardiff. Happy birthday, Chris! My aunt Michele (left, in the purple dress) had prepared a fabulous spread of food – some of it with ingredients from her garden – including salad and [...]

Survival of the cutest

The weekend before last my boyfriend and I went down to Cardiff to see my aunt and cousins (my uncle was on his way to China for work). They all seem very well: my aunt is doing some landscape design work; the older boy is about to turn 16 and was sitting the last of [...]

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