Cardiff Castle and the journey home

We had breakfast and then checked out of the hotel this morning.  We walked over to Cardiff Castle and had a good explore - it has a lot of interesting history and has a museum of Welsh military history called "In the Firing Line".  It is an exhibition commemorating over 300 years of proud and distinguished history including the Battle of Waterloo 1815, Rorke’s Drift against the Zulus 1879 as well as recent service in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

We had lunch at another nice little independent restaurant called Minuet and then had a look around the museum of Wales followed by a trip into Cardiff's Winter Wonderland and then the train back home.  It had been a fun trip and the bonus was that we had had some decorating done at home while we'd been away!

It was good to get another first class train home (Advance firsts are cheap) but rather disappointing that the first class lounge at Cardiff Station is not open at the weekends - we'd not have got there quite so early if we had known that!