Quiet Day today. Spent the morning catching up on the blog and emails.
Lunch and leaving Mum to rest at home as she was very tired the four of us set off to the Quay side to have a look at the new Opera House (Wales Millennium Centre)
‘Wales flagship arts and cultural centre host to some of the world’s biggest productions-from West End and Broadway musicals to ballet and opera’
Tours run a couple of times a day. Michael decided that we would do our own and defying ‘no public access’ we took the lift up to the third floor and took a look into the main concert hall. Very impressive and very similar to our own Opera House concert hall. (Check the weblink)
It was then off to Explore the new National Assembly of Wales, the peoples Senedd.
Much to a lot of Welsh peoples dismay many millions of pounds have been spent here and are being spent for them just to be over governed by the bureaucrats
The publicity blurb says ‘the striking Welsh slate and glass architecture of the Senedd was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership to reflect the National Assembly for Wales’ core philosophy of openness and transparency. It is a building that blends traditional Welsh products and natural materials such as Welsh slate, glass and wood with state of the art design and technology. (We didn’t know at the time but we were to see where that slate came from)
Time for a cup of tea, nothing too appealing open, so we made our way back to the car and drove to M & M’s yacht club. In Penarth across the bay from their previous house.
Then it was home bound to Mum, as I’m sure she probably thought we had got lost, as the time had run away from us.
It was a pleasant evening relaxing and B & I planning our trip away the next day up to Anglesey and the Lake District. The weather forecast was not looking too bright with rain and storms due to hit the areas we want to visit over the next two days. We have been very lucky so far, however if its one thing we can’t change it’s the weather.
So to bed.
Lunch and leaving Mum to rest at home as she was very tired the four of us set off to the Quay side to have a look at the new Opera House (Wales Millennium Centre)
‘Wales flagship arts and cultural centre host to some of the world’s biggest productions-from West End and Broadway musicals to ballet and opera’
Tours run a couple of times a day. Michael decided that we would do our own and defying ‘no public access’ we took the lift up to the third floor and took a look into the main concert hall. Very impressive and very similar to our own Opera House concert hall. (Check the weblink)
It was then off to Explore the new National Assembly of Wales, the peoples Senedd.
Much to a lot of Welsh peoples dismay many millions of pounds have been spent here and are being spent for them just to be over governed by the bureaucrats
The publicity blurb says ‘the striking Welsh slate and glass architecture of the Senedd was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership to reflect the National Assembly for Wales’ core philosophy of openness and transparency. It is a building that blends traditional Welsh products and natural materials such as Welsh slate, glass and wood with state of the art design and technology. (We didn’t know at the time but we were to see where that slate came from)
Time for a cup of tea, nothing too appealing open, so we made our way back to the car and drove to M & M’s yacht club. In Penarth across the bay from their previous house.
Then it was home bound to Mum, as I’m sure she probably thought we had got lost, as the time had run away from us.
It was a pleasant evening relaxing and B & I planning our trip away the next day up to Anglesey and the Lake District. The weather forecast was not looking too bright with rain and storms due to hit the areas we want to visit over the next two days. We have been very lucky so far, however if its one thing we can’t change it’s the weather.
So to bed.
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