Cardiff is a many layered city. The street art is quirky, the names of the shops are pun laden, there is public art everywhere and many off the wall retailers. We started the day in the downstairs breakfast area enjoying the full English breakfast. I skipped the baked beans but the rest was very tasty. We then went to the National Museum which had a bit of everything. From Monet paintings to Rodin sculptures, to walls and walls of porcelain to taxidermy to fossils to meteorites to delicately carved jade. We started at the top and worked our way down. So much to see and such a variety as well. We stopped back at the hotel for a left overs lunch. We then wandered about a bit more. I got my phone screen replaced and Leslie finally found a tub of jewelry cleaner. I did find some stickers but nothing for Brains Beers. Oh well. It had been raining / misty all day and towards the afternoon the wind picked up. So we picked up some gyros for dinner and prepared to hit the road again in the morning.
At least this bird will not be leaving a mark
Porcelain lady in an oyster shell
The building was large and had multiple domes
Dozens of shades of white on these mugs
Renoir's Lady in Blue
The classic Rodin handiwork on these hands
Monet and his wife took to the canals of Venice every night that they were there
This was a vibrant sunset in Venice
Jade Oxen
A sea creature, a merman?
I spotted this large brown wading bird in a painting of exotic birds. I think it may be a bittern
And we see what has become of the bittern
To the left of the peacock is a vertical line in the painting. The painting was cut and it covered a secret door behind it. These are the things you find out when you talk to the guards in the museum
Fish dish
The last Bard of Wales was hunted down by the English
The tree is made from the paper excised from the book it is growing out of
We could not find the explanation of these thousand cardboard bird houses
A travel set of cutlery
The main dome
A very large canvas celebrating the one million horses and mules used in WW1
A ceramic bear
Nice spiral staircase
The WWI doughboys carrying the spirit of the Crusaders
A feathery dinosaur
Chomp chomp says the fossilized fish
The wooly rhino was very small, smaller than a great Dane
Bright and beautiful
The central dome
A decorative panel on the front door
This excited zebra has a top knot
The top banner reads "Union of shop distributive and allied workers"
Jacques Cousteau in his later years grew to an immense size and would terrorize rural parts of France
Fun in the market looking for stickers
The guy at the market suggested that we look here
No stickers but lots of Quirk
Great buildings everywhere
World famous fried chicken
A big circle
Yikes oversized bees
Pride flags every
Hanging out
Whoooo scary
An inflatable lion suit?
Break the rules by wearing lederhosen in Wales
The caged hippo still glows
