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Finally Venturing Somewhere Outside of Cardiff
So the other week I found myself in South-East Wales working on a short film. Mostly in Newport but with a bit of Cwmbran and Ystrad Mynach (the later being the only thing I can say in a passably Welsh accent) thrown in. However my day off was spent in Newport so I puttered around being a total tourist and took photos, so picspam!
The castle as viewed from the bridge
One of the octagonal turrets.
Despite not making much use of the place as a tourist attraction, someone has given it some nice banners.
It looks temptingly as though its normally open to the public and I've just missed opening hours, but the internet assure me its been closed to the public since 2003.
Knowing pretty much nothing about Welsh castle design, I cannot tell if this is the keep or just a big square tower.
Model of the castle as it was designed with a brief history on one side in Welsh and the other in English.
Arches and banners.
there were lots glimpses of hidden doorways, stairways and carefully built paths that called out to me to scale the fence myself. I resisted the temptation but only just.
For some reason I find the faded primary colours rather charming.
Given that it had poured torrentially that morning, the river was ridiculously low.
They're doing a lot of regeneration work where the old docks were, there's a nice arts centre and the new building of the University of Wales' Newport campus.
Apparently I utterly failed to take any photos of the arts centre itself so have a couple of photos of some 'art' that was inside. Space Dancers and a Dragon.
I was looking at this photo, thinking: "if this place used to be a major post, then either the river used to be much higher or its a tidal river much like the Forth here in Stirling" and lo and behold I looked it up and found that the Usk is indeed a tidal river.
Ruddy great lump of public art.
New univ building. Apparently the old one was lovely but I've not seen it.
Vaguely arty shot of some rather nice fountains
Unexpected toadstool
A mosaic map of Newport's trade roots.
With Welsh and Chinese Dragon details.
I love how pervasive the Welsh language is in Wales, even in a majority English speaking area like this. Even the road markings are bilingual.
Bi-lingual trees!
There were two of these in an otherwise rather desolate and run-down square outside the tourist information centre.
I've genuinely no idea what this statue is supposed to be, a dementor perhaps? It appears to have no face.
Frontage of one of the buildings in the main/high street
The old reflected in the new.
They solve the issue of dark and dingy underpasses with mosaics in this town apparently.
Makes those blue plagues look kind of shabby...
The castle as viewed from the bridge
One of the octagonal turrets.
Despite not making much use of the place as a tourist attraction, someone has given it some nice banners.
It looks temptingly as though its normally open to the public and I've just missed opening hours, but the internet assure me its been closed to the public since 2003.
Knowing pretty much nothing about Welsh castle design, I cannot tell if this is the keep or just a big square tower.
Model of the castle as it was designed with a brief history on one side in Welsh and the other in English.
Arches and banners.
there were lots glimpses of hidden doorways, stairways and carefully built paths that called out to me to scale the fence myself. I resisted the temptation but only just.
For some reason I find the faded primary colours rather charming.
Given that it had poured torrentially that morning, the river was ridiculously low.
They're doing a lot of regeneration work where the old docks were, there's a nice arts centre and the new building of the University of Wales' Newport campus.
Apparently I utterly failed to take any photos of the arts centre itself so have a couple of photos of some 'art' that was inside. Space Dancers and a Dragon.
I was looking at this photo, thinking: "if this place used to be a major post, then either the river used to be much higher or its a tidal river much like the Forth here in Stirling" and lo and behold I looked it up and found that the Usk is indeed a tidal river.
Ruddy great lump of public art.
New univ building. Apparently the old one was lovely but I've not seen it.
Vaguely arty shot of some rather nice fountains
Unexpected toadstool
A mosaic map of Newport's trade roots.
With Welsh and Chinese Dragon details.
I love how pervasive the Welsh language is in Wales, even in a majority English speaking area like this. Even the road markings are bilingual.
Bi-lingual trees!
There were two of these in an otherwise rather desolate and run-down square outside the tourist information centre.
I've genuinely no idea what this statue is supposed to be, a dementor perhaps? It appears to have no face.
Frontage of one of the buildings in the main/high street
The old reflected in the new.
They solve the issue of dark and dingy underpasses with mosaics in this town apparently.
Makes those blue plagues look kind of shabby...
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