Stories from a lifetime of travel & food adventures from around the globe
My best friend from my childhood is named Bobi Jo. Boooooooobi Jo, E-I-E-I-O. Bobi still lives in my hometown, works at the same place that she did her college internship, and drives what is, basically, the latest model of the first car she ever bought brand new. She smokes, has a regional accent, and religiously …
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Through a happy accident and twist of fate, I found myself with a few months of freedom this summer. Now, I’m not one of those people who doesn’t know what to do with their free time. You know the ones who say “Even if I won the lottery, I’d still go to work. I just …
Wales is a country filled with diversity from the forests of the north country to the surf of the south. Cardiff embodies this diversity and has the weird and wonderful facts to prove it! Cardiff was founded by the Romans in 55AD but was a town of only 2,000 people in 1800. By 1900, the …
Continue reading Top 10 quirky facts that you don’t know about Cardiff (or, at least, I didn’t!)