Welcome to Cardiff/Croeso y Caerdydd!

So after a long time, the reality is finally here: I am starting a new year long period of my life in Cardiff, Wales! Decided to make the best experience out of it, I’m am currently trying to contact all the media-related agencies in the town and find myself a part-time job, which would support me during my studies of Photography at the University of Glamorgan for a year.

I have to say though, the school is simply beautiful! The brand new multimedia building worth 35,000,000 pounds built in the heart of Cardiff is a very unique project. Offering its future students all kinds of art and media related fields such as drama, media and communications, journalism, TV and radio broadcasting, film, photography, as well as fashion promotion and new media design, the University of Glamorgan’s ATRiuM is supposedly the only school of its kind in all of Europe. The more excited I am to start studying at the beginning of next week!

During the downtime I have before the school starts next week I am trying to get acclimatized with the life in the city and explore some of its beauties. Today I took the train to the Cardiff Bay and it was a very smart thing to do! The first thing that I am always looking for when I come to a new place is: the water. The water calms me down, gives me a certain feeling of balance and builds my impression of the place, where I find myself as a whole. It was exactly what I needed, without the bay the perception of the city wouldn’t be the same!

While the centre of Cardiff offers more of the shopping experience and the pub culture, bars and clubbing driven life, the Cardiff Bay, on the other hand, shows more of the pleasant atmosphere of just walking around the promenade, breathing the fresh air, sipping cappuccino wrapped up in the blanket in one of the local cafes or even enjoying the cultural life of the opera theatre and the drama performances that the Millenium Centre has to offer. The life in the Cardiff Bay just goes in a much more easy-going pace than the busy shopping-oriented district of the centre of the city…

Although being busy looking for a job at the moment, I managed to take some nice pictures during my quick visit to the bay today. Hope you’ll enjoy! And I promise to get back to some reasonable frequency of posting new images, which will hopefully be much shorter than a month!

~ by martinaolbertova on September 17, 2008.