Cant go wrong with a vist to Cardiff.Loads of stuff to do + see.Cardiff Castle,milleium stadium loads of good pubs.

Lots of gigs on through out the year.


Cardiff Bay is also great when the weather is nice.


Have fun.

Cheers, mate. Thanks for the info - Cardiff was definitely on the tentative agenda and has now been moved to a must see. Also have a couple of buddies down in Plymouth that I want to visit before I get sucked into family obligations. Almost caught Chick Corea at Ronnie Scott's last year, but the idiot I have for a cousin drank herself into oblivion the night prior to the show and I took off from London and headed to Aldershot (sp?) to see my Aunt and other family. Can't keep up with piss-heads on a vacation as you tend to fall into a spell of complacency and lose your ambition. :P
Nevertheless, interesting thread, and it's always good to find a like-minded poster who is civil and inquisitive. Thanks for that, Porky. Enjoy your weekend, and if you come across any interesting reads related to this topic, please send the information off to me. As my Father is very prone to say: "There are 3 sides to every story, opposing views on their respective ends of the pole, and the truth waiting to be discovered somewhere in between both polarities" I found that hard to accept for a while, but now I'm convinced that it's an accurate axiom. With age comes the indispensable attribute of wisdom, which is a blessing in itself.