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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 8, 2007 11:37:29 GMT
If we have 2 full days, I'd like to see St Fagan's again. We could re-enact The Famly of Blood! -Ralph You can be Matron! Andy |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 8, 2007 17:55:44 GMT
No. I shall be Baines.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 8, 2007 20:16:45 GMT
I'd vote for a revist to St Fagans. Although to be different, for me it wouldn't be because of the "Who" connection. And the Bay area is pretty nice in it's own right too.
Karl
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Post by Hero on Nov 10, 2007 21:53:31 GMT
Cardiff RULES
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 10, 2007 22:26:52 GMT
Is Barry Island reachable? Or the beach where the Doctor said goodbye to Rose? Not that I'm Doctor Who location spotting, nooooooooooooooo.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 10, 2007 22:37:31 GMT
Barry Island is almost as good a name as Barry Hercules.
Never been there, and no-one's ever recommended it to me as a place to go.
Dunno where that beach was. Probably some distance from Cardiff.
I can certainly take you to New York Central Park (aka Bute Park behind the castle).
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Post by Hero on Nov 11, 2007 10:01:41 GMT
I've heard from some of my welsh buddies that Barry isn't a great place to go.
Not my call. I'd come along whatever you guys decide.
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Post by kayevcee on Nov 11, 2007 11:46:34 GMT
I'd be well up for a trip to Central Park.
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Post by Nigel on Nov 11, 2007 17:04:08 GMT
The beach is Southerndown, about 30-45 minute's drive from Cardiff. It could probably only really be done if we had enough people with cars - taxis would be costly. I'm not sure of the most direct route from Cardiff.
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Post by Hero on Nov 12, 2007 9:15:37 GMT
Is there a train route that will take us a majority of the way in which we'd still have to get taxis for the rest of the journey, but save a few bob doing so?
Commuting from Cardiff to other places in Wales I have found reasonably cheap. It only costs me £2 extra to commute from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil for something that's an extra hour long trip.
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Post by Nigel on Nov 12, 2007 15:48:31 GMT
You could catch a train to either Llantwit Major (Vale of Glamorgan line) or Bridgend (my town, Paddington-Swansea main line).
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Post by Nigel on Nov 14, 2007 11:42:02 GMT
I said I wasn't sure of the most direct route from Cardiff to Southerndown. (I drove it once last year in the opposite direction and it wasn't signposted very well.) However, it occurs to me that the route I do know could work to our advantage. The A48 is the road driven along by Gwen when abducted by her resurrected Torchwood predecessor whose name escapes me (passing under the same bridge three times) and also the access to King Louis' palace (The Girl in the Fireplace) at Dyffryn Gardens. www.dyffryngardens.org.uk/ |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 14, 2007 14:02:50 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 14, 2007 17:40:33 GMT
I'm afraid this thread has now officially passed beyond my geek threshold... Cardiff Bay, St Fagans and Bute Park are top places to take visitors to Cardiff regardless of being Doctor Who locations - that's just a bonus - but trying to organise cars to drive out along an unmarked road that a car once drove along in Torchwood, to an unmarked piece of coastline where they once filmed a scene...
As happens to Ralph when he gets tat overload, so I go
BA-THROOOOM!
Martin
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Post by Nigel on Nov 14, 2007 18:17:16 GMT
I'd hardly call the A48 unmarked, seeing as it's the main road after the M4.
Dyffryn House is signposted off the A48 (at Bonvilston if I remember correctly), though once you get off the A48 to go to Southerndown, I don't know how well that's signposted (though I know the way).
Martin, is that an explosion or do you really need the toilet?
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Post by legios on Nov 14, 2007 19:40:19 GMT
Does it make it any better if one of the group admits he has no specific interest in a random bit of Welsh road, even though it was featured in one of the few "Torchwood" episodes he didn't dislike, and would have wanted to go to Southerndown again one day but only because he used to go there when a lot younger(and a looong time before Doctor Who landed there)?
(Oh, and I figure that getting to Southerndown with so few drivers/cars between us could verge on the unfeasibly difficult)
Karl
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Post by Nigel on Nov 14, 2007 20:11:56 GMT
(I think that was my original point.)
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Post by legios on Nov 14, 2007 20:48:52 GMT
(I think that was my original point.) *Looks back* Yes, indeed it was. Sorry Nigel, I forgot you had already said that further back in the thread. (I think my memory must be starting to fail - I am one of the old blokes on T'Hub mind you so is it any wonder.) Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 14, 2007 21:18:18 GMT
Here's a wacky idea: we don't all have to go round in one big group. With these mobile telephonic communication devices, we can split up and visit multiple locations according to interest similtaneously without fear of getting completely lost! Then everyone is happy!
In about 5 months time.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 19, 2007 14:48:09 GMT
Good idea. I'm not going to want to go too far during the day, I'm afraid my mobility has taken a bit of a knock from when I made the trip last year
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Post by Hero on Nov 27, 2007 22:17:37 GMT
I am game for whatever is decided.
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Post by Hero on Dec 7, 2007 23:41:34 GMT
Hey Martin. Would you do another quiz again? The last one was hard, but good fun.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 8, 2007 10:16:10 GMT
Depends. I can only write quizzes (had to check that plural in the dictionary) about pre-Beast Wars stuff. If you want a comprehensive Transformers quiz, the services of Mr Davidson must be called in. For a Cardiff weekend, we now also have in town the remains from the earliest formal human burial in western Europe. If that's not just asking to come back to life in an episode of Torchwood, I don't know what is. Martin |
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Post by Hero on Dec 11, 2007 23:34:41 GMT
Pre-BW is cool with me.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 17, 2007 10:42:55 GMT
Very well. Then as I don't do TF toys these days, the prizes shall be in the form of Easter eggs. The question is, will there be such a thing as TF Easter eggs? And if so, will they taste OK? Actually, that's not the question. The questions will be secret. And the prizes will be chocolate. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2007 10:54:15 GMT
I am praying to the Bunny God that there will be TF Easter Eggs next year.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 17, 2007 12:37:29 GMT
Very well. Then as I don't do TF toys these days, the prizes shall be in the form of Easter eggs. Martin As the Cyber-leader would say "Eggs-cellent!" Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2007 12:51:18 GMT
No! Not eggain!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 17, 2007 13:23:55 GMT
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Post by Hero on Dec 21, 2007 8:38:48 GMT
TF eggs would be great as long as the toy inside does'nt require assembling like a Kinder Egg figure would  ===KEN |
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