Weekend in Cardiff

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I know everyone is busy with spoilers and excitement, but I've been doing what I'm good at and having a weekend away again taking photos in the further afield Sherlock Land of Wales. Let me tell you there are some pretty unsalubrious places that got shot at/in/around (snapping the outside of the Gent's loo at Cardiff Castle was the least of my worries) and I had 265 photos (now whittled down to 235) to sort through and tidy up. Still, I felt I had to share this little bit of photoness with you before I got down to the hard graft.

(no not this photo, but it's a nice one anyway, AND it has a Travelling Lemon in it too!)




It's St Woolos Cemetery in Newport where BF garienos, my friend spacefall and I went to see how much of the site was still extant after two years, and what had changed since we went last year. This is fast becoming my favourite location for Sherlock and is a lovely place to go anyway. We got a fantastic weekend weatherwise (which is not always going to happen in Cardiff), a beautiful evening to go and pay our respects when we arrived in Wales, and a lovely morning to go back the following day.

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What were they even THINKING?

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OK, so I have another interesting photo to show you and this one is (at least IHO) more than a bit amusing.

I will have to do a full report on Cardiff Castle aka The Tower of London from The Reichenbach Fall at a later date when I have all the screen grabs sorted out, but thought you'd like to see this little photo comparison which makes me giggle. Somehow (and I am not sure who thought this one up) the site they first stick Andrew Scott in front of in the castle grounds, is actually the Gent's Loos.

I can verify this as I stood outside them during at least one visit, waiting for quite a while when waiting for BF to finish and for us to the go and find the Ladies for me. They are in the new visitors' centre over the other side of the entrance and are a bit harder to spot, and I was getting a little desperate in that case too ;-)

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