Caerphilly Castle - May 24 - Day 9

Helen and Heather headed over to Caerphilly in the morning to visit the castle.  The end result of the visit being that Helen decided she wanted to live in a castle.  It was a pretty great castle, and it features a tower that leans about 10 degrees away from vertical (which, according to the signs in the castle, is more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa and is therefore impressive).  Helen decided she was going to push it back up again (it didn't work).

In the afternoon, we went to visit Cardiff Bay.  It turns out that the Millennium Centre is actually kind of ugly (which is not the impression you get from watching Doctor Who OR Torchwood).

The fountain across from the Millennium Centre was devoid of water when we visited, and as a result was ridiculously reflective.  Heather still felt the need to stand in front of it on Torchwood's "invisible lift," though.

Apparently huge fans of Torchwood REALLY miss Ianto.  A wall has been put up in the Bay to allow people to show how much they wish Ianto would come back to the show, despite the fact he DIED at the end of the last season.

Cardiff Bay is also full of interesting statues and weird art.

There's a mysterious circle that Heather thinks might be dedicated to Roald Dahl...

A bizarrely reshaped boat that is most likely no longer seaworthy...

A statue that definitely represents Scott leaving Cardiff on a doomed mission to Antarctica from which he would never return...

And two funny looking men in a bathtub for reasons I cannot begin to understand...