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Entries from February 2009

New House Country Hotel, Cardiff

February 9th, 2009

A few months back we had a romantic weekend away at the excellent New House Country Hotel just north of Cardiff. We fancied somewhere special and New House certainly lived up to that! The hotel is situated on the hills just north of the city and has a spectacular view down over Cardiff and the [...]

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Tags: cardiff · places to eat · places to stay · south wales

UK Weather Rain and Snow Radar

February 8th, 2009

With all this bad weather we’re having at the moment I’ve found that the UK Met. Office’s rain radar service has been invaluable to see where the really heavy rain and snow is. It updates every 30 minutes and even has an animated sequence of images over the past 6 hours or so so you [...]

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Tags: science · south wales · tourism · weather

M4 Motorway Traffic Cams

February 1st, 2009

I guess that with all this snow predicted over the next few days then the M4 traffic-cam network will be working overtime. If you want to have a quick look at traffic and snow conditions on the M4 motorway over the next few days then there is a good summary page for South East Wales [...]

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Tags: south wales · video · webcams