Today was a great day for Wales in Cardiff Bay – the return of the Wales Olympic gold medal winners Nicole Cooke, Tom James and Geraint Thomas and silver medal winner David Davies. I must admit that I have a bit of a soft spot for Nicole Cooke since she comes from close to where [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sport'
Welsh Medal Winners Welcome Home
August 26th, 2008
Tags: cardiff · cardiff bay · south wales · sport
Nicole Cooke – Olympics Gold Medal Winner from Wick
August 11th, 2008
Local girl Nicole Cooke has done us proud winning a Gold Medal in the Beijing Olympic games. Nicole is from Wick in the Vale of Glamorgan. Nicole snatched victory in the Women’s Cycling Road Race against strong competition. Best of luck in Wednesday’s time-trial. Update 14th August 2008: Unfortunately Nicole came in 15th in the [...]
Tags: south wales · sport
Is the Celtic Manor a “Monolith” ?
May 9th, 2008
An interesting point of view from Kevin McCloud on the Celtic Manor Hotel – Celtic Manor is ‘huge monolith’. I must admit that when I first saw the newly built Celtic Manor resort it towered above the old Celtic Manor hotel and the M4 motorway. As time has gone by I guess that we have [...]
Tags: places to stay · south wales · sport
British Drift Championships at Llandow
April 27th, 2008
We visited the British Drift Championships at Llandow Circuit yesterday. I was surprised to see that one of the top drivers is Shane Lynch of Boyzone fame. The photo shows Shane drifting around the first bend. Nice car! It’s a Skyline R33 GTS-T. The photo was taken by Kee. Have a look at his Flickr [...]
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