Serendipitously today's (Sunday) New York Time travel section highlights "36 Hours in Cardiff," which opening slug starts:
Dive deep into Welsh history ...This historic deep dive consists of ... two hours at Cardiff Castle, prior to assuming the real obligation of a tourist -- shopping.
However, I must say what there is to experience at Cardiff Castle seems quite wonderful and useful to our sorts, though it would surely take more than two hours?
... Cardiff Castle, a site that combines Roman ruins, an 11th-century castle keep and an ornate, neo-Gothic clock tower built at the height of Cardiff’s coal boom. Climb to the top of the keep — which was thought to have been built by Robert Fitzhamon, a Norman baron — for a view over the city and the green hills beyond. In the basement of the interpretation center, a small museum offers an engaging account of more than 300 years of Welsh military history, covering the American Revolutionary War (and even earlier) through to more recent battles with the Taliban. Look out for the tattered American flag that United States troops surrendered to a regiment of Welsh soldiers at Fort Detroit during the War of 1812.We were reading the account of this surrender again last night in Henry Adams's History.
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