Travel Notes 5: Cardiff

Nancy Friedman
6 min readNov 6, 2022

Previously in Travel Notes: SFO to NYC, Aboard the Queen Mary 2, London, Bristol.

Does Wales have the coolest flag in the world? It’s possible.

Red dragon against a field of green and white
The dragon symbol goes back to Roman Britain

Cardiff, the Welsh capital, is a mere one-hour train ride from Bristol, where I’d been staying with friends Jane and Andy. We decided to make a day of it: a journey to a different country with a different language that is also, confusingly, the same…

Nancy Friedman

Writer, name developer, brand consultant, idea-ist, ex-journalist. Find me on Twitter, Mastodon, and Instagram (@fritinancy) and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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