This is walking distance from my office, a short bus ride from home.
Absolutely glorious. It’s weird now to remember what it used to look
like, less than 20 years ago, before the barrage was built across the mouth of the bay to create
this freshwater lake. Before that the bay was open to the Bristol
Channel, which has the second greatest tidal range in the world - when
the tide was out, all this was just mud flats, ringed with derelict
docks and warehouses. Once upon a time, my forebears worked down here as
sailors and labourers and engineers. They wouldn’t recognise it now.
The regeneration of Cardiff Bay has been an amazing success, blending
the new with the relics of the industrial past on which this city was
built. I love it.
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