"Would you like a receipt with that"?

[Jimmy the Jock]

i think Cardiff has quality areas

The Hayes, The Arcades, Bute Park, The Castle, High St, St Davids 2, John Lewis, Brewery Quarter.

St Mary St is lively and the central market seems to have a full compliment of stalls.

Easy to knock some areas but there are decent places to make town good place to visit.

The bus station has been a shitshow but Wood St, the MillStad, Central Square areas are modern. And Mermaid Quay and the general Bay are is a positive experience with lots of eateries and space to walk next to the water.

Queen St was struggling with empty shop fronts but it's improved I seem to recall. Hasn't Sports Direct filled a big space?

Cardiff is almost a boutique city. I'm in Brussels at the moment and it's massive, like Paris lite without so many attractions. Where they get things right is the transport infrastructure, there are busses, trams, metro, overland trains on the move all the time. You barely have to wait more than a few minutes before the next service comes along.

It's not all touristy tough, lots of grafitti, run down areas, construction, shady characters flying around on e-scooters.

No city is perfect, ours is pretty special though.

Myself , Splott Parker and a few of our mates got off the tram/train at the wrong station in Brussels .
It was like a scene from The Warriors as we tried to head back into civilisation ( no one was actually chasing us ) but we knew we weren't in a safe place.