Cardiff Castle and Cheese

A post graduate degree is hard work. The last few months of travelling and all the challenges that went with it are small in comparison to what I am studying now. Over the past 6 months I have blogged about visiting new countries and about getting very lost. Well Wales is a fairly new country for me, and since most of the signs are in Welsh I am constantly getting lost.

I have just started a post graduate degree in broadcast journalism at the University of Cardiff, and love every minute of it. This course is completely different to anything I have done in academia. For one thing we get to play with expensive microphones, and are tasked with building our own contacts book to generate stories for Radio and Television. Almost no time is spent in the library, and reading the morning papers counts as research!

Over the next few months I will be starting other projects to showcase my work, so this blog will continue to be about things outside of journalism. However you should expect the occasional shameless plug here, especially into the New Year.

So this is what I have managed to do so far; I have explored the beaches of Ogmore, Cardiff Castle and sampled a lot of its cheese thanks to a local festival. After much searching I have discovered the location of Ikea, Tescos and Asda! I am in the process of setting up my own basketball team, an impressive feat since I can't catch! Finally I have remembered how to cook nice meals again. so now I am off to make crumble!