I love doing tourist stuff, and I'm one of the few people who enjoy being a tourist on their metaphoric doorstep.

My lover and I have managed to spend some time together recently. I repaid him for my various tours of Swansea with some sightseeing in Cardiff and its environs. it's just lovely seeing someone respond to things and places one likes oneself. A friend of mine was surprised when I volunteered to take her and her brother (unknown to me before our day out)to St Fagans, our wonderful folk museum. more recently I took great pleasure taking my lover around the museum with its amazing collection of Welsh historic buildings put together in a lovely landscape.

This week has been the amazing Castell Coch and Caerphilly Castle.

Castell Coch (red castle)is a fabulous fairytale castle constructed by Burgess for Bute when he was richest man in the UK and seemed to own most of Wales. It is a magical looking plaything of a building set in woodland a few miles outside Cardiff.

In contrast Caerphilly Castle is an imposing and very real Norman castle built to control the Welsh - So a castle in Wales rather than a Welsh castle... it does look wonderfully impressive though.

We've also been back to Penarth and mooched around various garden centres. It's been very holiday-like doing fun stuff together.