My thinking today was that as there are quite a few buses that go to Barry there aren’t that many that travel the Penarth to Barry coast road. I therefore decided on a trip to Cosmeston Park, just west of Penarth.
This meant that to make sure I took in all the delights of the No.94 route it would be a long first leg of the journey, starting in Cardiff, and staying on board all the way to Barry and back to the Cosmeston Park stop.
Cosmeston Park with its lakes isn’t natural. It was an old limestone quarry and then a landfill site before it opened as a country park in 1978. People mainly arrive by car, some of the more energetic ones by bike or walk in from the north and a few by bus. It was certainly busy today on a fine summer day in school holidays. The reconstructed medieval village was closed for filming but everything else was open as normal.
I did a figure of eight walk around the lakes stopping to get a coffee at Willmore’s kiosk and taking it to a quiet bench to enjoy the wildlife. There were some peaceful water sports for youngsters talking place, seemingly not interfering with the wildlife, and not of the scale that the water park that had caused protests in recent years.
My book for the day was Spymaster by Martin Pearce, a biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield and his time in MI6. It’s an interesting insight and seems to support of things I have read recently that spying in often more about befriending and influencing rather than covert listening devices etc. An interesting rather than a riveting read I thought.
My No.94 didn’t take the little detour down to Bendricks, that’s only in the early mornings and evenings. Will I return to complete it? I’ll have to think about that.
Cardiff Capers 