Millenium Stadium

View from the "gods".

 

What we learned from yesterday:

1) Cardiff is rather nice and certainly has very good shopping

2) Rally fans + Christmas shoppers + no park and ride (!?!) = long (but not horendous) queues

3) If you buy your ticket late you get seats at about 3,500m above sea level in the farthest corner of the stadium

4) but at £5 for kids and £15 for adults (before family discount) you can't go too far wrong

5) A Subaru rally jacket and matching cap is obligatory

6) but not a good look - though marginally better than a Eddie Stobart rally jacket and cap

7) All the WRC guys can drive

8) but Loeb, Gronholm and Solberg are in a league of their own

9) the scandinavian flick is going out of fashion

10) queueing for hot chocolate means you miss the pre-rally entertainment which was by all acounts superb

11) seeing full-on rally cars using public roads is cool

12) It was funny seeing all us rally folk in our 37 layers and bobble hats walking back through the town past all the Welsh folk going out for the night in their short sleve shrits!

 

Done