Cardiff is a shopper’s paradise. There is ample car parking (but you have to pay for it), its well serviced by buses and the train station not that far away. Outdoor shopping, modern indoor malls, quaint arcades and a huge indoor market all go to make up the ‘Cardiff Shopping Experience’. All the main high street shops are centred surprisingly around the high street (Queen Street), whilst the numerous long and winding oldie worlde arcades offer such a magical mix of shops with not a whiff of high street commercialism/consumerism in sight. The modern indoor malls are always clean but absolutely jam-packed with people at lunch times. One of them deserves a mention here and that’s the Capitol Shopping Centre. Its architecture is very, very modern combining gravity defying wall of shop front glass as well as a glass bridge that you can actually walk across. Not much to say about the indoor market except that is it just an indoor market albeit a huge sometimes messy one.
It is reassuring to know that the shopping centre is a car free zone whilst if you want free entertainment there is always someone busking away with there violins, guitars or even didgeridoo. A small article like this does little justice to Cardiff as a shopping centre – perhaps you need to experience the ‘experience’ yourself!
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Nov 11th, 2000
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