I am a trained tour guide, passionate about Cardiff and Wales.  I also love a good ghost story!

Discovering Cardiff’s history has been an ever growing passion since I moved to this city 12 years ago.  Many know about Cardiff’s boom years as a coal port in the nineteenth century which caused its phenomenal growth into today’s capital.  It is the Cardiff before that time that is so little known, but the clues are there all around us. 

They add up to a story waiting to be told! The story of a settlement which has been here for centuries, and witnessed cycles of triumph and disaster, rise, fall and rise again.  Signs of Cardiff’s changing shape and fortunes over the centuries remain all around the city centre.

As for the ghosts, well, listening to tales of ghosts and hauntings was part of my childhood in Wales, as it has been for so many children for generations.  Visits to relatives for Sunday tea always seemed to end with us children sitting both captivated and terrified as the grown ups exchanged their stories of their experiences, or shared stories passed down to them over the generations.

Such memories have no doubt lingered and left me with a love of storytelling, of legends, and a curiosity about the unknown.  I hope you will enjoy some of those stories with Cardiff History and Hauntings. I am delighted to include the Llandaff Ghost Walk: a Cardiff ghost tour which sheds light on the history of this great city, and which reflects a Welsh love of myth, legend and mystery.

If you already live in Cardiff, I hope I can help you see this city in a new and different light.  If you are visiting Cardiff, I want you to remember your experience with Cardiff History and Hauntings as a highlight of your visit, for the welcome I extend to you, and hopefully for stories that will leave you fascinated, intrigued and wanting more.