You can try both on land and watersports activities, such as surfing, kayaking, speedboating and even scuba diving in the seas around South Wales and the Vale of Glamorgan. Or in the Brecon Beacons try gorge walking, survival skills, mountain trekking or bootcamps.
For hen parties in Cardiff you can also combine days of activities, ideal for loosing a few pounds before the big day, with great nights out in the bars and clubs in Cardiff.
Call Ocean Quest on 01656 783310 for details and prices for stag and hen party weekends in Cardiff.
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CASS Scaffolding are a new national level scaffold erecting firm who have launched with a bang. They have been successful in winning multi million pound contracts throughout the UK and notably supplying the scaffold for the refurbishment of the Grand Pier in Weston Super Mare and the National Museum and Galleries of Wales temporary roof protection system using an innovative HAKI sliding roof.
MVC Building Services are a professional construction firm in Barry and provide building services in The Vale of Glamorgan and throughout South Wales. They build anything from a garden wall to a block of flats, however, I have personally seen some terrific extensions, garage conversion and conservatories built recently by them.
Room Designs and Furnishings are a specialist form of interior designers, providing soft furnishings and interior refurbishments for hotels, guest houses, commercial property and residential homes. They have a studio in Park Crescent offering fantastic quality curtains, decorations and soft furnishing to the general public as well as corporate clients.
]]>Since the last post David Davies has gone on to win a silver medal in the 10k open water race at the Beijing Olympics securing himself suitable admiration, praise and the freedom of the town. Congratulations David.
Look out for David switching on the Christmas Lights in Barry on Friday 21 November at 6.00pm. Don’t you find that the Christmas build-up is starting earlier this year. I am not even thinking about Christmas until December 1st except for the Christmas Lights switch-on of course.
The credit crunch has hit town and in an effort to drum up more business I have helped to set up a Chapter of the BNI network here in Barry. Basically we are a group of local Barry businesses who meet regularly and refer business to each other. I am pleased to say that referrals are coming in and I have never been busier. Check back here for more information and some recommendations for excellent service providers especially if you are looking to rent out or indeed rent a property in Barry and the Vale.
Talking about the credit crunch I can’t believe how greedy the banks have been over the past few years and the amount of problems their selfish actions have caused.
]]>David managed to keep pace with the leaders until the final 200 metres where the extra effort to qualify for this final in Fridays heats took its toll. With ‘nothing left in the tank’ David still managed to beat off the competition from the two Chinese swimmers. With this performance, although disappointing by his standards, he is still a world class swimmer.
He now swims again on Thursday in swimming’s equivalent to the marathon, the 10,000 metres open water race. Surprisingly this is a distance that David has only ever swam twice before, so best of luck David.
]]>He qualified in 5th place with a respectable time of 14mins 46.11 seconds. Grant Hackett from Australia has broken the Olympic record in his heat posting a time of 14 minutes 38.92 seconds.
It should be an exciting final on Sunday.
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Barry born swimmer David Davies is competing in two events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
He will be aiming to improve on his current 1500 meters freestyle bronze medal (Athens 2004) by challenging for his first Olympic Gold medal. He has also entered the first ever Olympic 10 kilometers Open Water event, a challenging endurance race that will take place in the rowing lake.
You can follow his progress by watching the BBC Olympic coverage:
Highlights from the heats of the men 1500 meters freestyle will be shown on
Friday 15 August at 20.00 (BBC Satellite, Cable, online and Freeview)
David is swimming in heat 3 which is scheduled to start at 19.35 (Beijing Time) 12.35 UK time
If he qualifies by posting a suitably fast time in the heats stage then the final of the mens 1500 meters freestyle will be shown live on Sunday 17 August at 10.09 (Beijing Time) 03.09 UK time.
Highlights will be shown at 07.00 (BBC Satellite, BBC3, online , Cable and Freeview)
The current world record for the 1500 meters freestyle is 14mins 34.56 seconds set by Australian Grant Hackett in Japan 2001. Davids personal best at this distance is 14 minutes 45.95 seconds and at this moment stands ninth in the world rankings. As well as Hackett who is looking for his third consecutive mens 1500 meters Olympic gold medal, Davids main competitors will be USA’s Peter Vanderkaay (who earlier this year swam 10 seconds faster than David), Russian Yuriy Prilukov, Korean PARK Taehwan and from Poland Mateus Sawrymowicz. The local swimmer will be Zhang who has also posted a sub 15 minutes qualifying time this year.
If he wins a medal there will be extensive news coverage on TV and radio throughout Wales.
More details about Olympic swimming can be found on the BBC website
The 10k open water marathon
is a new Olympic event for 2008. 25 swimmers will compete over 10,000 meters in a grueling, competitive event being held in the SY Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. As conditions where this event takes place vary throughout the world, swimmers compete in rivers, lakes and man-mad dams, there is no official world record.
David has competed twice in this event this year. In South Africa in January he came first and for the Olympic qualifiers held in Seville in may David came second posting a time of 1 hour, 53 minutes 21.3 seconds - that’s faster than many people can run the same distance.
The mens 10k Open Water (marathon) is scheduled to take place on Thursday August 21 at 09.00(Beijing Time) 02.00 UK time
It will be shown on the BBC at 02.00 (live on BBC Satellite, Cable, online and Freeview) Highlights at 08.15 and 14.00 with a further showing on Freeview at 19.00.
Check out David’s BBC diary entry.
GOOD LUCK Dave
]]>What a great event and a good news story for Barry Island and the town itself. The host DJ Scott Mills seemed to have a great time and so did the visiting celebrities like Ruth Jones, creator of Gavin and Stacy.
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With the ‘credit crunch’ being talked-up all the time and the general air of gloom and doom, people are seriously looking to holiday at home this year and many UK resorts have seen a boom in bookings. Why not Barry Island? Because there’s nowhere to stay!
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