Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff, Wales, is named after everyone’s favourite Children’s author Roald Dahl who was born here in the Capital, and the word “plass”, meaning “plaza”, is a nod to his parent’s Norwegian origins. If you’re a fan of Doctor Who or the Torchwood spin-off, then you’ll immediately recognise this as being the location of a spatio-temporal rift in time1. At the north end of the plaza stands a 21m tall water fountain (which hides the entrance to the secret Torchwood underground cave). The south-east of the Plaza is home to the National Assembly for Wales, the Senedd. We looked [...]

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