I fancied a day out in Bristol as a change from the usual south Wales-based summer holiday day trips. It's a fantastic, vibrant city with lots to do — and it's just an hour's drive from Cardiff so it's really no different from a spin to Swansea, Gower, the Brecon Beacons or any of those other places that spring to mind when you're looking for day trips from the capital city. So I Googled "things to do in Bristol" and came across something called Wake the Tiger.
It had a 4.6 out of 5 rating from more than 3,000 visitors on Google, with the vast majority of visitors giving it full marks. It's described as "the UK's largest immersive art experience and the world's first amazement park".
It sounded interesting and the pictures looked good so I booked a visit for the family. Google Maps took us around the fringes of Bristol city centre and eventually down a road lined with industrial buildings and into a small-ish car park. It didn't look like the UK's largest anything, and I hoped it wasn't going to be a disappointment.
The first sign that it was somewhere different and interesting was the fact that there was an old Ford Ka embedded in the car park concrete, with only its top half visible and mushrooms growing inside. The kids loved it, I was yet to be convinced. Inside, shortly after the standard visitor welcome desk, stood an abandoned office desk with a half-written urgent email visible and an old TV crackling as someone addressed the camera in a state of distress.
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