This year marked the return of the annual Royal Geographical Society (RGS) to Wales for the first time in 25 years, hosted by our Geography and Planning department at Cardiff University. It is possibly the largest Geography conference in the UK, attracting more than 1700 researchers and practitioners and at times running more than 30 parallel sessions in a single two-hour time slot with typically between four and six papers presented in each session! Several academic journals and research groups use this conference as an opportunity to hold their annual meetings and events – needless to say, we were spoiled for choice at almost every moment of the day. Many of my colleagues at PLACE were actively involved in the conference. Despite only having arrived this month to Cardiff, I was lucky…