SNAPSHOT! Colwyn Bay. A Burger Arrives.

My cheese and bacon burger has arrived, the salad is there just to satisfy my conscience and for appearance sake. I shall be walking it off at some point……..

My cheese and bacon burger has arrived, the salad is there just to satisfy my conscience and for appearance sake. I shall be walking it off at some point……..

It’s the Easter weekend and the holiday has been graced with sunshine. I was beginning to forget that you could have the sky in colours other that dull, life sapping grey. So I have taken myself off to Colwyn Bay on the North Wales coast fos a couple of hours camera wandering. I’m currently sat in Amanda’s Cafe, watching the world go by. I like old school style cafes, there’s […]

Right, waiting for the bus back home from a visit to one of my local markets. Any regular readers of this nonsense I churn out will know how much I like a good market and how important I think they are. Enough rabbiting on from me, have a couple of photos.

I’m in Manchester for a few hours, I fancied a walk around the city plus I need some fresh images for my photo library submissions. Needing food, a constant state for me, I took myself over to Ancoats and the New Islington Marina. This was created out of the network of canals that brought cargoes in and out of Manchester before railways and the iron horse gained the upper hand. […]

To continue the day. I arrived in Chester and decided to take a walk over to Hoole, it’s only a few minute walk from the railway station, it’s an area that was scheduled for demolition but wiser heads prevailed and it’s now an area of interesting independent shops. There’s a couple of places to eat, a personal favorite is The Little Yellow Pig. I got there, found a table and […]

It all started so well. The plan ( make plans and the gods laugh ) was to be a gentle train ride down through Chester, Shrewsbury, the Welsh border and into Hereford. The plan was working until the train I was on reached Shrewsbury, where the station signalling system decided to have a sulk. For about half an hour the train and us sat waiting, almost within touching distance of […]