Right I’m on the last ish leg of the journey home, only a glacier and a pack of wild bears to negotiate. (Okay I exaggerated about the glacier….) I’m currently on Chester station, it’s Eater Sunday tomorrow so the run down of services is more marked than usual. Somewhere on platform 7 a well refreshed gentleman is still singing about the merits of his football club at full volume. There’s […]
I’m off out and on my way to Chester for a couple of hours camera related wandering and rain shower avoiding. The first leg of my route takes me through Earlestown. It’s a Saturday and that means Flea Market day. As is the way with open air events the weather is the big deciding factor and today is just a bit wet and windy so things are a bit sparcer […]
Woodside landing stage and the Pier Head facing one another across the Mersey.
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 […]
Rivington on the West Pennine Moors is an area I like to visit ( I direct you to previous blog posts for evidence of this ) . It’s criss crossed by a spidery web of twisting roads and lanes that attract riders of the motorized and unmotorized variety. Weekends are popular for these meet ups, the Top Barn especially, a three B’s kind of thing, a Bike, a Burger and […]
So you’re traveling to meet up with a friend in Liverpool, so you check the train times and make your plans. But when you get to the station the train you wanted has mysteriously vanished off the arrivals. The next one is in 45mins. It’s cold so do you A. Wait freezing on the station? Or B. Go somewhere warm and have a coffee? Guess which one I picked……… I […]
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