So the morning after my arrival in Morecambe with an uninvited guest by the name of Bert. Yes the stormy one. I had plans to go to the always entertaining Dickensian Christmas Festival in Ulverston, yes the Dickfest, however Bert had other plans. My plan was to travel up to Morecambe, check into my B&B and then carry on to Ulverston, enjoy the Victorian jollities the head back down to […]
I dropped on a weekend in Morecambe which fitted in perfectly with my plans to visit the Ulverston Dickensian Weekend, the Dickfest. All was well then along came Bert. Yes that Bert, Bert The Storm. My plans had been straight up to Ulverston then head back down into Morecambe, check in and have the rest of the weekend devoted to doing an awful lot of nothing and taking my time […]
Well here’s a photo bombardment from a weekend trip to the Cumbrian town of Maryport. It feels like this year someone has forgotten to put the order in for a Summer. Either that or the delivery guy has left it safely behind a dustbin in the next street or even the next town. Anyway the forecasts for the weekend looked reasonable, if you didn’t look too closely so I put […]
It’s a Saturday and I’m out and about. My destination is Shrewsbury for starters. It’s Chester Races today and the station is starting to pick up that buzz you get when horses, meet alcohol, meet jolly good day out. No doubt I’ll meet some very happy people on my way back. Hope they have a good time, I hope they remember most of it. So that’s the day kicked off. […]
It was a busy day yesterday, a dive up to Newcastle and back, so today’s pace is a lot slower and easier. Faffed around the house a bit first thing, then seeing this big bright yellow thing in the sky, it wasn’t an egg yolk so it must have been the sun. That decided it, I would go out for lunch. I chose Chorley and one of my favourite eating […]
The days are getting colder and shorter and daylight is becoming a rare commodity. That being the case I took myself off last Saturday on a ride up to the Lake District, to Keswick. I wanted a longish trip so I could enjoy the most amount of daylight even if it meant coming back mostly in the dark. I took the train up to Lancaster then picked up the Stagecoach […]
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