CHESTER. A Day With a Toastie And Some Beer.

It’s never a good thing to let a day go to waste, even if you don’t at the end do a great lot with it.

It’s never a good thing to let a day go to waste, even if you don’t at the end do a great lot with it.

I think I might need to explain the title.Chester is a fairly frequent destination for me, not too frequent to make myself bored with it but enough just to keep in touch with what’s going on. Drifting across the social media I noticed that a favourite eating place of mine, The Little Yellow Pig in Hoole Village has now opened an outlet in the city centre on Godstall Lane, I […]

The end of March approaches, the time when the clocks will spring forward and all will be warm and sunny. Well that’s the plan. I took another trip up to the Lake District a couple of weekends back, I’m getting back into training for days out for when the good times return. Currently Winter has a less than friendly grip on things at the moment making the days a little […]

The days are inching longer with all the grace and elegance of a broken tooth being pulled. That said it’s still not “enjoyable” travelling weather, some days may be brighter but someone is still pressing the OFF switch about 6 pm. Anyway, as I’d see enough of the inside of my front door this week I decided to chance my luck with a train trip out along the North Wales […]

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 […]

Right, when last we spoke I was leaving Chorley and heading to Lancaster. Well I made it there, it was still raining by the way, and after a walk in the rain I decided to head out to Morecambe and sea the sea. It’s only a short journey out to Morecambe, I have a real affection for the place even though it’s looking a bit threadbare in places. Hopefully the […]