CHESTER. Cats In The Window.

So there you are, minding your own business as you walk down the street,

So there you are, minding your own business as you walk down the street,

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 […]

Chester is a place where history on is writ large, you walk around surrounded by the past’s echoes, from Roman times onwards. Today as I walked along Eastgate Street a dance of the old times went on in the sunshine. Times when the other world was a bit nearer and less hidden away in corners and mists.

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 […]

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 […]

I had hazy, lazy Sunday on my hands and the weather, for once, didn’t have a sulky face on it. Not wanting to waste sunshine or fresh air I set my sights on Chester.