EDINBURGH. Assembly Close.

Edinburgh is a city I visit whenever the chance comes along
When the days are longer and the weather kinder I like to take a trip out to Chester, the walled city hard by the Welsh Border.
It was an unpromising day weather wise and it stayed that way. I risked a journey out, the trains were on strike so I opted for a bus journey out to Southport and back. There were some hardy souls out, dodging the showers, wrapped up warm. I’m always on the lookout for different places to enjoy a coffee and watch the world go by, I hadn’t tried Heimat on Wesley […]
Right, I’d had my lunch, it was time to wobble onwards and walk off, or at least try to, my Welsh Rarebit. Beaumaris is a compact town, facing out across the Menai Straits to Bangor and the mainland of Wales. While it might be small it does reward with a mixture of corners and enterprises worth looking out for. There will be links etc at the bottom. The close set […]
I took a ride over to Chorley yesterday evening, it was the second night of the always entertaining Chorley Live music event, where shops, pubs and squares become venues for live music and the spoken word. It’s a great night out and has a fixed place on my calendar. There’s a mix of music types and performance, just get your entry wristband, it’s £5 and covers both nights Some Links […]
One of the delights of a walk around Manchester on a day’s street photography mission is watching the Metrolink trams hustling and bustling away through the streets. The tram system now covers roughly 98 miles or so, from up near the Pennines at Oldham and Shaw & Crompton then down to leafy Disdsbury with a side step out to Manchester Airport. They are large machines but can be oddly quiet […]