SHEFFIELD. Saturday Evening By The Canal.

It was a comfortably warm Saturday evening and I’d been in Sheffield since a little after nine am.

It was a comfortably warm Saturday evening and I’d been in Sheffield since a little after nine am.

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

Okay, made it to Barrow around the top of Morecambe Bay, there was an hour or so before the next train onwards so that was a perfect excuse for a brisk walk down into town and find a coffee and a quick bite to eat. I had a look around the market, the building bis one of those 60’s/70’s shoe boxes that were all the rage but don’t age well. […]

Today I will be mostly travelling through Cumbria. At the moment I’m on the glorious section that runs along the coast through Grange over Sands ( like it says above ) to Barrow. The stretch after that will be up the coast to Workington and then across by bus to Penrith and back down to Lancaster. All of this is on the Northern Rail Lakes DayRanger, recommended if you want […]