26 October 2017 – Trip to Liverpool

Wetherspoons  …..  Walker Art Gallery  …..  Costa for coffee.

And I wasn’t even there! I missed the trip in both senses of the word.

19 October 2017 – Trip to Daresbury

Daresbury is a small village in Cheshire which was the birthplace of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pen name Lewis Carroll).

The village has a Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre and the parish church, All Saints, a Lewis Carroll window, including images from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Due to the wet weather we spent most of our time in the Ring-O-Bells which served excellent food and drinks.

 

12 October 2017 –  Trip to Chester

We had a full day out in Chester – walking the walls, watching a falconry display, walking down to the river and back to the cathedral – we even found time for some shopping after a delicious meal at The Old Queen’s Head where we were given free pork scratchings.

It was a warm day – we were covered in ladybirds and we saw some squirrels in the cathedral gardens. One posed on a metal sculpture as if he was about to give a lecture!

We also looked round the Roman Amphitheatre. All in all we walked more than five miles.

The badger is innocent – Save The Badger!

5 October 2017 –  Trip to Buxton

We discovered that some trains were running even though there was a strike, so we travelled by train as the journey time was much quicker.

          

The highlights were discovering the shopping arcade, returning to Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shop and having a refreshing drink at Hargreaves Edwardian Tea Rooms.