Fwd: More in Chester

Hello again

We had a few more days in Chester so had a good look around the town. Whilst Dad had his special day at the golf course, I went for a walk out into the suburbs of Chester to find a delicatessen, did a walk around the old town walls and toured the Chester Cathedral. Fabulous Cathedral which was began life in 1092 so rather old. It has been changed and added on but still fantastic. I went on a tour which are usually quite interesting but this time the guide's friends were on the tour so she was a little distracted as they would have a bit of a chat along the way about old friends - I did learn that the rather nice red jacket she was wearing came from Primark!

The other exciting thing for me was to discover a plaque on one of the houses at the back of the cathedral commemorating a Charles Kingsley. He was a Canon of the cathedral and also the author of book called The Water Babies. My mother had this book in her cupboard and it was of the first books I remember reading as a child - a long time ago.

On our last day, we went for a drive to Llangollen in Wales to go for a walk, to see the Pontcysylite Aqueduct and to visit a National Trust house. We do set off rather early to make the most of the day. Beautiful countryside around Llangollen and because it was a fine day, the car park was nearly full when we got there. We went for the walk and managed to get a little lost as we took what we thought was a short cut - we were told there was a slippery bit which I thought best to avoid - but we went the wrong way and so it wasn't a short cut after all. By the time we returned, the town was thumping. People everywhere! We kept going on to see the aqueduct which was built by Thomas Telford. It is huge, very long and very high- quite spectacular- another Unesco site. Again people everywhere checking it out. You could walk across it but we had had enough walking.

Next stop was a house called 'Erddig' some parts of which date from 1680 - and then home to Chester. Next day we drove back to Romsey with a short stop for lunch at Worcester - not a momentous town. I forgot to hunt out some sauce!

And that was that holiday.

Love to all Mum xxx

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