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Fwd: More in Chester

Tina McInerney

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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Fwd: Further tales

Tina McInerney

So on to Chester. I have already mentioned the apartment and Liverpool. As usual, we didn't waste a trip or our National Trust membership and on the way to Chester, we visited Lyme Park which is just outside Manchester. The special thing about this large house is that it was where they filmed the scene in "Pride and Prejudice" where Darcy comes out of the lake and meets Lizzie Bennett! The other special thing was that have the oldest missal still in existence. It was printed in 148something and published by William Caxton. You can google Caxton to find out what he did - people of our generation learned about him at school!

Manchester was another day trip by train from Chester and another interesting day. We set off early as usual although late enough for me to grab a takeaway flat white from the best coffee shop in the UK. The owner had been to Melbourne and knew how to make coffee so it received a visit from me everyday. When we arrived in Manchester, I went off to take a walking tour whilst Dad went to visit the Manchester United stadium. The tour was great - led by a very eloquent guide who spoke very well and had some good stories. The highlight was the John Rylands library, another huge Victorian building. It was beautiful inside and, at this time, featured an interesting exhibition such as a fragment of papyrus containing lines from St John's gospel believed to originate from the 1st century. It was a little weird because I thought I would see a whole page but it was only a scrap. They also had a copy of the first folio of Shakespeare's poems - it is his 400th birthday so a lot is going on about this man.

After that, I went to find the People's History Museum which was the story of the working man in Britain. It featured stories about the trade union movement and the ordinary person. Then it was time for tea. I had read about this cafe/tea shop so went off to hunt it down. I found it in this rather seedy street and wondered whether I should bother but I did and it was an interesting place. It was called Richmond Tea Rooms and it was a bit like being down the Rabbit hole in 'Alice in wonderland' - all frilly, floral, chandeliered and pastel. I had the Hatter's afternoon Tea which I thought appropriate. And then I went off to meet Tony at the station and back to Chester.

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