2025-feb

A cold wind & showers… A day for museums! The Grosvenor Museum is the local town museum, full of bits of Roman and of schoolchildren with worksheets. There was also a room of rather nice silver pieces, and the usual random selection of portraits. Attached at the back is a “period house”, with each room Read more

Today was again a bright & breezy day… There are a number of geocache trails around the city, which always highlight interesting titbits of local knowledge. We started off by heading across the river to find the shrine to Minerva, carved into the bedrock in a local park. We ambled round & gawped at the Read more

The weather was much better today – bright but breezy – we could see Wales while having breakfast! We booked ourselves onto a walking tour of the town. It’s an excellent way to get some background info about a place, and there were only four of us.  We hopped from period to period as we Read more

The trains were behaving particularly well, and we got into Chester exactly at 1pm. Unfortunately the weather had worsened as we went further west, and it was wet & blustery, and not very warm, but only a 10 minute walk to our apartment. The apartment is smart and comfortable, with views of the canal basin Read more