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Chester – The Cathedral, the Christmas Market and the City Walls

Chester – The Cathedral, the Christmas Market and the City Walls

Our Chester weekend wasn’t our original plan. We had been due to attend a special family event, but this fell through. However we decided to continue with the idea of a weekend break anyway. Friday Since we didn’t leave Stockport until just after 12pm, we were hungry as soon as we arrived. We made our way over to Chester Cathedral in the hope that they had a cafe. Thankfully there was a refectory in the old monks dining hall so we tucked into…

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Setting foot on Anglesey

Setting foot on Anglesey

This is our fourth visit to North Wales in the last six weeks! You may have gathered that we like this part of the country.  It may come as a surprise to you therefore, to know that until this evening I had never stepped foot on the Isle of Anglesey. So, I have had particular reason to look forward to this weekend. It started inauspiciously however with us driving as far as Warrington before we realised we had forgotten some…

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Colwyn Bay – A Second Day at the Seaside

Colwyn Bay – A Second Day at the Seaside

Following on from our ride along the coast of North Wales yesterday, we tackled a different section today. We again were following the National Cycle route but the weather was not as nice today. We drove to Conwy and parked near the castle them headed out past the smallest house and then along the coast towards the Marina. The route then basically follows the A55 with their being a cycle path which runs parallel or even in some sections on…

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Colwyn Bay – A Day at the Seaside

Colwyn Bay – A Day at the Seaside

One of the best cycle routes in the UK has to be the coastal cycle path along the North Wales coast (i.e. sections of National Cycle Network routes 5 & 8). In our last post I mentioned cycling a section of the NCN from Rhyl to Bangor. Unfortunately Sarah couldn’t join us on that ride and hasn’t cycled most of it before. Since it is such a great ride Sarah and I decided to correct that, and cycle between Prestatyn and Caernarfon over…

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