46 Sunday 20 December Greenhalgh Castle

The trip was moved to Sunday due to the early kick-off of the Rochdale game. Simon chose to visit another castle to make a video. First though, we had to re-visit Clitheroe to exchange a faulty CD from the week before. We called at the corner shop in Stubbins for some breakfast. After we'd parked up, Simon made a quick nostalgic visit to the little playpark we'd been to in previous years.
The guy at the record shop was fine with us making an exchange. We then returned to the car and drove to Garstang. By this time, it was lunchtime and we went looking for something to eat. Simon's now at an age where lingerie shops are interesting !
We found a cafe which was doing takeaways so we bought some lunch there ( a bit pricey ) and took it back to the car to eat.
We were then ready to set off on our walk to the castle.
Our video can be found here Our walk took us beyond the castle through some marshy fields before following a disused railway and finally the river Wyre back to Garstang, enjoying some nice sunsets
Back at the car, we noticed the car parked next to us had steamed up windows. As I sat on the boot edge to take my boots off, the young couple inside quickly disentangled themselves and drove off ! We then set off for home.

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