Having got the bit between his teeth, Simon wanted to finish the towpath with the final section into Sowerby Bridge.. This was a direct repeat of a trip from the classic era in January 1980. We drove to Hebden Bridge, stopping at Nutty's Butty's along the way. We parked at Hebden Bridge station. We picked up where we left off , spotting a Beatles fan moored up there. Where you have to cross the main road to rejoin the towpath between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd , there's now a droll sign. There's now some fancy ca...
For our next weekend away, we chose the Campanile Hotel, Runcorn. Warnings of a storm over the weekend overshadowed it. The journey there was uneventful and we found the hotel without too much trouble. Simon had some chips and I had some ice cream in the restaurant before we turned in for the night. In the morning the weather was pretty wild and we ran across to the main building for breakfast. After that we raced across to the station for a train to Chester. Ours was one of the few trains still running. We huddled in the waiting room until the last minute. By the time got to Chester, the weather had calmed down considerably and there were no delays to our train to Rhyl. We caught the bus to Rhuddlan but when we got to the castle it had been closed due to the weather conditions. this seemed like a disaster but I had noted the bus was going on to Denbigh. I found a number for the castle there and got confirmation it was still open so we mov...
Julie had booked a weekend away at Green View Lodges, Welton so I presented Simon with some options and he selected filming some nearby trigs. The footage will appear here in due course. We went into Wigton for lunch at La Barista restaurant. In the afternoon, we covered another trig and also a pele tower near Mealsgate. The footage will appear here in due course. We returned to a footpath near our first trig because I realised I'd left my walking pole there. I did manage to retrieve it. We went into Dalston to do some shopping before returning to the lodge.
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