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For those of you who haven’t been, Lytham Hall is lovely and well worth a visit. Plus, if you tell us when you’re coming, we’ll even make you a cup of tea if we’re in, as we don’t live far away.

For those of you who haven’t been, Lytham Hall is lovely and well worth a visit. Plus, if you tell us when you’re coming, we’ll even make you a cup of tea if we’re in, as we don’t live far away.
On our way back from visiting family in Worcester, we decided to avoid the M5 and much of the M6 and drive up through a little bit of Herefordshire, and across Shropshire and Cheshire. We aimed to stop in Church Stretton for lunch. Some of you may know that this is the stamping ground of…
Stayed on Tuesday night in an albergue (hostel) attached to a really nice hotel. We had an excellent pilgrims menu in the hotel dining room…. 3 courses, bottle of wine, bottle of water for 12 euros each. The dormitory slept 40, th biggest we had stayed in, but it was quiet and everyone was shattered,…

As it has been cold and wet since Christmas, Neil suggested that the Walking Group try something different and suggested The British Commercial Vehicle Museum at Leyland. For those of you who don’t know, Leyland is south of Preston and is the home of Leyland Trucks and Busses. The company were also very involved in…
Thursday was the last full day of the school holidays that we would have our grandson. After our visit to Speke Hall earlier in the summer, we thought it would make a great day out for all three of us, so, off we went. Despite the weather forecast being a bit iffy, apart from a…
Staveley is a village right on the edge of the Lake District National Park, and is one of those places you mostly drive straight past on your way elsewhere. Yesterday we decided to explore a bit having done a walk a couple of weeks ago on my Walking Weekend. The River kent flows out of…
For those of you unfortunate enough to not know the Lake District, Fairfield Horseshoe is a 12 mile (ish) walk from Rydal Church covering 4 summits in excess of 2500 feet and reaching a high point of 2900 feet or about 885 metres and finishing back in Ambleside on the banks of Windermere. Not much…