June 8 2025 - Today we have a big travel day. We're leaving Scotland and we will pick up our Canal boat in Trevor Wales on Monday. Normally we could take a train to Chester but they are doing rail work on our line, so we will take a bus then a train then switch to a different train.
There was a bike race going on today in downtown Glasgow, so a lot of the streets were closed just to make travel even a little harder
The train station looked more like a hotel
Once we got to the train station we were told the bus would pick us up a few blocks down
So we had to wait on the street (at least it wasn't raining)
A view of the River Clyde from the bus
pack lunch on the train
pretty views
some people read, instead of looking out the window (or is he sleeping?)
catching the next train
We made it to the Leonardo Hotel and have time to walk around town which is only a block away. Two clock towers in one picture
Chester has a really quaint downtown
lots of shops
the clocktower of all clocktowers
The view of the clocktower from the wall
this place is full of pretty clocktowers
and lots of tudor
next a quick tour of the Chester Cathedral
pretty tile
Jeanene and I split dessert at the Botonist. We ate with little shovels and the desserts were in clay gardening pots
The buildings have a "row" that is one flight up from the street. It has even more shops and restaurants.
June 9, 2025 - Today is the day we rent our canal boat. We have our onboarding at 2:00 so we will do more exploring around Chester until we grab an Uber to Trevor.
Those are pretty geraniums
real cobblestone streets
The Chester Castle from the wall
The wall goes around the original town of Chester.
It's a beautiful two mile walk
The River Dee and the Old Dee Bridge, which was built in the 14th century
Chester Roman Gardens with a collection of Roman artifacts uncovered in Chester
pretty mosaic entering the garden
the wall has steps in places
pretty wall flowers
we can look into people's gardens from the wall
more flowers
The Blue Coat Hospital?
a balloon dog bench
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