Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
Today we were off to scout out Macclesfield and Bollington which we didn't know. Nice to see a traditional artist in the station.... Macclesfield was impressive in its way, and again the people were super friendly. It was also very hilly.... Unfortunately at the end of the day hardly anything nice comes up here in our price range....we then caught the bus to nearby Bollington which we had just skirted on a previous occasion and found it to be a lovely, hilly village with views, and its fair share of pubs and restaurants... Whilst in Bollington we took the opportunity to call on a friend of mine from University, also a book dealer, George Longden, and we had a nice cup of tea and a chat with him and his wife. He was kind enough to give me one of the books he has written on the area. Again Bollington, although terrific in many ways, just like a pretty Derbyshire village (it is on the borders of Derbyshire and Cheshire), is probably outside our price range. Never mind. Back at our place on Salford Quays we enjoyed walking though the night-scape of Media City..... Next day we walked past the Helly Hansen watersports centre to The Lowry ....where we spent a pleasant hour or two.... it's a great gallery and lots of social history to pick up whilst you're there... The next part of our trip was to the Ribble Valley where we stayed in a lovely little cottage in Chatburn, just outside Clitheroe. Our two 'targets', as it were, were Whalley and Clitheroe. First Whalley. A delightful place with everything you could want. Apart from delis, shops, restaurants, and much else, the old church is certainly worth a visit.... Whalley also has one of the nicest bus stations I have ever come across.....unbelievably this is it - a beautiful large round garden with bus stops on its circumference..... Here's the view back across to town.... Everywhere in Whalley you were surrounded by countryside and hills And of course one of the major attractions is Whalley Abbey One of the antique shops in Whalley had a marvellous pink aeroplane in the window....I couldn't resist taking a picture. Our conclusion? We would absolutely love to live here, but yet again hardly anything in our price range. This seems to be a recurring theme! Back in Clitheroe who could not like Holmes Mill - a hotel, beer hall, deli, food store, restaurant, cinema and goodness knows what else.... The horseshoe shaped bar is reputedly the longest in the country...they certainly kept a goodly range of real ales....very pleasing! On one of our days we had a property to see in Wilpshire which is to the South of Ribble Valley....beautiful countryside... but the hotel was closed, and it didn't seem there were many, if any, facilities.....
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