On to Chester
We reached Chester today and moored opposite Telford's Warehouse, now a popular restaurant at the bottom of a staircase of locks. Our passage into Chester was through a narrow channel hewn out of redstone rock, edging around part of the town wall. (We shopped at Tescos here, of interest to a few of you we know, and saw a hotelboat crew struggling to wheel an overflowing trolley to their boat.) The persisitent drizzle did not stop us walking part of the wall, overlooking the River Dee, around Chester racecourse known as the Roodee, and on into the town. We walked the rest of the wall today Sunday, passing ancient Roman towers and gateways enroute and meandered around the attractive black and white timbered covered galleries with smart shops.Chester is a rather interesting city with bags of Roman, Norman, Tudor,and Victorian history.Well worth a second visit.
The town has a large population of pigeons, and the picture above shows the pressure for accommodation, where nests exist in ends of one of the lock gates!
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