Saturday 25th July

Sunshine! Our friends left early for the train to Crewe and we took a guided walk around Chester with a most informative and amusing guide. Peggy Grimshaw knows lots about Chester, and is closely associated with the Civic Trust. She also seems to know lots of people. We also visited the Roman amphitheatre, walked along the river Dee, climbed the tower in the Cathedral and attended evensong (remembering that it is 16 years since we were at St. George's Windsor at least once a week to hear Nigel sing).

The tower is not strong enough to hold the original bells so they are now housed in a 1970's bell tower in the grounds - it looks better from above than on the ground!

In the original bell tower there is still the curfew bell which is rung each night about 9pm. All Welshmen had to have left the city by then. Luckily it doesn't apply now.

Our informative guide had told us about the various buildings which had Roman remains in their basements. This hypocaust is in 'Spud U Like'

Tomorrow's forecast is not good so we made the most of the sunshine today for sightseeing.