August 2023. Chester.
Have some tourist photos before the pub onslaught.
With Mrs RM on conference calls with Eindhoven, and not really fancying the glamour of a night in a car park overnighter, I set off for the Little Roodee.
Chester’s car park by the race course is an ideal spot for motorhomes and campervans, £5 for an overnight stay, £13 for longer, bang on the walls. It’s the blue marker below;
the orange marker over the bridge shows a free space, but that one is less secure AND is virtually in Wales, so you take your own choice.
Chester is at the end of the Merseyrail network I was going to use to launch a frantic assault on Cheshire and Merseyside GBG, and once again try to repair relations with the good burgers of Chester whose wall I’d insulted last time out.
Not only is the wall impressive, the parks are also great,
though I feel I may have done the clock to death,
and a man can get overwhelmed by black and white timber.
There’ll only be one Chester pub to report on, and sadly it won’t be the Queen,
the (presumably) ornate bar at the hotel facing the station.
Our Big Merseyside Day Out will start with a rather more modest boozer.
retiredmartin 
“£5 for an overnight stay”.
That’s exactly what I paid three months ago for a pint of Lees Bitter in the Boathouse but I did have a window seat for seeing the fish in the Dee.
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Such a pretty city. Odd that it always seems to be contrasted with York as if it isn’t quite as nice. At least in the guidebooks I read…
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Did you know you can get the bus to Mold, from outside the Queens Hotel?
Do they still have the Spudu Like in Chester? I once had a date there with a man from Runcorn
I was told you gave pension and lifestyle advice for pensions. When do you do that please? It’s the only reason I’m here, I don’t drink alcohol.
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Blimey.
I once had a date at a spudulike in St Albans with Mrs RM. I miss them.
I wouldn’t ever give pension advice, but I doubt anyone reading this blog will live beyond 75 so I’d be tempted to cash your pension in and spend it on Chinese takeaways.
Hope that helps.
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Spudulike was a mainstay in my student days. Spud with cheese, onion and garlic butter. We were living the dream in those days.
Pension advice: work for a public sector undertaking for years then jack it in. Worked for me.
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Controversial pension advice there, Bill.
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I really need to revisit Mold you know.
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There’s a Polly’s Social opening in Mold in April in case that justifies a visit.
https://valeofclwyd.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php?id=17837
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No need for a reason to visit the beautiful Vale of Clwyd !
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You missed a sitter here, Martin.
What’s more, there’s more good advice for the young in the first two lines of this song than in the whole of Bob Dylan’s repertoire:
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Does Bob give any advice?
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“Keep a clean nose, watch the plainclothes · You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows .”
Subterranean Homesick Blues -3rd Verse.
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I thought the very same Paul.
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I correct myself a bit, actually it was “Don’t follow leaders, and watch the parking meters” for me
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