Lancaster

Sunday 17th July 2022

Today’s trip was to the city of Lancaster. Graham’s cousin told us of a good free parking place canal side so we found a space there and walked along the canal into the city centre. We passed a modern conversion of the old packet boat repair building, now flats and almost opposite a community park area that used to be a boat repair yard, where Graham spotted this knitted birds nest.

 

Not fancying any of the city centre fast food choices, we went to The Sir Richard Owen for lunch, which was excellent as well as being nice and cool. Then we walked up the hill to Lancaster Castle. It’s well worth a visit. 

 

A stone mason was working but still found time for a chat. His humour was as evident as his skill. Brenda laughed when she worked out that the ancient text on one of his display pieces was actually his ‘what 3 words’ location, \\\unions.cheer.sculpture, amazing coincidence that it should contain the word sculpture.

 

We went out to the back of the castle and stood on the top of a grassy hill looking down on the River Lune. Then back down the steep hill, through a jumble of streets and buildings of various ages to the city centre again. It was ‘Dino’ weekend in Lancaster and in two locations within the shopping area they had arenas where children could meet live dinosaurs – some of the kids were petrified when the Tyrannosaurus Rex tried to nibble them. By now, the weather was becoming unbearably hot so we really felt sorry for the performers in the pantomime horse style costumes.

 

A wander around the museum was not only interesting but also cooling. Then we returned to the luxury of our air-conditioned car for the run down the A6 to Jannock.

The cabin was very hot – so hot that our cabin clock had ceased working but started again as we cooled the cabin down. at that point it was indicating 36C which only dropped down to 26C at 10pm in the evening. That is 79f in old money.

G&B