Jude was up bright and early this morning to visit Tony and the collection of eggs in the chook shed.  She came back all enlightened and enthused!!  While she was talking to Tony he said that a visit to Chester was a must.  It is one of the UK’s oldest towns, has the most of any city wall remaining.

So, we went off to Chester for the day.  Tony suggested we use the Park & Ride to get into town as parking was difficult and expensive.  We drove up the highway and spotted the Park & Drive a couple of miles out of Chester.  Quite an experience!  You can park your car and two people can ride the bus to and from the city for 2 pound each.

We got off the bus in the centre of town and decided to walk the City Wall first, about 2 ½ miles (or just over 4 Km).  It was a great walk, we saw the River Dee, a canal, an old castle, the race track and lots of old buildings.  Having done the wall, we had a little wander through the town.

Had some lunch in a little café.  As we left, Jude spotted the Library and couldn’t resist going in to use Ancestry to see if Edmund Smith worked for the WAGR.  As far as we could see, he didn’t, but we did find quite a few electoral role entries for him that might shed some light on his life in Perth.

And walked around the town some more.  We went into the Roman Cathedral.  What a huge building with many nooks and crannies’, very much a business to raise funds for the church.  Chester is probably the most interesting town we have been to and probably the oldest with more old buildings and historic stuff around.

We had some afternoon tea in another little café and headed to the bus stop to catch our Park & Ride bus back to the car and drove to the local supermarket to get some more fresh food then home about 1645.