talk about whistle stop! We drove up to the Lake District via the famous aquaduct built by Thomas Telford. What a spectacle - a stag party, dessed as pirates, had hired a boat for the weekend and amused themselves-and us- playing narrow boats. Then off to Ambleside, a pretty village on Lake Windermere, where we spent two nights in a most comfy b and b. We took a boat ride or two, walked 4 miles along the lake, ate chips by the lake in the sunset...........then set off for home via the Bluebird exhibition and Chester, where we stopped to pick up a hire car for Sue and Steve and run the 2 miles round the city walls. Reaching Meifod we stopped for tea at Mum and dad's, where Uncle Frank, Auntie Margaret, Martin, Vikki, Sarah
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