Gazing down into the city

This was my first glimpse inside the city walls into downtown Chester. While those brick homes with the diverse chimney styles were pretty cool I was starting to wonder why we were touring this place.

Day Six (From Wales to the Lake District to Carlisle)

July 18th 2006
One of the few drawbacks of travelling through an English-speaking country is that the TV news is in English. So first thing in the morning I learned that England was in the midst of an all-time heat wave. Temperatures this coming afternoon were expected to be in the mid 90's. And now we were headed deeper into the world that had no clue what "air conditioning" meant. The Welsh don't seem to ... read more

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