Chester Zoo

In my last post I talked about planning our trip to York last weekend. In the process of planning, we discovered that booking a train at the last minute leads to very expensive fares. It was about 40 pounds round trip, and this was including our student discount. Though seeing the Viking Festival would have been pretty neat, we decided to …

We arrived early evening and the rain was tipping down but this certainly didn't dampen down Chester's wow factor.

We were staying in (another) Travelodge and after the last I wasn't expecting much but after a 10 minute walk I was pleasantly suprised. The hotel was situated opposite the Roman Amphitheatre and about 20 steps from the …

... that let us do all of these things. We left Aigburth at about 10 in the morning and after making one train connection arrived in chester around 11. The train station was larger than any of the others we had been in, and this makes sense because it's the ...

... , there being 62 very colourful model rhinoceros placed all around town.  It appears they have something to do with Chester's world class standard zoo.  At the end of October the models will be auctioned off to raise money to save the rhinos in ...

... entertaining enough but couldn't afford taxi back so had a rather long and cold walk back to the hotel. I would still like to visit Chester zoo or do the Anderton Boat lift on a canal barge but I haven't the money for eating out let alone enjoying any ...

... a newspaper over their head... Logic says they will get wet eventually, but at least it works for a little while...! After the zoo we drove straight back to Yatton. Lucky we were gog south, as there was an incident on the northbound carriageway, and ...

... . She showed me around and I saw one of my american cousins, a Spectacled Bear, he is so much taller than me. The Zoo Chester Zoo is home to 7,000 animals of 400 different species. Conservation is at the heart of the Zoo and around half of these species ...

... to the day again! After about an hour drive, we arrived at the location of our day’s activities – Chester Zoo. Why Chester Zoo you ask – Peach has sponsored the Rothschild Giraffe family that live at the zoo.  She gets her name ...

... our new relaxing routine of breakfast, tea, and reading papers. It was a cold day outside, but no rain. We headed off to the Chester Zoo, one of UK's biggest zoos and great on conservation for animals. It was huge and the kids got to see the new ...

... disgrace but the at the other end of the scale extremely good (Isle of Wight zoo being a very good example). Chester Zoo?  Exceptional. I don't know what acreage they cover but the place is huge.  We spent 6 hours there, stopped for ...