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Macclesfield Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Macclesfield, United Kingdom
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In the Beginning.....
This is a top pick! Well this is the beginning of a new chapter of my life. I have left behind a successful career to fulfill this life long ambition . You may ask what ambition ? Well, I always wanted to explore the world, I've left it until the age of 28 to begin my ...
HOME! - Day 293
This is a top pick! 5 continents, 21 countries, 20 capital cities, 10 mountains conquered, 32 UNESCO world heritage sites visited, 6 man-made and natural wonders of the world ticked off, countless national parks, over 130 different guesthouses and hotels, 45 islands, 37 ...
8 days to go!
This is a top pick! Dean - Only 8 days to go before we head out to Anchorage, Alaska! I've already been off work for one week (I finished on Friday 26th May), Alex finished last Friday (Friday 2nd June). Still a few things to do before we fly but we should get it all done ...
Back Home
This is a top pick! ... train from Euston due to the scramble across London on the trains and tubes but managed to get the next train back to Macclesfield. I have 6 days at home before phase 2 of my travels begin next Saturday with a flight to Mumbai and the wonderful ...
Los Angles to London then HOME! - Day 292
This is a top pick! A 10 hour night flight to LA from Nadi. Once in LA I had a mad scramble to get through the nightmare that is, US immigration and customs. Dropped my bags off, then changed terminal where I just made my second flight from LAX to London, which is another ...
Weekend With Family Peoples
Uncle Bill (UB) picked me up from the Williams Farm and I'm now lounging around a different house, but just for the weekend. It's cool to catch up with UB, Auntie Polly, Cuz's Georgia and Olivia. These peeps is my only family outside of ...
Hero of the Hour: Alistair Yates
... a strengthening head-wind, massive hills and night-time fast approaching, Alistair and Alan were forced to stop a little short of Macclesfield. Jason McAteer took Alistair home for a well-deserved rest, and ferried Alan the remaining 20 miles to the ...
Just off out for a while...
Hey everybody. This is just a quick test to make sure that you can all see the blog OK. Hopefully you can and that is fine and dandy. Just about to leave Rainow and hope to kick this blog into action in Thailand when we arrive on 18th October. Plan ...
Over the Pennines
... . Check in to Travel Lodge which is so so, get what you pay for I suppose and for £10 cant complain. We head in to Macclesfield but cant find a single thing open. So head up to Bollington and find a nice pub for dinner, The cock and Pheasant. I had ...
The ups and downs of Macclesfield
... did ask a man who I thought might know and sure enough, he did and he gave me further directions. I've seen bits of Macclesfield I didn't know existed. Picked some elderflower on the way back but will need some more to make next batch of cordial. Will pop ...
We're all going on a Winter Holiday.......
... to bed. On Wednesday we set of to Bollington to walk the Middleton Way. This was the railway between Marple and Macclesfield and had a station at Higher Poynton. It closed in 1970 as part of Beaverbrooks Great Train Robbery. ...
Going up in the world
Monday 11th 5 miles 12 locks To round off the day yesterday, I was just putting the hatch covers down when I heard the distinctive sound of the coal boat coming. I looked out and sure enough I could see it coming towards us. I told Bryan and he came out ...
The return of the Wanderer!
15 months ago I sat at this very computer and wrote the first of these blogs. 42 of them later, and here I find myself once again, trying to figure out how I should some up all that has passed between. Many of the people on ...
Back in Macc
We reminisced away a few hours or so with Richard at St Dunstan's in Langley. We had worked up quite a thirst with a trek up Tegg's Nose for old time's sake. What we remembered as being a quite challenging walk on our first attempt 3 years earlier now ...
Preparation
Still nearly 2 months to go before departure but almost everything is ready for our first leg. We have tickets for all our flight sectors (£1080 x 2), travel insurance, a bargain at £280 for the pair of us, new digital cameras ...
The big day arrives!
So, here we are. The day of departure has arrived. After much organising, various parties, tons of idle daydreaming, and a whole move of house, I am finally ready to depart our cold shores. This morning already, I have managed to lock myself out ...
Macclesfield
stair. The castle was fab!! Thursday 24th August 1972 - Macclesfield In some of the counties like Staffordshire the appearance of the country changes all together. Separating the paddocks were stone walls where all the stones are just wedged in. All of a ...
Langley, Where the Lane Ends
Our home for the next 3 or 4 months is the beautifully renovated townhouse in the quaint little village of Langley near Macclesfield in Cheshire. Langley's claim to fame as the village of 'the quiet lane' is quite appropriate. And at the end of that lane ...
Touristy Type Travel
... Sorry I haven't written for a while but I am now in the UK! We are living in an area just out of Macclesfield (near Manchester) called Langley. Langley in so small and beautiful, just like you would imagine a little English village with stone walls, ...
Oct 11, 2010
Farewell 'the Dunnie'
Just a super quickie this morning to lament at the sad leaving of lovely Langley. The highlight of the week was Wednesday night where we were invited to a semi impromptu jam session come Irish-folk-music-singalong at the local. I can't describe ...
Exploring up Tegg's Nose
You've got to admire the English and their sense of humour. Maybe its just ours, but the place names never cease to amuse us. A couple of very local examples here are Tegg's Nose (our local hill), Puss Bank (the name of a school nearby), Lyme Green (not ...
Macclesfield Canal
Still pouring with rain - Hood up and down for the bridges once more. Passed a house with two helicopters in back garden (Coleen hanging washing out) What a pad! Steady cruise today to top of locks down to Congleton. Moored up at BW services ...
Top of Bosley Locks
... Great down the flight - all locks full for us. Really beautiful scenery all way down. Would thoroughly recommend the Macclesfield. Pulled in at Congleton after seeing a sign for shops. Moored at Queens Arms where we thought we ...
Preparations
So: Having a friend that I said I'd visit move out to Germany at the start of the year, that seemed like a perfect thing to make an effort for! Having booked my plane tickets ages ago on a night where I'd had a few drinks - oops, I'd managed to ...
Homeward bound
We planned to stock up on a few essential before catching then train (if that is what you do on the Channel Tunnel). We drove to Cite Europe, the massive shopping centre by the Channel Tunnel, to stock up on beer, wine, cheese and maybe the odd globe ...
Okay, getting a little scared now....
Hmmm, Right, Here is my first of hopefully many blogs about my travelling shananigans. Wanted to start a blog for a long time, and this felt like the perfect opportunity. Enjoy, or dont - whatever takes your fancy. So in approximately 45 mins it ...
Heading back home
Saturday 21st September 2012 Ballachulish-Macclesfield Daily total: 322 miles We woke this morning to clear blue skies, the first fully cloudless day of the trip and typically the day in which we leave for home. However the hotel staff tried to soften ...
Football Heaven and Nuclear Nightmares.
... real, round-ball football that is. Sure I've been to see a Premier League game and that was great; I've been to see Macclesfield Town avoid relegation from the bottom division on the last match of the season too and that was great. But what I like though ...
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