Cranage Hall

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Caribener Selection - The DMM BOA Big Gran Daddy!

A travel blog entry by matt.taylor

A selection of large and small caribiners are required on my trip and my order has been placed for this - with room for multiple rigging knots this will no doubt see plenty of use towards the summit attempt!

'having pitched the Big Boa as the ‘Big Daddy’ of lockers we must go one further with this beefed ...

Julbo Explorer White Cameleon

A travel blog entry by matt.taylor

Julbo’s top-of-the-line mountaineering sunglass, the Explorer is designed to perform superiorly in high altitude environments, where mountaineers are overly susceptible to eye damage from sun and reflections.

Lenses: for protection from
high-altitude sunlight, Explorer is available with either the Camel
polarized, photochromic, anti-fog lens; the glass Alt Arc 4 lens; or the
Spectron 4 lens.
Camel� ...

Chester

A travel blog entry by jayton

... his wife was operating the sluices and the gates. It looked like hard work as they were going up a "staircase" lock and had to fill the top lock first, then fill the next lock down using the same water, then fill the top lock again when they had got the boat into it. Apparently going down is a bit easier. It was interesting to see the steps they had to go through to make sure that all the ...

Ellesmere

A travel blog entry by jayton

Back down the motorway on Thursday to Ellesmere Port where the Waterways museum is. I guess you have to like boats, especially narrow boats, to enjoy a day out here. Just like yeaterday the weather was kind n the morning, but by 3.30 it was getting dark and cold.

still, we had a good look around the museum and spent about three hours there. Lots of things to see and in summer there are boat trips up the canal.

A good day out.
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A clean day out

A travel blog entry by jayton

... Sunlight Soap. Mr Lever became Lord something and his company merged with a Danish company to became one of the largest in the world, Unilever.

He built Port Sunlight as housing for his workers and they were the best their was at that time. Hot and cold water, large and comfortable. The village had a swimming pool, community halls and lots ...