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Travel Blogs from Bolton

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

... sluices were opened and closed in the correct sequence.

After that had a meal at the Queen Victoria which is a very old pub, and then a walk around the shops in the old town. The shops are at ground level and also on an upper level. Chester isan old Roman town and has kept it's character throughout hundreds of years. The wall is still in remarkble condition and is almost 90% complete.
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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

... space. He paid his workers well and was the first to give them 6 days paid holiday a year. He took the whole workforce and their families to Blackpool and to Denmark on a trip to see the Danish factory after the merger.

We were gong to spend about 30 minutes there having a drive around, ended up spending 3 hours there. It is a ...