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Travel Blogs from Holmes Chapel
Caribener Selection - The DMM BOA Big Gran Daddy!
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
... Photochromic + antifog treatment. Protection is progressive from Cat. 3 to 4 according to sunlight.
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The highest mountains and extreme conditions bring out the best in these sunglasses that have been developed in collaboration with the elite climbing school in Chamonix.
The Explorer takes glacier sunglasses to the next level: ...
Chester
... 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
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
On Wednesday we set off to Port Sunlight and Ellesmere Port.
If you know the history of the Lever Company you will know that it made soap. If you don't look it up on Google as it is a real success story. William Lever started making soap out of palm oil instead of animal fat and it was so popular he became an extremely wealthy man. It was ...
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- Restaurant
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking