Purple Hotel Shrewsbury

... , We decided to bite the bullet and hire a car as this was a quicker way of getting around we based ourselves at the Purple hotel in Shrewsbury and got a really good deal £50 a night including a full breakfast not bad. To save heart ache and arguments we ...

... no sign of the Redstart and after about 40 minutes we gave up because high tide was due and with it a better chance of Purple Sandpipers at Rhos-on-Sea. The birds were skittish, probably because the swell was quite big so the sea wall was being battered ...

... a tea towel showing the kings and queens of England. The rain continued to drizzle down as I navigated the winding road towards Shrewsbury. I had planned to find lodgings in this rather large and grey city but, to my growing horror, every bed and ...