Walking

We have spent this week between Middlewich and Anderton, cruising 7.5 miles on Monday to get to Anderton, On Tuesday walked through Marbury Park before a Storm that evening. We have never heard thunder like it, probably being in a tin box on water increased our perception of it?

On Wednesday we turned around back towards Middlewich, but didn’t get far, only a couple of miles to Marston, and then more walks around Neumann’s Flash & Ashton’s Flash (a Flash is a big pond, which appears to be something to do with the old salt works there). Lots of good paths and bird hides, although one was significantly plagued by midges!

Also walked in to Northwich, really good footpaths, well maintained and signposted. In Northwich we saw the Local Fire Brigade trying to rescue something (??) from a roof top using a large crane – it didn’t look successful. Northwich is a mix of old timber buildings and new shops, looks like a lot of money has been spent recently upgrading the town. We ate our sandwiches in an area which had been beautifully hard landscaped, but had yet to have any plants added!

On Saturday we turned around again to head back to Anderton, to use the facilities, as they are better/easier than the ones in Middlewich. Rewarded with our first glimpse of a kingfisher as we motored alongside Marbury Country Park again.

On Sunday we had another long walk along the Trent & Mersey Canal (past Anderton) down on to the Weaver Navigation (which connects with the Anderton Boat Lift), a lovely walk and we saw a couple of great crested grebes.

Have spent the week dodging the weather, have not got too wet, but the waterproofs are always close at hand.

We understand that not everybody who reads this blog has access to Instagram, so we’ll include all of this week’s Instagram phots at the bottom of this blog. (we try to do a photo each day, some days are easier than other)