A Party and a Road Trip to Chester, Suffolk and Cheshire - 20th December 2015

There's a party round Rachel's, then on the following day we're off on day one of a two-day amble to Dublin, via a Premier Inn near Chester.

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A crowded party room

A crowded party room

A table heaped with party food

Harry roams around

Harry looks up

Isobel gets a go of Bob, the fluffy cat

Fred at Corley Services on the M6

Harry and Isobel get some dirty road food

Corley link bridge probably looked modern once

Traffic thunders by on the M6

The almost derelict and forgotten link bridge

The M6 and Corley Services

There's mould and all sorts going on

The link bridge from outside

Fred poses at a window

Fred tries a ride out

Isobel looks over by some non-standard phone boxes

Fred waves as he bounces around

The boys bounce around

The boys just love to mess around in hotel beds

Some sort of making occurs

The boys slurp on slushies

Harry in the Premier Inn restaurant

Fred and Isobel

Corridors like every other Premier Inn

Twisty stairs

The gang heads off to breakfast

Sunrise over Chester

Gabes eats a pastry

The boys run around near the exit

There's a little time to do some more bed bouncing

A crennelated wall

We trundle up some wet stairs into Chester

Fred and Isobel wander up Grosvenor Street

A Chester timbered building

Some stone gargoyles

Harry and Fred come down the stairs

Up above street level, the boys run around

The upstairs pavement on Grosvenor Street

Fred does some drawing

Grosvenor Street and a pair of K6 phone boxes

A poster of David Dockney in the style of Hitler

Harry points at stuff

A Chester shopping arcade

Hanging around outside the optician's

A Christmas tree made up of huge silver balls

Fred and Harry do some drawing

Reflections in silver baubles

An old woman comes to see the boys drawing

Fred and his book

The top end of Grosvenor Street

Walking on wet flagstones

A giant elf is handing out mysterious glasses

Isobel at a sweet stall in the indoor market

Fred does more drawing as we buy Cheshire cheese

Harry and Fred look at a Lego frieze of Chester

And the walls came tumbling down

Chester indoor market

A thousand buttons

A Chester button stall

More details in the Lego Chester

The Lego version of Grosvenor Street

Fruit and Veg stalls in Chester market

A Christmas Tree display in Chester Cathedral

Massive Victorian radial-fin radiator

An old depiction of Moses

The nave of Chester Catherdral

Fred lights a votive candle

Striking modern stained glass

Dickens' A Christmas Carol in model form

The Three Wise Men

Chester Cathedral's Lego version of itself

Fred and Harry buy some bricks to contribute

The Lego Chester Cathedral

The cathedral organ

The mystery of the free glasses is revealed

Harry tries his glasses on

More Christmas trees in the cloisters

A cool beer-can bauble

The cathedral refectory

Harry adds to his book

Fred and Isobel in the Refectory

A heaving Eastgate, and the Eastgate Clock