A Mini Guide

The Roman City of
Chester - Cheshire - England

Manchester Airport, at 7:30am on a wet, Friday morning is not the place to be told that your flight is delayed so much that it has yet to leave your destination! On the basis that said destination was 8 hours flying time away it fell to me to entertain my family for at least a day.

As a spotty yoof I had briefly worked in Ellsmere Port and the shipyards of the Mersey, during a particularly cold January, and had very vague memories that Chester was 'quite nice'.

"OK! Let's go!" - "Where to?"

The Roman city of Chester!

It's just down the road!"

Now I have a sceptical family and in the recent past I had indicated that Manchester Airport was 'just up the road' from Gatwick Airport. 'Just down the road' was not too well received. I seem to remember 'Oh yeah?' was the response.

"No! 'Tis true, up onto the M56 - turn west and it's about 30 minutes away."

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