Chester

we headed on east on a bigger highway ... and then the roadway sign advised that there was an accident. a quick turn and we were on a smaller country road ....

we got hungry and looked around for a restaurant in some of the smaller towns - pubs were too expensive and not very inviting and we just carried on and on til we got to Chester. By now Les is starving and not in the best of moods. I, however, have realized that Chester is fabulous - full of Roman ruins everywhere and the buildings are all so stylish and olde olde

olddddddddddddddddddde. I am in heaven. We park and he pouts but I am trudging along since we only have 40 minutes... believe me, we hustled and i got to see the roman gardens and the roman wall and the roman amphitheater and roman buildings and a roman musician who was playing the most gorgeous violin music in the street (who knows if he was roman but my imagination was running wild !!) You will notice that in the roman garden picture, I am in the garden and Les is on the wall !!!! I was too happy for him to pout too long, it was contagious and he had found the amphitheater for me !!

Our 40 min up, we left and on the road found a costa roadside stop and had some excellent indian food...it wasn't too spicy (I was happy, Les wanted more spice)and it was tasty.

driving on - happier with full tummies - we headed south to Nottingham - robinhood country and the city where we intended to spend Easter with Les's nephews... the ride was long (all told 12 hours) and we were tired at the end but quite happy with such a fun day. We pulled into a pub near where we knew they must be living and called the boys. One was at a concert - Prodigy - and the other had given him a ride and the rest were at home. We got the directions after having a well deserved pint. After chatting a bit, we went hotel hunting and found one that looked fabulous on the ourside. went in and spent the night and left it the next day to look for another !!! the floors creaked as well as the wall in the next room and les was NOTTTTTTTTTTTT happy. the next hotel was fabulous and also had a great restaurant/pub .... a beautiful view out our window ...

Easter was one of the funnest I have ever had !!!! Anka cooked so much food and the table was so pretty and everyone was so happy. started with soup and then we had polish pancakes with creamy onion sauce, hard boiled eggs stuffed with mushroom, potato salad, cold cuts and something else which was my favorite - a stuffed pasty of sorts ... really really good !!