December 28th-30th.
We have met up with our travelling buddies Alison and Peter for our annual New Year’s eve get together, if Covid hadn’t intervened this would have been our 8th such meeting. It was very damp and drizzly on our arrival so we didn’t do anything on Saturday just caught up on news as we hadn’t been together since October.
Sunday morning it was dry and sunny and we walked into Shrewsbury, it wasn’t too busy with pedestrians and so it was pleasant to walk around and view the old buildings.
I’ve never heard of Shrewsbury Cakes before, further research obviously required, and maybe tasting.
The previous afternoon on a walk around the site both Peter and I found what we had thought of as waterproof walking shoes wasn’t the case, we both ended up with wet feet. As a result a trip to Go Outdoors in Shrewsbury became a must and new walking shoes were purchased. The ladies visited other shops but no purchases were made.
We walked down to the River Severn and found a restaurant to have a light lunch, very tasty too broccoli and stilton soup with fresh rolls.
Very close to the restaurant is the beautiful parkland known as The Quarry, part of it was very busy with families having a great time on the playground.
Another pleasant area of The Quarry is an enclosed garden area known as The Dingle.
After leaving The Quarry we took a leisurely walk back through the town centre and back to the campsite which is situated alongside the river.
Today after a few domestic duties we drove to a nearby Aldi to stock up on a few essentials an then we drove to Dagfields Antiques centre. Here we spent about three hours wandering around its many buildings sometimes you find treasure, sometimes not, Michelle added to her collection of Poole pottery. as did Alison.
taraabit 