Well I'm very sorry, it has been some time since I last posted a blog, but all sorts of things seem to of been happening in my life, which I will tell you more about, in the future, but now as I promised this is a story of our trip to Blackpool last week.
Originally we were planning to go to Wales, but due to problems with the trains decided we would use Blackpool as a base, and therefore we would travel by car instead.
The hotel was a little basic but the rooms were okay, and the food was excellent, although the waitress appeared to have the same problem as I, short-term memory loss, because she was constantly coming back to check what our order was.
We did little on the first day, apart from in the evening when we went along the promenade taking a series of photographs of the sunset and the illuminated attractions, which seem to have come out quite successfully.
The next day we had a trip to the famous Bispham Chippy, we had a meal of fish and chips followed by carrot cake to fill us up, then encouraged we went to Stanley Park for opportunities to take photos of the scenery & any other things of interest
Well the park was a really good place to go because there were a range of swans, geese & ducks all with their little ones, looking really cute, plus herons & other birds, as can be seen by these photos.
We then went to the café for a drink & could not believe the notice on the wall, which amongst other things banned CARS, how did they think they were going to get through the doors, also as you can see from the photos they also banned scooters, which at the time we thought funny, imagining dirty smelly Vespas trying to come in, no they meant electric mobility scooters, which was going to cause problems for a range of customers, although they allowed dogs, maybe they behave better & make less noise :o)
That evening yet again we took some more photos along the promenade, but it was very windy so trying to balance the camera became a problem at times.
The following day we went for a look at the ship that had sunk near Cleveleys & went on the beach to get some better photos of it, whilst there 2 young ladies from the council appeared & erected banners as you can see from the photo informing us all that there was an exclusion zone & we
were not to approach the ship, what is interesting is that we & others all obeyed although there was actually no barrier to stop people getting closer to it.
We went to Fleetwood for a look round & managed to get lost both going there as well as on the way back, to show how competent we were we managed to get lost on our way back to Stanley Park, which had been selected because of the fact it was such a nice quiet place where we could eat whilst listening to the bird song.
When we got there all the seats outside were full so we went inside, sadly it was full up, with a very limited supply of sandwiches & cakes for us to eat, we finally found a table just near the jazz quartet who I think would of sounded quite good if only they had sorted out their sound system, after that we managed to get lost yet again on the way back to the hotel, at least we are consistent.
Guess how we spent the evening, well you guessed it at the promenade again, but wait for it we
also took a series of photos of the Big One ride to show the height & speed, not sure how well they worked out, will have to put some up for peoples comments, but we spent nearly 2 hours watching the sun go down which was so beautiful a sunset, but sadly most of the rest of the holidaymakers seemed more interested in the pubs & amusements, so never saw this sight.
The next day was the last so sadly we packed & set off home, finally one of our group had sorted out the sat nav on his mobile phone, which seemed to agree most of the way home, but then when I took a short cut it kept trying to get us to go back on route, despite it we finally got back home, hope you have enjoyed the story
Originally we were planning to go to Wales, but due to problems with the trains decided we would use Blackpool as a base, and therefore we would travel by car instead.
The hotel was a little basic but the rooms were okay, and the food was excellent, although the waitress appeared to have the same problem as I, short-term memory loss, because she was constantly coming back to check what our order was.
We did little on the first day, apart from in the evening when we went along the promenade taking a series of photographs of the sunset and the illuminated attractions, which seem to have come out quite successfully.
The next day we had a trip to the famous Bispham Chippy, we had a meal of fish and chips followed by carrot cake to fill us up, then encouraged we went to Stanley Park for opportunities to take photos of the scenery & any other things of interest
Well the park was a really good place to go because there were a range of swans, geese & ducks all with their little ones, looking really cute, plus herons & other birds, as can be seen by these photos.
We then went to the café for a drink & could not believe the notice on the wall, which amongst other things banned CARS, how did they think they were going to get through the doors, also as you can see from the photos they also banned scooters, which at the time we thought funny, imagining dirty smelly Vespas trying to come in, no they meant electric mobility scooters, which was going to cause problems for a range of customers, although they allowed dogs, maybe they behave better & make less noise :o)
That evening yet again we took some more photos along the promenade, but it was very windy so trying to balance the camera became a problem at times.
The following day we went for a look at the ship that had sunk near Cleveleys & went on the beach to get some better photos of it, whilst there 2 young ladies from the council appeared & erected banners as you can see from the photo informing us all that there was an exclusion zone & we
were not to approach the ship, what is interesting is that we & others all obeyed although there was actually no barrier to stop people getting closer to it.We went to Fleetwood for a look round & managed to get lost both going there as well as on the way back, to show how competent we were we managed to get lost on our way back to Stanley Park, which had been selected because of the fact it was such a nice quiet place where we could eat whilst listening to the bird song.
When we got there all the seats outside were full so we went inside, sadly it was full up, with a very limited supply of sandwiches & cakes for us to eat, we finally found a table just near the jazz quartet who I think would of sounded quite good if only they had sorted out their sound system, after that we managed to get lost yet again on the way back to the hotel, at least we are consistent.
Guess how we spent the evening, well you guessed it at the promenade again, but wait for it we
also took a series of photos of the Big One ride to show the height & speed, not sure how well they worked out, will have to put some up for peoples comments, but we spent nearly 2 hours watching the sun go down which was so beautiful a sunset, but sadly most of the rest of the holidaymakers seemed more interested in the pubs & amusements, so never saw this sight.
The next day was the last so sadly we packed & set off home, finally one of our group had sorted out the sat nav on his mobile phone, which seemed to agree most of the way home, but then when I took a short cut it kept trying to get us to go back on route, despite it we finally got back home, hope you have enjoyed the story
