The lovely countryside tour

Im going to try keep this a little short and sweet as it has been a jammed packed two days of exploring, meeting family and being given the local tour history.

Starting in the city of Chester, you can spend a few hours here walking on the old Roman walls that surround the city centre, its well worth checking out with most of the points of interest along the route, its hard to imagine what these days looked like in the day with armed swordsmen at the city gates, the still standing towers, bridges and castle in the walls. It has also got a cool looking clock in the centre and if your on the walls, you will see this on your walk.

But you could only really spend about 4/ 5 hours seeing everything and the shopping centre which we did run out of things to see and the weather wasn't thr greatest to explore much else, so we ended up chilling in a pub near the bus station which was good to talk to locals and about Australia and all till our bus came.

Its really hard to tell what town your in when you get driven around by family members, getting the grand tour around the countryside between Halifax, Bradford, Saitaire.
Because all these towns and citys are all interlocked nowdays, or within a 10 minute drive between these places, but was great to see from a local level about things you nevee hear about, eating in a famour soup shop, seeing statues made from other famous sites in the UK end up in these towns because they were "too small".

Also this area has its ties to Australia when Britain had the world monopoly of wool, processing, testing and massive industrys, even one place in Saitaire that still has one of the major structures converted into several floors of artworks, rare antiques, dining and entertainment but we didnt think it would have all that stuff in there from the look of the outside.

Other sites we have seen was the Piece hall square, which has been used since the 18th century and even today ( more modern now ) it was were merchants would use one of the many rooms to set up shop, or people for rallys and protests to live entertainment and shows, nearby is an amazing church called 'the minster', you can just walk around and check out the stained windows or works, and on the outside the effect of smog staining and coal fires back when pollution was so bad and air quality was terrible from the industrial areas between the towns.

Even though some of these towns have about 100k people in them its surprising to see open fields and greenlands not that far from the towns and the feel of the citys never feels like it has that many people, where are you all hiding? Is it because the Aussies are here? We don't bite... much...