Revisiting Manchester, England 2019/Carlos Pueblo
Right after
returning home from my Panama Canal Transit Cruise, I
packed again
for my 4 weeks re-visit of the U.K. due to my previous
booked of a
direct flight from Houston to Manchester. At the beginning,
I considered
taking another cruise from Rome, Italy for a 9 days cruise
to the Greek
Isles; yet the cruise liner didn’t yield enough price and I had
to give up.
My second choice was to visit the Isle of Lewis of the Outer
Hebrides in
Scotland for the famous Harris Tweet, a famous producer of
the heavy
wool garment. I learn the Harris Tweet suit, a heavy set of a
wool suit
from Scotland where I always like to visit and to real feeling of
the
background of a quality control English law to protect the quality of
such product
worldwide. An English fellow traveler helped me to search
the
transportation and possible inn in that area with any sure guaranty of
accessible
as the matter of fact. A lady staff at the city information center
recommended
me visit Marple Township on the suburban of the city for
the old
canal, a part of 2000 miles of canals in England built more than
200 years
ago in the Great Industrial Revolution Era. I immediately extended
four more
nights in Manchester.
I had had a
very good rapport with the train conductor who was well learned
with the
British Canals System. He also mentioned that I should visit Birmingham
also due to
its canals system. He asked a pair of local train passengers taking me
to the
entrance of the canal, 16th lock, and downhill to 1st
lock and further. Before
our separation,
the young man briefly advised me how much time and where I
possibly can
reach my first train station to hop on a train back to the city. Marple
township is
considerably rich with a sufficient fund to re-innovate the old canals
and make it beautiful
like a park of hiking and bicycle riding. Lock 12th is under
repair due
to the soil movement to narrow the width of the lock. I saw a heavy
machinery on
site and passed in detour. Local residents took their morning walk
with their
pets dogs and I could see how exhausted those lovely dogs coming up
to have a
break.
On the bank
of lock 10th, I ran into a volunteer of the Canal & River Trust
to
promote something
for the Trust, the charity foundation and the owner of the
2000 miles
waterway. Dave is also very fond of the old canals and very knowledgeable
in the
system. He recommended me visit additional two township, Mabdon to the south
and Edale to
the north.
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