Rhodedendrons along the Sandstone Trail

Friday
This morning we drove to Liverpool airport to meet Laura. Her choir tour finished today, and whilst the rest of the group were flying back to the States, she took a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Liverpool to spend a long weekend in England seeing family, before returning home. After lunch we walked a northern stretch of the Sandstone Trail, a 34 mile long walkers' path, following sandstone ridges running north-south from Frodsham in central Cheshire to Whitchurch just over the Shropshire border. It was a wonderful stretch, skirting sandstone outcrops, clothed with birch and oak, and huge banks of rhodedendron. The top of the ridge affords sweeping views over the Mersey estuary.

One year ago: Bigleaf magnolia