Holidays - Day 1

Well it's good to know that people like Northern Rail - and all the other associated "Profit Centres" - are happy to screw up your holiday travel as well as your normal everyday work travel ! Our plan today was the "Station to Station Walk" between Littleborough and Marsden. An early start from Mossley was f**ked due to signalling problems at Manchester Victoria - we finally arrived at Littleborough at 1016 - rather than 0846 - it was raining - we left the station - and NOWHERE were there any signs indicating the start of the walk - however armed with OS map and GPS we got going. When we arrived at Hollingworth Lake we nipped into the info centre in case they had any leaflets etc - nowt ... it looks like the arrival of the "Pennine Bridleway" has seen the end of the "S2S" ..(you have to remember our OS Map of the area is a touch old !) A lot of time was spent in the vicinity of the M62 - we walked under it - we admired the queues !! Anyway we made it across - about 11 miles in the end - last bit into Marsden was a bit "heavy" to say the least - weather showery and generally sh*tty throughout so camera stayed mostly in bag (still drying out from Saturday night's "MozFest" !). Arrived in Marsden to find the "Tunnel End" pub shut - d'oh ! Never mind, we got to Riverhead Brewery Tap (now an Ossett Brewery pub) and settled down for a while - me on Ossett "Silver King" and Mrs Smiffy on Riverhead "Butterley Bitter" - home to check out where to go tomorrow. Plan is Norfolk - but the weather is "Norfolk and Good" all over - throw tent in car and go .................. Some pix...




Under the M62 - do they call it Rakewood Viaduct ?



Monday lunch on the M62 - queues and queues and queues of lorries - open the bloody Woodhead Tunnel and get this sh*t off the roads .... saw this for a while on the walk - and probably covered more miles on foot than these gas guzzlers managed in the same time !!



Wonder why people do this sort of thing to waymarks ... wankers maybe ?

Heyho - tomorrow - there's a steam railway "down there" as well (NNR) so ... let's see.. should be back for a Saturday game somewhere ....

(Fingers crossed for Mossley v Radcliffe tomorrow night as well !)
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