Our trip to Winsford to visit Colin and Carol:

Daniel and I caught a train up north to Winsford to visit Colin and Carol Jacobs. Colin is Daniel’s mum’s cousin. They are lovely people, who have welcomed us into their home and have said we can stay as long as we want and can come back at any time. Daniel is learning a lot about his family’s English history. They have a huge dog Monty who is a big softie inside. We went for a walk with him through some very muddy paddocks, past the salt mines. They mine salt for gritting the roads, so they have been extremely busy this last week. Carol (in red in the pictures) showed us where there are normally these huge piles of salt, but there is nothing there because it has all been used in the past week. Underneath the whole town are these huge caverns where the mining is taking place. We also saw their local golf course with snow on the green. That would be pretty difficult to play on.
On our second day here we walked into town for a bit of a look around. It has been a rainy day, so we didn’t do or see much. Colin introduced us to his local pub. It is in the brand name Wetherspoons. We had a real good meal for lunch today, as well as dinner last night. It has good cheap beers and decent pub meals so we’re going to find one close to us. We did a bit of window shopping, and I wanted a pair of Wellington’s so I bought some- when I called them gumboots Carol thought it was a funny thing to call them, so now they are my ‘wellies’.