A beautiful place, enjoying Father's day

Sunday, 21 June 2009 20:00

To all you Dads - hope you have had a good Father's Day!

The wind has died down and Glasson Basin is a mill pond! It has been a sunny day and it is lovely to have some warmth back again. I was right in thinking that it would be busy with walkers on a sunny Sunday!

The sun does shine!

Not only them, but the car parks were full with visitors' cars too. The cafe was doing a roaring trade and the snack bar was doing well too with a "bikers convention". Lots of lovely motorbikes, shiny and well looked after, were strewn in front of it!

This morning we went to the local church. It was very local for us - 2 minutes down the towpath!

It has a towpath entrancehttp://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/Glasson

The church was built in 1840 and is a Grade II listed building. The outside is rustic in style but inside it is lovely. There have been additions and alterations since the original church. The chancel and vestry were added in the 1930s and the west end was enclosed in 1988 to make a separate room.

The west endhttp://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/Glasson

Galleries seem to be popular in this part of the world and like many churches the one at Glasson is still in use, albeit as the organ loft! The east window is also a modern addition (1979). It depicts the industries of the area - farming, oyster-catching and has a lighthouse.

The service was a family service and although the congregation was small we were glad to see that there was a good number of children there. It was a "Lay" led service so no Vicar in sight!

This afternoon we caught the bus from Glasson Dock into Lancaster (a 15 minute trip) to meet up with Craig (it is Father's Day after all!) for a late lunch at the Greaves Park restaurant - once a Brewers Fayre, now a Table Table pub/restaurant - same owners Whitbread, just different branding! A nice meal and plenty of time to eat it!

So tomorrow we move up the locks onto the main line again, probably staying at Galgate as I have to go into Lancaster again to pick up my prescription. Galgate is on the A6, the main route into the city, so no worries about catching a bus!

Talking buses - the Lancaster Canal is very well served with buses and as you may have noticed we have managed to get around very easily because of this.

I noticed yesterday at Lancaster bus station that you can catch a National Express to Penzance, via St Austell and Camborne in Cornwall!  From the station there are trains that go to Edinburgh so we were even tempted to go to Scotland for the day! So the UK's extremities are reachable from here by Public Transport too!