We took a drive up to the Peak District today, to have a look around the Spa town of Buxton. It is just over an hour's drive from Stone.
It was a balmy 3 degrees when we arrived at lunchtime ...
First on the agenda was to find a dog friendly pub to have lunch in ...
We easily found a pub and had a couple of burgers, veggie for Elaine of course. It is a very nice town with plenty of real shops rather than charity shops - we got the impression that Buxton was doing OK. When we visit different towns and villages we always have a discussion as to whether we could live there. We both really liked Buxton, but were not so sure after chatting to the barmaid about the weather there ... she said that last summer was fantastic and it lasted a whole month! Some days it got up to 25 degrees!! Next!
After a refreshing Boddies and Guinness we carried on walking.
The Palace Hotel was rather grand ...
This is the University of Derby, Buxton campus. Over two hundred years ago it started off as a stables and servants' accommodation. It was then converted to a hospital which closed down in 2000 and is now the uni campus ...
Another lovely building - The Opera House, which was designed by the same chappie who designed the London Palladium ...
Yet another grand pub, we will check out the interior next time ... one cannot drink and drive!
Finally the park where the doggies were very happy to see some squirrels ...
We came back to base via Macclesfield, where we popped in to Elaine's dads place to have a cuppa and pick up some mail.
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