Canalside Trail

2 August 2026

If I can’t sleep in, and it seems I can’t any more, then being out on my bike along the canal early on a sunny Sunday morning is a good second best. Cheshire Oaks is quite pleasant before the shops open and the people arrive.

my bike leaning against a marker for the canalside trail, big metal thing telling me it’s 8 3/4 miles back to Chester, there are cutouts in the metal making a canalboat scene against the sky looking down from the roving bridge over the canal, the bridge twists under itself so that a horse pulling a boat can switch sides of the canal without unhitching a morning view up the canal from the chester basin at telford’s warehouse dappled sunlight on the brickwork of a viaduct crossing the canal massive amounts of weed floating in the canal young ducks swimming across the canal towards me the millennium milepost near chester zoo, green painted arms point to chester, capenhurst and neston peaceful view of the canal with just some pylons in the distance