Shrewsbury; Saturday, 14 November, 2015

The mornings weather appeared to be better as I checked out of the hotel and headed over to the station to pick up the train to Shrewsbury, but that turned out to just be a pretence as the rain started again about half way into the journey, and by the time I arrived in Shrewsbury it was raining quite heavily.

I walked over to the hotel and left my luggage with them, before heading next door to the bus station to pick up the bus out to the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock.

The town can lay claim to be the actual birthplace of the modern Olympics, with the Wenlock games having taken place many years before the modern games were restarted in Greece (in fact the founder of the modern Olympic movement even visited the town to get inspiration).

The town is also home to a very impressive set of ruins of it’s former Priory, destroyed following the reformation, and it was to these that I fought my way through the driving rain to visit.

I had quite a lengthy look round the site, taking quite a lot of advantage of the areas where there was shelter to stay out of the rain.

After looking round the priory I had a wander round town and popped into the very nice, is slightly small, town museum to have a look around, before heading back to the bus shelter to pick up the bus back into Shrewsbury.

Back in town I checked into the hotel and, after unpacking, headed out to have a brief look around town before the sun set. On my wandering I found myself outside the local theatre and looking at the events schedule noticed there was a comedy act on that evening- on a whim I enquired in the box office and was able to snap up the very last ticket.

I had just enough time to grab an evening meal before heading back to the theatre to take in the show before returning, in a now cloudless night, back to the hotel to turn in.