Bus |
From |
To |
Service |
Operator |
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FJ10 BJY |
Middleshurst, Packmoor |
Chester Zoo |
Charter |
Aiming High |
FJ10 BJY |
Chester Zoo |
Middleshurst, Packmoor |
Charter |
Aiming High |
Today Matthew was going Chester Zoo with Aiming High. The weather for today was grey skies and showers so we packed a coat in his rucksack as well as his packed lunch. Matthew got up at around 08:30 and he had some breakfast. We departed for Middlehurst around 09:30. On the way up to the A50 at Heron Cross we saw Copeland's Tours MIB 978 loading up on Blurton Road.
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| Copeland's Tours MIB 978 loads in Blurton |
We then carried on to Middlehurst to meet the rest of the group getting there a little before 10:00. Everyone else was waiting inside, so we used the opportunity to go and take a picture of the bus he was travelling up to Chester Zoo on, Aiming High FJ10 BJY.
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| Aiming high's FJ10 BJY in Middlehurst |
I said goodbye to him and left him there. A little after 10:00 he would have set off to Chester Zoo. The route was along the Tunstall by-pass, North along the A500 up to Nantwich. On the way we saw Copelands Tours MIB 236 going to Bolton. From there they went to the A51 and then Westbound to Chester. In Chester we saw GHA MX56 AAZ and First Manchester 65738. They then headed North through town to the Zoo. They parked up in the coach park and Matthew 'persuaded' someone to let him on the coach to take a picture. Matthew informs me this high specification vehicle was Atlantic Travel P7 OPR.
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| Inside a coach at Chester Zoo |
we then spied a lone Ogdens Travel coach in the car park.
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| Ogdens Travel coach in Chester Zoo |
After the excitement of the coach park, Matthew and his group then entered into the zoo itself. One of the first thing they went to see were the monkeys.
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| Monkeys in Chester Zoo |
Matthew didn't take many picture of the bigger animals like Giraffe or Elephants, but he did get a few picture of these deer like creatures.
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| Some kind of deer |
Afterwards, he spotted one of them on it's own.
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| Another deer |
Afterward they went for dinner, Matthew used the toilet and they sat and ate their packed lunches by the fountain.
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| The fountain by the main visitor building |
After dinner Matthew went into the Amphibian house and then went in to see the bats.
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| Bats! |
Matthew declined to go into the butterfly house. This is probably just aswell as at home he usually tries to kill moths! They then got to see a dinosaur...
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| Erm...T Rex! |
After they had finished with the animals it was back out to the coach park. we took a picture of this P G Coaches coach as he was waiting to go home.
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| P G Coaches N995 UPR at Chester Zoo |
Back in the minibus he took another picture of the row of coaches in the distance.
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| The row of coaches at Chester Zoo |
The route home would have been a reverse of the route out. South through Chester and then onto the A51. They then got onto the A500 at Nantwich and headed South and then along the Tunstall by-pass. They got back in and went indoors until just before 16:00 when we arrived to pick Matthew up. Mum talked to the Aiming High workers about his trip whilst I chased him around the building. After photographic the art supplies for a craft project, using the toilet and then taking a picture of another minibus at the back of the school we returned to the car. We headed to Longton to see what was parked up at the Z Carz depot. There was only three vehicles there today. Here we see V690 EBC with D104 XAN in the background.
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| Z Carz V690 EBC at their Longton Depot |
we also saw a onetime school bus of his, LDV minibus DS51 ZJU.
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| Z Carz DS51 ZJU at their Longton Depot |
We then went to MacDonalds in Longton to pick up tea for mum and matthew. He also had two 'London 2012' Coca Cola glasses and 2 blue wristbands. We then went home where he ate tea and then settled down for the evening before bedtime...Mark
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