Our plans for this weekend (which had amounted to nothing much) suddenly changed last week when checking the what's on guide in the local paper. We noticed that the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster were currently staging a production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and what started as a simple suggestion to drive over for the afternoon, have a bite to eat and enjoy the show suddenly turned into a weekend away with two nights in a nice hotel, the matinee performance, plus some shopping and a couple of meals in decent restaurants.Taking the train straight from work, we arrived in Lancaster by around 6pm, giving us plenty of time to settle in to our city centre hotel, catch our bearings and find a decent place to eat. We settled on a traditional Italian restaurant round the corner from our hotel and enjoyed some excellent food in an ambient surroundings - fortunate apparently because the students had all finished for Easter otherwise the place would have been packed.
Back at the hotel, we enjoyed a couple of drinks in the busy ground floor bar before heading up to our room, which was comfortable and quiet despite being right in the city centre. The accommodation has been recently modernised making for a pleasant stay, even though the hotel's history goes back to the 1600s (the Sun was a popular hotel / pub name after Cromwell's failed republic at the end of the 17th century).
Plans for Saturday include a leisurely breakfast and some shopping in the morning before the theatre in the afternoon, and with the weather set to be fine, I hoped to take some time out to take some pictures of the historical city centre too.
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