Sheffield Measures and Watery Finds

I was up in Sheffield last month.  I will frequent this city much during the next 5 years as one of my daughters has just started at Sheffield University.  This was my third trip there: the first consisting of hugging and dropping her, the second of hugging and doing a Sainsbury's shop with her (I paid naturally) and this one third where we'd matured onto exploration (give or take a parental food bill I still paid). Anyway,  I had the advantage of arriving whilst she was still in lectures so set off to explore.


I wound my way through some lovely parts of historic Sheffield, past numerous fountains, the Winter Gardens etc when I arrived at the Peace Gardens to bag my prize.

Lovely huh?



One of things Riona wanted to do was to 'find water' when I was up. Being an Exeter child she was missing this so I was tasked to organise something. I discovered a wonderful watery world of canal and rivers, in particular the Blue Loop. We started canal side down at Victoria Quays.



The Sheffield and Tinsley Canal autumnal style.

Yay - water!

Once we left the canal we looped back via the River Don and came across the Five Weirs Walk.

This is a lovely walk with interesting artefacts carved out of wood dotted along the path. Sadly some of it was closed and we had a 1km road stretch which was a bit meh. But it means we have to go back ;-)

Burton Weir.

And just as we were heading back into the city, look what I found?