Sheffield; Sunday, 26 August, 2012

I headed out of the hotel down to the station to catch the train to the Victorian spa town of Matlock Bath and its key attraction the Heights of Abraham.

As the train pulled out of Sheffield station it was still a pretty OK day, and it was still fine for the 25 minutes I was waiting on Derby station for the connection, but almost predictably, as soon as I stepped off the train at Matlock Bath the skies decided to open.

Thankfully I was able to find some shelter, but there were quite a lot of very soggy looking people walking past. After 30 minutes the rain eased down into a drizzle so it was less unpleasant to wait in the outside queue to take the cable car up to the Heights.

I spent most of the afternoon up on the Heights taking in the caves and the views before heading back down into Matlock Bath for a very late lunch in a riverside pub before hopping back on the train into Derby and then back up to Sheffield.

I arrived back in town in time to have a look around the Cathedral, which was open much later this evening, before it closed.

I then had a wander around the city centre for a little while, before grabbing some dinner and then heading back to the hotel.