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How to get involved in the Chorley Grand Prix

There’s not long left until the Chorley Grand Prix comes to town on Saturday 4 April but there are still plenty of ways you and your family can get involved in the occasion.  Here are our top ten tips!

The Wellbeing Farm Sausage Experience

This certainly wasn’t your average Saturday night.  It was a winter's evening and I was at Wellbeing Farm in Edgworth (between Darwen and Bolton), right on the tops (in thick fog I hasten to add) about to take part in The Wellbeing Sausage Experience. My cohorts were two girls in their late teens, that had been bought the course as a Christmas gift, a pig farmer, his partner and their son who was training to be a chef.  We were all equally intrigued about the evening ahead.

Cycle Adventures - Way of the Roses

Last summer, my friend James decided he wanted to celebrate his 40^th birthday in style by tackling the Way of the Roses cycle ride.  How could we as his friends turn down such an adventure!

So after endless planning and with panniers packed, we embarked on this four day trek starting on the Morecambe Bay coast after a quick obligatory group photo on the promenade.

Biking in Breathtaking Bleasdale

Inglewhite to Chipping via Scorton
Miles 32 – Terrain, undulating

With a definite nip in the air, my cycling friends and I donned gloves and helmet in the glorious sunshine as we cycled out of the pretty village of Inglewhite. We climbed through the Forest of Bowland towards Beacon Fell Country Park taking us onto Bleasdale Moor, up towards Lancaster and eventually bringing you to the village of Scorton. As is usual, we stopped for a well-deserved rest at the Priory Inn Café for homemade soup, sandwiches and a warm fire fuelling us up for the route back to Chipping.

Spring into Lancashire during English Tourism Week

This year the English Tourism Week (14-22 March) coincides with the first day of Spring – so what better way to celebrate Lancashire’s fantastic choice of visitor experiences than with our 
Top Five Things to do in Lancashire this Spring.

1. Celebrate the natural world with a visit to a nature reserve. 
See Avocets at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre, Burscough which is celebrating its 40^th year with events throughout 2015. The new hide at Brockholes Nature Reserve near Preston (just off J31) with floor to ceiling glass gives visitors a brand new way to view the birdlife on No 1 Pit Lake and the new Sand Martin Wall.  See more nature reserves in Lancashire