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'Oh, perhaps the Leisure Park doesn't sound so great after all.'
LancasterCastleisfairlyimpressivetolookat,butbecauseofthefactthatpartsofitare
still used as both a prison and a court, access to visitors is very restricted and it is not pos-
sible to visit the towers, keep, battlements and dungeons. It seems a shame that it is only
criminals and suspected criminals that get to enjoy Lancaster's best tourist attraction.
'Shall we give the Maritime Museum a go?' asked Ben once we were outside.
'Are you serious?'
'Of course I'm not. I can't think of anything I would rather do less. Lancaster's rubbish
isn't it?'
'Yeah, it is a bit, although if someone came to Northampton Tourist Information, the
best advice they would get is to go to the Shoe Museum.'
'I know. Northampton's even worse. That's why I moved to London.'
'The shoe museum's actually quite good, though. Have you ever been?'
'No. I'd rather visit Lancaster's Maritime Museum.'
We wheeled our bikes down into the city centre. On the way we passed a busker who
was playing a badly tuned guitar accompanied by a badly tuned voice.
'Even the buskers in Lancaster are crap. We could sing better than that,' said Ben.
'Actually, that's not a bad idea. We could do some busking for our lunch.'
'Yeah, very funny.'
'I'm serious. Why not? We don't need instruments; we could just sing and get people to
give us food instead of money.'
'You're serious aren't you?'
'Yeah, why not?' I said, becoming increasingly excited by the idea. 'What about Christ-
mas carols? We both know the words.'
'It's September.'
'I know. We would be being proactive.'
'You're mad. Sounds fun to me, though. Let's do it.'
We found an empty cardboard box next to a dustbin and opened it out to form one large
piece of card. Ben then managed to borrow a marker pen from a confused shop assistant
and we set to work designing our sign.
We needed to make sure people understood that we didn't want money. As tempting as
it was to busk for money and then spend it on whatever we wanted, we had made it clear
from the outset that we wouldn't use money at all, even if it was given to us. We settled on
the following:
WE DON'T NEED MONEY
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