I was very anxious to visit Hadrian’s wall and follow in the Roman’s footsteps, but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. This would be my fault – I think to appreciate this wall one needs to walk the length of it, but we did only a very short section. The wall is basically […]
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Carrying on from York and Castle Howard, we proceeded to Helmsley, a most delightful and unspoiled town, which endeared itself to us as there was a section of free parking in the middle of town. We haven’t seen such a thing anywhere else. There was something for both of us here. Whilst Mark visited this […]
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I’m getting so far behind with my posts as I’m finding it impossible to combine days, and so it is with the day we went to York – so much to see, and so much to report, so I’m sorry to be bombarding you. Whilst we stayed in Leeds we turned the other way and […]
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When we moved on from Leeds we decided we would stay out of the city and so chose a lovely self-contained cottage on a farm. I was really taken with all the animals, and this alpaca was so friendly; it could not have come closer! Once again we used our accommodation as a base and […]
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Using Leeds as a base we did some day trips in the area but before I get to that I thought I’d just show a few other highlights of Leeds. We rely heavily on our Lonely Planet guide and the internet to work out what to see when we get to a new place, but […]
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