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| Posted by: supersi |
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
This weekend we made a long overdue trip up to Yorkshire to visit my aunt and uncle, cousins, and other extended family and friends. My aunt and uncle live in a 200 year old farm house in the countryside of the Yorkshire Dales. It is a very beautiful part of the country – an area of rolling hills, stone walled pastures, and plenty of cows and sheep. I have many happy childhood memories of the farmhouse, where my grandma would bake us pies and big roast beef dinners with yummy Yorkshire puddings.
It was a lovely sunny day, so Mel and I took a drive to Brimham Rocks, a national park with fascinating rock formations carved by glaciers. My brother and I used to run and jump and climb all over the rocks, while my grandma of course would stay petrified down below. I didn’t need to relive the not-so-happy childhood memory of getting stung by nettles though: Mel relived it for me. But as they say, you really haven’t had the full English experience until you’ve had a good frolic in a patch of nettles!
To get to Yorkshire, you take the M1 out of London and follow the signs to “The NORTH” for about 4.5 hours. We finally got organized with GPS and I can certainly say we *never* would have arrived without it. I think the maps are a little out of date though. At one point we were on a new part of the motorway, but the voice prompt insisted we were “off route” and depicted us a mile out of the way going cross-country. So yeah, if you were on the British Airways flight overhead and noticed that giant dust cloud blazing its way across the cow pastures, well, that was us, apparently.
If you want to see why Kent has been toppled from its position as the "Garden of England", with North Yorkshire taking the crown as most beautiful county, check out our photos. |
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