http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , United Kingdom , England , North Yorkshire en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:15:46 +0000 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:15:46 +0000 Sunday saw a delightful visit from the delectable Sheba. With such things in mind a gentle walk along the rolling expanse of Scarborough's North Bay was enjoyed. The most curious sight was encountered however. Ladders. Ladders leading to nowhere. Nothing except the slight betrayal of a looped fishing rod and the unmarked scowl of a fisherman sitting on antierosion stones. Yes people were fis http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Scarborough/blog-453728.html A relatively early start saw a haircut a trip to an unhelpful bank a misplaced mobile telephone unit epic domesticity Imran and a subsequent solo visit to Scarborough castle.Piss poor planning saw my camera lose its charge half way round my exploration but in hindsight was just as well as the digital audio tour hanging round my neck was suspended on too long a thread for me to hear as it co http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Scarborough/blog-451754.html Spent Christmas again in the North with S S. Andrew has to work some on call over the Christmas New Years this year so only have a few days get away this year. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-445824.html Spent Christmas in York with S S photos will be sent in emails Even made it to mass in the local village on Christmas Eve and went to our first Pantomime Cinderella on the 26th at the York Theatre Royal they are a tradition over here. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-445007.html We spent Easter weekend with family around York. Delicious meals cooked by Sally and lots of wine courtesy of Stan Had Easter dinner with my cousin Bill and his wife as well as Ally and her husband Darren who live in Edinburgh. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-442710.html April was spent staying with S S in the North of England. Andrew I saw what we could around York and we all went on trips further afield.12th April Castle Howard Nunnington Hall.13th April Doncaster to visit Grandma's grave see mum's old house and school.19th April Fountains Abbey Studley Royal Brimham Rocks on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.22nd April Pickering Pickering Cast http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/blog-442708.html Waking up early we had our first full day in England we headed into York with S S after a visit to the local doctor for a leg examination and the all clear.We made several trips into York during April so the photos are from all of these. On the 11th we got to the York Minster ... where yes on our first trip out I managed to drop and break our only camera on the Minster floor We had a walk al http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-442707.html We finally arrived in England on the 10th April after setting off from Sydney delayed an hour or so with Qantas sometime into the flight a problem with the plane meant the pilot decided we should return to Sydney ... where we were left to sit on the plane while they fixed it again quite some time ... during which the crew also insisted we remain seated. We then made attempt two to Singapore http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-442706.html It's the most leisure day of my whole trip.I wanted to visit the largest museum in National Railway Museum but it only opened after noon and I had to give it up and went to Yorkshire Museum instead. Yorkshire Museum showed the history of human being but its content wasn't as rich as York Castle. Personally I think it's not a must. I love the grass in front of the museum though should be one o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-441706.html After I woke up I went to the laundry and took a buffet breakfast in the youth hostel. There were not many types of food available but their taste was quite good and the most important hot enoughwarming up your body in a cold autumn. Time spent on laundry as well as distance between hostel and town center were both longer than expected so it was already after nine when I arrived at City http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-441096.html Sept 11 23 2010I had forgotten how close everything is in the UK unlike the States and even NZ. You don't have to drive too far to get to some point of interest. A couple of trips of note are Kilburn and Whitby. Kilburn is another pretty stone housed village. A white horse etched into the chalk cliffs above overlooks the village. A school teacher and his class did this as a project in the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/blog-440771.html So my vacation is slowly drawing to an end but i'm pleased to say i can finally announce the closely guarded plans i've been planning with LL for the last couple of months but that will follow shortly....So i know i didnt type a blog to accompany the images from Blackpool but to be fair their wasnt a huge amount to put so i thought the images were good enough to be left up alone i hope you enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/blog-440443.html Where to begin Hopefully this will be the start of an interesting read but I'm not promising anything I finished my last flight at Virgin on 24th September 2009. It was a brilliant trip with Ed to Los Angeles. I spent my last days off in Brighton and in between drinking and eating out managed to pack up two suitcases with belongings I don't want to throw away. Met mum and dad hungover on the t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Skipton/blog-440266.html Whitby Abbey is a ruin which sites on the top the west cliff looking out to sea and overlooking the town below. Whitby is a town that is rich in history and has been the setting for many stories and adventures. The most famous visitor been Dracula himself.There are two ways to approach the Abbey from the car park to the south or from Whitby town itself via 199 winding and rather steep stone s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Whitby/blog-439104.html Been a keen mountain biker ive excitied about our second trip of the year to Whitby in Yorkshire. It also happens that this year our trip falls on the same weekend as the Whitby Goth weekend.This year we have killed two birds with one stone and combined our annual bike ride and a stag weekend into one so it should make for a interesting weekend.We arrive in Scarborough by train on Friday 30th Oc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Whitby/blog-439100.html Tuesday 25 August The start of the Britain and Ireland Explorer.Wake Up 615amBags out and Breakfast 645amMeet in the Lobby 730amItrsquos always an exciting morning starting a tour. I love looking around at breakfast and wondering who will be with you. We met John our tour director. He seemed like a friendly Scotsman He had a very lovely accent that was very easy to listen to. We hopped ont http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-438101.html Way back in the cold snowy days of Jan we spent two weeks test riding a range of motorcycles Motoguzzis KTMs Hondas BMWs taking all of them on a circuit up and over the Pennines round Skipton Malham on the little twisty back roads. There were a few exciting moments e.g. when it decided to snow really heavily on a particularly hilly twisty single track road with nowhere to turn round and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/North-York-Moors/blog-435524.html Dias 10 e 11 O nome York costuma ser mais associado cidade colonizada do que colonizadora. Houvessem os holandeses resistido a Big Apple hoje poderia ser chamar Nova Amsterd. Por duas vezes capital do Imprio Britnico a cidade de York atualmente um no muito badalado destino turstico. Mais do que por sua histria muitos vo at l para apreciar a maior catedral gtica da Europa. Af http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-430871.html this morning we went down to the beach at whitby to look for fossils in rocksdad was the first to find a fossil and i think it is a fish fossilthen we moved spots and suddenly found all these shell fossilsthen we found these 2 really interesting fossils which we believe are the boddies of some sort of squidwe are going to take them to the specialist in a few weeks when we go hunting with him.REALL http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Whitby/blog-430414.html We awake today to the first rain we have experienced in Lancashire. In lieu of a day at the cricket we decided to visit the historic walled city of York with a detour through Leeds to try to sort out a refund on the cricket tickets.As we drove east the rain continued until we crested the dividing range when it stopped. This is the highest motorway in England and the views would have been wonde http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-427362.html