Blogs from Durham County, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 11

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Well after more than a week of being sick with a very nasty bug, both adrian and I are finally on the recovering end... we were pretty much bed ridden for the entire time, it was like the worst hangover ever but without the alcohol... however we did tread on, and with a lot of horrid cough medicine and plenty of paracetamol, we are on track again. It's always crap being sick, but worse when you're on supposed to be on holiday. I missed out on the beautiful medieval banquet at Lumley Castle which the guys from Chester Le had organised way before we arrived. They had all planned a surprise for us on Friday night with a formal medieval banquet at the castle where Adrian and I were supposed to be the Baron and Baroness ... read more

It's 10.30pm now and we've been up since 6.30am this morning, so I will keep this short and simple. The last few days have been spent with loads of Adrian's family, most of the pictures were taken at Mandy's place about half an hour from Chester Le. Her place is gorgeous and backs into this lovely pathway leading to a farm with stream, sheep, and lots of beautiful greenery. They treated us to a traditional English meal of Yorkshire Pudding with meat and gravy which was quite nice actually. Once again, most of the family was there, and the weather was once again beautiful and sunny. Yesterday, we had a fantastic day out with Joe (big joe and little joe), Sue, Carl, Mim, Jack and Elsie who showed us around where Adrian's mum and nan used ... read more

Friday 9 May - Day 13 and another 13 miles! We continued up the Tees - as we ascended the scenery became gradually more and more wild and remote. We spent an hour clambering over boulder-fields and scree, which was very hazardous in places. From time to time we saw kestrels hovering above the impressive Falcon Clints - which was a welcome sight and also gave us a chance to stop and catch our breath as we carefully made our way over the fallen rocks by the River Tees. On rounding a corner, we then came upon the perfectly named "Cauldron Snout" - a fuming torrent of water crashing down a series of cascading waterfalls - possibly even more spectacular than High Force, but not many people make it up this far (again, you can't get ... read more

It was my trip in England - I was there in November 2007. I partcipated in martial arts seminar and I spent two nights overthere with some friends. Please see where we slept - quite interesting hotel. About Darlington I know only one thing - there were come into existence first railway at the whole of the world. Generally this town looks like the others in England, the same houses built everywhere... read more