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Published: November 26th 2006
One weekend out at ripon day 2
You know when you are on holiday, you do not want any alarm clock, mobile phone, any noise in the morning.
So although I was not happy with the fact that we had to get up as early as usual with the alarm clock in the morning, I
was pretty excited about what we were going to do for the day.
Full English breakfast, I really meant full English breakfast, as I had each single thing on the breakfast list, sausage,
bacon, tomato, fried bread, black pudding, eggs, toast, prunes, juice and tea.
Based on Barbara’s guide, we took the most expensive taxi, which we realised on the half way, to fountain abbey, as
there was no bus running in weekend.
Fountain abbey, you can just tell that is a national trust place, as they sell the unique national trust jams in their gift
shop. The lady behind counter did try her hardest to persuade us to join the national trust, but its end with our
negative answer. I did not know whether she really liked us or
hated us, but she told us a longest route to walk in
fountain abbey, which took us 5 hours to finish. I think we did it very well, considering it was extremely windy and
raining heavily.
Fountain abbey, absolutely beautiful and wonderful place, was full of amazing views, green, yellow, red leaves
everywhere with water gardens, lakes, tunnels and swans. I thought I would just see those scenes in cartoons. Gladly
we were not the only people in that day, there were a few people like us enjoying themselves in that raining weather.
We were soaked and freezing! Finally we made to tea room about 3:30PM. The sky started to get dark. People rushed
into tea room to get themselves warm. That could be my most favourite moment to have a cup of tea, which was not
just warm me up physically, also mentally.
Deer park, our last destination, where we got lost, was mega. It’s a lot bigger than we thought. Deer became a bit
sensitive from constantly visiting through whole years. So they kept staring at us for literally 10 mins when we walked
water garden
looks even better in the rain!along the path through the park. They seemed to tell us: do not you try to attack my territory!
I did not think that people who worked there were very good at direction, as by following their guide, we were still in
the deer park after half hour walking . Could you imagine walking on the wet grass with your shoes soaked, your skin
was as freezing as hell, rain was still going on, and the wind made it worse. We missed that warm bath!! No way to call
the taxi, as no one knew where we were.
We definitely learned how to survive in the wild. We finally reached a tiny village by following car lights from distance.
Luckily we found sign on the side of a small path, which said: the path to Ripon. ….we felt the hope again!
Honestly that was the longest path I had ever experienced. It was endless. The sky was getting really dark and we
were in the middle of nowhere. And what made it scarier was the clouds were getting thicker and darker quickly. It was
stag
in deer territory! chasing us with lightning just behind. We made it out after 1 hour. Back to place where was safer and more normal.
In another half hour time, we made back to our warm and cosy cottage.
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The Open Road
Kris and Dennie
good to hear from you
Hey hedy ( and Rob) good to hear that you are still alive. I talked to Leonie on MSN yesterday, but have been very out of touch! I'm still just living and working in Regina. I moved into my house and have a new girlfriend who is a teacher too. Things are great! Good luck, and stay in touch!