Blogs from Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

With the end of their holiday drawing nigh Janet and Jill have been running their food stocks down so we had to go out for breakfast this morning. What a hardship?! We’ve been having fruit, Shreddies and toast since we arrived so this morning I splurged on the pancakes with berry compote and Greek yogurt while Bernie went the full English breakfast ... without the mushrooms. Yum! Because the weather forecast for today was a bit ordinary (cloudy with showers) we decided to stay local and ride the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway which is running steam locomotives all weekend. It turns out we probably didn’t need to worry about photographing the steam train yesterday as there were to be plenty of opportunities today. The K&WVR is a five mile branch line that runs from Keighley ... read more

The first half of today was ecstatic, riding through the Yorkshire Dales was beautiful, they were open and wild and a few reservoir's and dams up there made the scenery top notch. Traffic was limited and plenty of time just to float and look around. A friendly bike rider said go down X road then there is a good café - and he was right. The reservoir man He does what he does whenever he can Scanning across his giant bath He lets out a full bodied, echoing laugh Hidden here in his perfect place He dances, spiralling, with energy and grace And then singing Opera at the top of his voice '' I am the reservoir man and I have the choice'' The giant taps they work only for him To twist or not - ... read more

We left Bernie at home this morning and Janet, Jill and I headed off to the Brontë Parsonage Museum. I can't think why Bernie wasn't interested in that???! Just before we entered the museum, Jill received a text to say that her nephew had arrived at Keighley station and was ready to be picked up. Jill headed back to the house to press Bernie into service for a drive to Keighley, while Janet and I proceeded with our visit to the museum. The Brontës are arguably the world's most famous literary family and Haworth Parsonage, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, was their home from 1820 to 1861. Earlier this year I read Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre (1847), Emily's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) which were written in the parsonage over ... read more

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We woke up this morning to another of the perks of staying a hotel: a hot traditional English breakfast. Now, I'll admit I didn't touch the fried tomato or mushroom (mostly for lack of time) but I have to say, fried toast with beans is brilliant. I rather like it. And for the record, Kellogg's Crunchy Nut cereal needs to be in America. Now. I am eating as much of it as I can get here, but I don't know what I'm going to do when I get back to the states. Breakfast didn't get over until later than anticipated--we were supposed to leave for the second half of our Pennine Way journey at 8 am, but didn't actually leave until 8:40. We had to get to Haworth by 2:00 pm, and we still would ... read more