As forecast, it was raining in Harrogate this morning, which made me rethink my day, even before I got up. The forecast was for “drenching rain” in Leeds. Perhaps I would just go to London rather than walk up to Weetwood Hall in heavy rain. But, by the time I had eaten breakfast, the rain had virtually stopped. So I decided to judge the situation in Leeds. Thankfully, that was the end of the rain for the day. Hustling a bit, I arrived at the Harrogate train station about ten minutes before the train was due. What became obvious, now I know the town, is that Google maps don’t “see” pedestrian precincts, only sending walkers along streets, thus a longer walk. About forty minutes later, I was in Leeds, had stored the luggage and recognized nothing,
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