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Europe » United Kingdom » England » West Yorkshire » Otley September 20th 2013

With no onward travel for us today we managed a bit of a lie in and then were joined in our room for breakfast by Jean’s daughters,Stella and Janet By mid morning we were ready to head for R & E’s home to follow them to a location called Surprise View where we had magnificent views out and over the lower end of the verdant Yorkshire Dales.At 280 metres above sea level there would be some great views out and over the Yorkshire Dales and also back towards Bradford and Leeds.In fact the views were 360 degrees. The sky was just a bit too hazy to be able to see Yorkminster,the cathedral in the city of York about 40 kilometres away, although the elevation of the lookout point is usually high enough to do so.Below the ... read more
Eric and Jean at the Otley market
Rhona,Janet and Gretchen searching the lolly stall for a sweet treat
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » West Yorkshire » Otley November 26th 2010

Well the journey has begun after leaving leeds rail station iv already hit my first snag -_- a points failure yay what a joy so now going backwards back in to leeds station to go round it. i hope this is not an example of things to come. Well turns out it was i got about 4 min out of the rail station and ended up going back and having to changed train which was such a pain in the butt. The rest of the journey was fairly uneventfull. Once on the coach it was a race with time to either get the 10pm ferry accross the channel we only just made it the other austria coach had to wait for the next one which wasnt till one am. We got to st anton at 3pm ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » West Yorkshire » Otley August 20th 2010

We said our final goodbye to Otley on the last weekend in july. Had a send off at the cricket club witha nice speech and a present for brendy. I worked both days on the weekend so work on sunday was a real struggle after a big night with the crew and the kettle. Nice send off from work with some cupcakes and card and home to pack and clean the house for our flight on monday the 2nd. Got dropped off by one of the girls which made it easy and started out trip with no hassle at all. ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » West Yorkshire » Otley May 20th 2010

Hey All, Thought i better do a blog on our home for the next 3 months, well 2 months now because we have nearly been here for 4 weeks. Our welcoming was really great, everyone here is so lovely. "Hi ya, you alright" is the usual greating which brendan and i have nearly mastered. Everything is "well funny" and "a right mess" but we are slowly working our the lingo. We are set up in our own little house which has been so good, can clean out our packs and not live out of a bag which has been heaven. Since being here we have visited a far few of the surrounding towns including Skipton which was a nice little market town (actually famous for them) we just missed them because we were a little late ... read more
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