This is the pier at Saltburn-by-the-Sea at 4:48am on Monday.
And that’s it at 9:19pm the night before. No wonder we need a rest sometimes!
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Day Off in Durham
After a fairly frantic week on the Northumberland coast we’re just outside Durham and having a day off – apart from laundry and photo processing, that is! We’ve had lots of 3am alarms to get to the beach an hour before sunrise, and on one of those days didn’t get to bed until 11pm so a rest was needed.
Yorkshire Dales, Lake District, Hadrian’s Wall
We left Yorkshire on Sunday and drove through the Yorkshire Dales. It was beautiful, so we decided to ignore it and make a seperate trip for it later. We were keen to get to the Lake District. Above is Langdale from Stickle Ghyll, a steep climb! if you can imagine a rock staircase about a mile high, in a howling gale. There were a few sunny moments, this was one.
Stratford-upon-Avon
On our way north again, this is the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford, with obligatory swan. All the schoolchildren in France seem to be touring England just now, and there were plenty around here.
Jurassic Coast
The Dorset coast is called the Jurassic Coast, and here’s some of the reason why. It’s a large ammonite fossil (Linda’s boot for scale) on a platform at Kimmeridge Bay. It’s probably about 150 million years old, and there are plenty more like it around there.
Corfe Castle
There seems to be a bank of smog hanging over the whole of southern England, making everything far away look faint and hazy. We are going to turn back north, no point being here when the weather is so unphotogenic. Don’t know how long it will take, depends how things look on the way. We will pick up our stuff in Yorkshire, Colin will look at a few niggles on the van, then we will head north.