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.
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.
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.
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.
Bournemouth is not really an attractive place. Look at the buildings they have chosen to line their seafront. 1960’s block architecture?
Yes, there are crowds at Stonehenge! 3.30 this afternoon, after we’d spent the morning scouting Salisbury.
Photo is Avebury, but we are now at Stonehenge. You know what that looks like. Weather still great. I was looking at some postcards yesterday, and I realised that writing this blog is just like sending postcards!
We have been at Bath for the last couple of days. What a great place! The weather is wonderful, we have been to the Roman Baths which is really interesting. They have amazing computer generated reconstructions, you stand on a particular spot and look at a screen, and how it used to be appears on the screen, with buildings, people and all.
We’re on the move at last, and in Worcester for a couple of days. The weather hasn’t been too spring like, mostly dull, but a bit brighter this morning. We’ll probably stay another night here and then head south again.
The van is working out well, most of the things are sorted out now, but we miss the space in the bus! (But not trying to park it!)
