Yorkshire

A few days ago, Svendlemouse, Star, Mackerel and I got a rental car and also our first taste of Primark (cheap but fun store, great for clothes). I only bought socks though.

This car is a smooth drive, but I’m used to my little Starlet which only has four gears so it’s a bit of a change for me. When you are going 80 mph in this one it feels like 80 kmp, so have to keep an eye on the speed. Not that I’m jetting around at 80 mph. Only Mackerel and I are driving it.

So we headed up to york and it was so pretty that we decided to stay there another day. Here is a picture taken with my iPad.

The next day we drove through Thirsk and visited the vet (now a museum) which the novels by James Herriott are based off. I hadn’t read any of his books or seen the TV show “All creatures, great and small”, but it was still very interesting, and I really should read them now.

The car from the tv show.

Then we went to Marton in Middlesborough which has a museum about the birthplace of Captain Cook. The cottage where he was born was torn down by one of Makerel’s ancestors, so they have a commemorative urn in it’s place. However, due to construction being done at the park, it was gone, so we stood on the pedestal and took pictures of each other instead.

What I like about the museums here is they tend to be geared towards school children visiting so have interactive sections.

Next we headed to Whitby, it was a bit cold by now, but we still went up to see the church on the hill here, and it is a very pretty town. Lots of gothic type stuff due to parts of Dracula being based in this town. There are some crazy paved roads among the touristy type shops and we drove through some moors when we left.

The next day we stayed in York and looked at the Minster Cathedral and also the Castle Museum. I didn’t feel like doing a tour of the Minster, so while the others did that I wandered around the Shambles (utterly cute cobbled streets all packed in close), looked into a church fundraiser and had a key lime pie flavored ice-cream.

The Castle Museum was good with some very cool history of York through the ages type things, a whole Victorian style street recreated inside, and also cool to take a look in the dungeons.

Then we drove to Hereford.