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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Lehman
Monday, September 15, 2008
Holiday pics
Sunday, September 14, 2008
As a wrap up of posts from our recent holiday in Wales and North York Moor, here is a link to the picture collection page on Flickr.
Goathland
Sunday, September 14, 2008
After four days in Snowdonia, we headed north and east to Pickering and the North York Moors.
Not as dramatically pretty as Snowdonia, but I quite like the bleakness of moors, and there are some hilly bits too. And some super roads
It rained most of the time we were in Yorkshire, but it did [...]
Snowdon
Sunday, September 14, 2008
One of the aims of our holiday to Wales/North York Moor was to do some walking. I used to do this quite a bit when I was younger, but now I’m older, wider and far less fit, so the chances of walking up Snowdon was approaching zero.
Fortunately, the fine people of Wales built a steam [...]
The Prisoner
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Before we left for Wales, my boss’ boss asked me if we’d ever been to Portmeirion. I said that I hadn’t but had heard of this strange place and made a note to visit.
Those of you in your fifth decade or more will know this is where The Prisoner was filmed, a cult TV show [...]
Seiont Manor
Sunday, September 14, 2008
We’ve been back a whole week from holiday but haven’t had much time for posting, so catching up :-)
In North Wales we stayed at Seoint Manor Hotel, and I wrote a bit about it here.
It’s a fair trek from East London, so we travelled part way on the Friday night, stopping at some random motel [...]
Road weary
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Over the last eight days, we and Herman have done 1206 miles, or over 150 miles per day.
That’s about a third of Herman’s total mileage now.
I’m tired, but happy to have done my first major road trip and a bit sad that I won’t be on the road every day for some time.
Home
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The journey home wasn’t as bad as I thought.
We ignored the normal motorway-all-the-way-down route and instead headed toward the Humber Bridge, then on to Lincoln and only hitting motorways at the A1(M) and M11.
We hit a few torrential rain moments but otherwise was dry and traffic-free.
The Humber Bridge was particularly cool. Never seen it before.
Now home… and [...]
Heading home
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Had been a splendid week off, in Wales and here in the North York Moors, but now heading home.
Unfortunately, we’re heading south through the storm heading north, so who knows how long it will take. Hopefully it will take no more than five hours.
Bidet
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Early this week we stayed at Seiont Manor Hotel in Snowdonia.
This is a very nice hotel: quiet, big rooms, four-poster beds, nice views, pool, reasonable room rates, etc, but it had one major flaw.
It was farking expensive to eat or drink there.
A glass of wine for £8? Beer for £4 A sandwich for £8? No thanks.
Also, [...]
