Category: Road Trip UK
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Road Trip Day #10 Lastingham
We had booked only one night here as that was all that was available on line but they told us that our room was open for the next night if we wanted to stay another day. Our first decision of the day was whether to stay or move on. We decided it would be too…
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Road Trip Day # 9 North Yorkshire Coast to North York Moors
We start day #9 by checking out of our Airbnb and then exploring the surrounding town of Whitby. Whitby is a seaside town split by the river Esk on the North Yorkshire coast overlooking the North Sea. We walk through this picturesque town of narrow winding streets that are situated right on the river and…
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Road Trip Day #8, Ravenscar and Robin Hood’s Bay
We awoke early as we planned on doing an 11 mile hike which Jim had found on the internet. The hike will take us from Ravenscar over the moors to Robin Hood’s Bay and back along the coastal cliffs. The directions we were trying to follow on our phone were very detailed but also…
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Road Trip Day #7, Flamborough Head and Scarborough.
We left York and drove to Flamborough Head which is an eight mile promontory on the Yorkshire coast. We left Flamborough Head going north to Scarborough. We had a drink on the balcony of the (not so) Grand Hotel. The bartender asked us why anyone would come to Scarborough. He was quite young and…
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Road Trip Day # 6,York.
Saturday morning in York started with an exploratory run. When the wall ended we ran around the town’s famous Shambles and market. This is an old narrow market street with overhanging timber framed buildings, some dating back to the 14th century. Shambles is an obsolete term for an open air slaughter house and meat market.…
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Road Trip Day # 5, Lincoln Cathedral
We leave The George Hotel and Stamford early, headed for Lincoln to see another famous cathedral. Lincoln was not on our original itinerary but we have heard so much about it and we are really getting into comparing cathedrals and climbing to their roofs and/or towers. Work started on the Lincoln Cathedral in 1092 and…
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Road Trip Day #4, Stamford
We awoke early and took a 5K run through the medieval streets of Stamford with perfect conditions, cool and dry. We also headed out of town and ran through the pastoral grounds of Burghley House until we were stopped by a road closure due to preparations for the upcoming Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials next weekend…
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Road Trip Day #3, Ely, Boston & Stamford.
We had another breakfast with our host Robin waxing eloquent about many different topics. We packed up our MINI and walked just down the street to The Oliver Cromwell House Museum. Our next stop was back to the Ely Cathedral for a brief visit to The Stained Glass Museum. Jim came up with a great…
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Road Trip, Day #2, Cambridge
After our early morning run we enjoyed breakfast and lively conversation of UK politics with our hosts Robin and Jenny. Today is all about Cambridge. Cambridge University grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the towns people regarding a murder. We started at the Wren…
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Road Trip, Day 1, Ely Cathedral
Monday morning, 26 August 2019; exactly two months have elapsed since our arrival at Redcliffe Square in London and we feel satisfied with what we have experienced in that time. London has grabbed our heart strings even more on this visit and we are not ruling out another extended stay some day. It is…