North Trip Day Two

The second day of our trip north began in Bridlington, where the first day ended (makes sense, n'est-ce pas?). After a lovely English breakfast, we said goodbye to Matt and Kyle, who had to return for a youth conference, and headed west to York. We drove from York to Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters and thence over the moors to Preston for the night. We stayed at the Ibis hotel, which we feared would be as spartan as the one in Paris years ago. It was actually very nice and beautifully priced (tightwad again). We had supper in the hotel. We thought it would be microwave fare but it was remarkably tasty and well made.

Breakfast at the Royal Bridlington

Our room was the first floor up, left

Bridlington

The beach at Bridlington is sand rather than gravel

The crew in York

The Shambles

York Market

York Minster

The girlies in front of the Minster

A stolen picture of the Minster interior

Nightly Bile Beans!

Wall walkers

Lovely gardens from the wall

York Minster

Bootham Bar (gate) where our wall walk ended

Low Petergate Street

Stonegate Street

The Buffalo Skinners were an entertaining band

How thoughtful

Some have pasties for lunch

Others chose M&S goodies

The Bronte parsonage in Haworth

Graveyard between the church and parsonage

Haworth Main Street

The Church at Haworth

Looking for Heathcliff on the moors

The gang at the parsonage

One more north day to post, so stay tuned. That's all for now though.

OXO

D.