truthfully, we could have stayed another few days in whitby and discovered more of the town, but we pushed onward to mount grace priory and then through the north york moors national park. in the park, we stopped for a great 6-mile hike up to a lake called malham tarn. the scenery was, again, stunning.
view during my morning run along the coast.
mount grace priory.
malham cove
hey there, beautiful countryside.
malham tarn
way down.
hiking companions.
really great dogs.
day #5: eyam --> edale via bakewell
our travels then took us to the peak district national park in hopes of finding some, well, peaks. we weren't disappointed. after driving down to bakewell to sample the pudding (and use the internet), we went back to eyam to walk around this very interesting city. there was an outbreak of the plague in eyam in 1665 and it was honorably decided that rather than risk contaminating a larger part of the area, a border would be established around the city to contain the disease. no one was allowed in and now one was allowed out, resulting in 260 deaths in the coming year (the population was approx. 600). certainly it makes one give pause and reflect on how one would react to that situation...
after walking eyam, we headed further into the peak district to edale to take on kinder low, which is not low at all. the way up was difficult, but the resulting view of the surrounding countryside was well worth the effort.
celtic cross in eyam
typical scene... general confusion over which way to go.
not a bad view.
it's calling "shivering mountain" for a reason...
way down.
day #6: edale --> london via lyme park and national coal mining museum
a and i went to lyme park over thanksgiving, but weren't abe to go in the house/gardens. s had yet to make the pemberly pilgrimage, so we detoured a bit to fit this in. after lyme we went up to the coal mining musuem, then made the 4 hour drive down to london where we returned to a's flat exhausted from the walking, traipsing, hiking, running, exploring, adventuring, and trying to figure out the english road system. (only one near death experience) but we were happy. the north done us good.
"to think, of all this i could have been mistress"
another really. great. tree.
1 comment:
How lovely the environs appear from your photographs! When you return from traversing the continent that lays across the pond, we shall reunite over low tea and discuss your many travels.
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OK, but for real, you saw Pemberly? Allow me to mop the droll off the desk as I fantasize about a fictitious character named Darcy and how close you came to him. I'm still searching for my sugar daddy so I can join you over there next month...
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