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Christmas in England 2006
"You
are going WHERE
for Christmas??? Are you totally mad??? It will be cold, wet,
and the sun
hardly gets above the horizon!!! The driving will be difficult, the
motorways
will be crazy with pileups in the ice....."
You
would have thought we were planning
on Alaska, but it was England we decided to visit for Christmas. The
northern
part, mind you, arriving in Manchester, driving to York for Christmas
then
moving south to Nottingham and Rutland, then back to Manchester.
As
with my other travel records, the trip
is presented here as a travel
diary, with notes about each day or place and selected photographs. The
diary is divided
into daily files so you can read through the day then go to the
record for the next or previous day.
Paul,
July 2007
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Days
1-4
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Fri 22 Dec
2006
to
Mon 25 Dec 2006 |
Arrive Terminal 2 Manchester 6am. Pick up Rental
Car at airport terminal. Drive north on the M6 to Preston, then across
to York for
Christmas
|
| Day
5 |
Tues 26 Dec
2006 |
Drive
north to Wensleydale |
| Day
6 |
Wed 27 Dec
2006 |
North to
Middlesborough, Redcar |
| Day
7 |
Thurs 28
Dec 2006 |
Whitby,
Humber Bridge to Chesterfield |
| Day
8 |
Fri 29 Dec
2006 |
Matlock
(Archives), then on to Nottingham |
| Day
9 |
Sat 30 Dec
2006 |
Nottingham,
Bridlesmith Gate and Goodliffe locations |
| Day
10 |
Sun 31 Dec
2006 |
Nottingham
General Cemetery and Sandiacre |
| Day
11 |
Mon
1 Jan
2007 |
New
Year's Day - Belton in Rutland, Barrowden, Braunston. Family history of
the Goodliffes |
| Day
12 |
Tues
2 Jan
2007 |
Fotheringhay
Castle, St Ives (more Goodliffe history) then back to Rutland and our
meeting with Elizabeth and Arnold's Original Book. |
| Day
13 |
Wed
3 Jan
2007 |
Middle
Harborough to Derby, St Alkmunds in Duffield, then on to
Ashbourne |
| Day
14 |
Thurs
4 Jan
2007 |
A day in
the Peak District - Carsington Water, Brassington, Stanton in Peak and
the Nine ladies Stone Circle and the Cork Stone; another
Stone Age relic at Arbor Low, then the Church of St Edmund at Fenny
Bentley. |
| Day
15 |
Fri
5 Jan
2007 |
Moorcroft
Pottery in Stoke on Trent, then back to Derbyshire and Thor's cave in
the late afternoon sun. |
| Day
16 |
Sat
6 Jan
2007 |
A walk
along Dovedale, then a night in Buxton |
| Day
17 |
Sun
7 Jan
2007 |
More of
the Peak: Monsal Head and the viaduct, Ashford in the Water, Magpie
Mine, the Plague Village of Eyam, then on to Froggatt Edge and another
stay at Chequers inn, Froggatt Edge. |
| Day
18 |
Mon
8 Jan
2007 |
A wet day
in Hathersage, over Snake Pass to Glossop, then on to Manchester
Airport and the trip back to New Zealand via Singapore. |
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