
2025 – July – Yorkshire – Travel & Day 1
Our planned early start for our drive up north was put back an hour after Karen’s sister said she couldn’t

Our planned early start for our drive up north was put back an hour after Karen’s sister said she couldn’t

The drive back to Atlanta was easy enough without any of the horrendous hold ups that had been predicted by

This morning the elderly lady demonstrated that she had been practising overnight her Paddington hard stare at anyone who dared

We didn’t have the best night’s sleep as Karen was in some discomfort overnight with what we are still hoping

After a good night’s sleep, we enjoyed the usual Holiday Inn Express breakfast. They provided small paper grab breakfast bags

Our final breakfast in what Karen was still calling Cell Block H was as the other days except we got

‘It’s Dollywood day – baby’ We were in breakfast early ready for our exciting day ahead. The very old lady

After deciding all the reviews were correct about how comfortable the beds are, we made our way down for our

Long drive moving day meant we didn’t hang around long having breakfast and we were packed and moving for the

It was a lazy slow start to the day as we were in no hurry to get anywhere in particular.

We didn’t have a sleep in at the Sleep Inn Hotel, instead we were down for breakfast at 8am. Breakfast

After a good nights sleep our breakfast this morning consisted of porridge made in the hotel communal microwave and jolly

“I hear her voice in the morning as she calls me” saying ‘what are we doing for breakfast?’ as soon

“What day is it” asked Pooh “It’s today” squeaked Piglet “My favourite day,” said Pooh Today was the first of

The usual jet lag meant I was wide awake by 5.30am and catching up on news from home on my
Oh dear – the morning after the night before was bad enough when I was younger but at my now

A whole month a home – well almost. We’ve had birthday celebrations: There have been a silly amount of other

It was a turn right sort of day but again we were in no hurry to get going even if

Whisper it quietly but today I got out of bed carefully without the nerve in my back being pinched. It

I was not in a good way when trying to get out of bed. I was reluctant to take another

We set off for Stansted at a leisurely time of 9.15am. I found it painful to even get into the

It was another early start for breakfast as the plan was to utilise the Hop on Bus passes one final

I woke to discover that Rory had finally completed the Golf grand slam which was very pleasing. We discussed whether

It was a lovely bright day as we pulled out of the drive on time at 8.15am for the drive

Incipit Adversus For the non-Latin readers that means a bad start to something. 2025 was certainly Incipit Adversus for us.