Surveying her Kingdom

Taken last week at the new forest, on a damp and misty day here in York.

After the Flood

A lot of rain these last few weeks; here is the resulting flood of the river Ouse as it runs through York. That is the medieval Hosptium building on the other side of the resultant lake.

 

Stroll 49 again

The Thurgoland tunnels on the old line to Penistone have been looked after by Barnsley Council and the one is use by the cycle track has got these great lights all the way through. It does mean that the whole thing has the feeling of being a portal to another dimension; I came out unscathed and in the same time zone. One end of the tunnel has LNER on it, (the pre British Rail company) and the other end has British Rail inscribed. 

 

Stroll 49 Chapeltown to Penistone

 After a break of over a month, on account of Christmas, bad weather and dodgy trains the Stroll started again this week. A walk from Chapeltown north of Sheffield through a large forest for most of the 20km of the path, before following the old railway line into Penistone. Good to be back.

A great path through the forest.

House Guest

 A college friend of Danielle's who she had not seen for close on 40 years came to stay with us for the weekend. It was great to have her. She is from Chicago, lives in Atlanta and works in Arizona as a Doctor on a reservation. So an interesting life. We took her to Fountains Abbey on a uniquely dry January day. 

Here are Layla, Danielle and Kim outside Fountains Hall, an Elizabethan House in the grounds of the Abbey, built in part with stone plundered from the ransacked monastry.

Cambridge 2

 

We met up with Nataliia in Cambridge at a cafe near the station. The whole area between the station and the city has been transformed; a big improvement I think.

Cambridge 1

Danielle is a visiting professor for UCL and she gave a talk at Cambridge University last Friday. I went with her and we stayed over the night at the Hotel du Vin where our room had a glass covered 3 metre deep well in the corner. Whilst Danielle spoke, I walked around the city on the paths by the river Cam, and on old railway lines. An enjoyable morning.