Ee bah gum, can yer belly touch yer bum? A trip to Yorkshire in England for a few nights. Up in the Yorkshire Dales, where I never was before.
This place is the National Train Museum in York itself, a large sprawling shed, or sheds, filled with old trains and railway paraphernalia. The Mallard of course still holds the world land speed record for a steam train, set in 1938. Not sure exactly what speed it reached but it was close to a million miles per hour.
Above is the Coldstone Cut near Pateley Bridge, a large art installation on top of a hill. You walk up to it and on the other side, surprise, is a large quarry.
This is Brimham Rocks, a large area of weathered sandstone that has been carved into weird and wonderful shapes over many centuries. You have the Dragon and The Giant and The Pentium Processor. Okay, I made the last one up.
Ribblehead Viaduct, built in the 1800s at enormous cost to life, to straddle a valley on the Yorkshire moors. There are 24 arches altogether. Many of the Irish navvies died constructing it, through illness or fighting and are buried en masse in a nearby churchyard.
