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Winter Tourism, Volume Two: National Media Museum, Bradford

By NancyD | Published: January 13, 2010
Welcome to another brisk and ever-so-slightly treacherous day in the UK! The weather here in West Yorkshire and, indeed, over most of the country is cold, icy, and threatening more of the same for the rest of the week. I’m in fact home today because without a car, it was just too dangerous [...]
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Winter Tourism, Volume One: Tropical World, Leeds

By NancyD | Published: January 11, 2010
One of the things that many American visitors dream of when they visit the UK is seeing castles, stately manor homes, and other such pieces of antiquity that just aren’t available in our young country.  I remember being amazed when I looked down at where I was standing in Westminster Abbey and seeing a date [...]
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Number Eleven for Christmas in Yorkshire

By NancyD | Published: December 21, 2009
I work in retail (in a mall) and my store is a bus and two trains away. The other day I was working and had popped down to the food court in the mall for some lunch, when I was treated to some lovely Christmas carols performed by a brass band set up by [...]
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Christmas Adventure, in Yorkshire

By NancyD | Published: December 11, 2009
I love ice skating.  I was looking up places to go ice skate (also known as places with warm cafes so my husband can comfortably WATCH me ice skate) and came across The Christmas Adventure which is right here in Yorkshire! Now I can’t speak to it from personal experience (something I hope to rectify [...]
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