Tag Archives: Yorkshire

Travels with Daisy, Part One: Keighley Worth Valley Railway

By NancyD | Published: April 15, 2010
While it is one of my interests, this installment of traveling in the UK with pets is also a bit self-serving.  In an effort to reduce the amount of time I sit watching American television, eating Kraft Mac&Cheese and wishing I was back in the land of the free and the home of the BRAVES, [...]
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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.  In fact, I’m home today because without a car, it was just too dangerous to try [...]
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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 the [...]
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