After a night of restless sleep, we woke up and gathered our belongings after a quick shower. We dressed in our "Jubilee Gear" that John, Jude and Catherine had given us, so we depicted true tourist style for the long day of flying ahead of us. We ate our leftovers from dinner the night before for breakfast and washed it down with pop from the vending machine. Down at the front desk, we checked out and received a receipt for our stay. We asked the front desk...

The Menace of Manchester On our journey from York to Manchester, an announcement was made that the train would be terminating at Manchester-Piccadilly due to service being completed on the lines and would NOT be continuing to Man-Airport, which is where we were to get off. The announcement also noted that we were to go to the main entrance to find busses to take us to our final destination. We left the station as directed and quickly found a queue (line) of nea...

5-22-12 We woke at half seven and got ready before going down to breakfast, where we had eggs, toast, cold cereal, and juice. Unfortunately we couldn't stomach their delicious full English breakfast that our parents still rave about, 11 years later. We went upstairs and packed up, getting things ready in our bags since we'd be checking a piece of luggage with just our dirty clothes. The carry-ons included all the souvenirs between layers of any clean clothes. We...

5-21-12 We woke up at about 8:30 and showered and packed up our things. Gill also cooked us a Full English breakfast which was fantastic. She then showed us her new greenhouse with all her plants. I wish I could keep a garden like she and Jude have. She also cut quite a bit of rhubarb for Catherine to take with her. Gill also gave Andy and I an ammonite fossil before we left. We loaded Cath's car and waved goodbye to Gill as we headed off to York for the last ...

Woke at 9:00 and got our showers and got ready for the day. Jude and Catherine prepared the infamous full Fried Breakfast for us, complete with fried tomatoes, fried mashed potatoes, mushrooms, eggs, sausage, blood pudding, bacon, and fried bread. Jude also encouraged a slice of toast with orange marmalade to round things off the Yorkshire way. We managed to wobble back to our rooms after all that amazing meal and got our things packed up. Jude stuck her head in ...