Tuesday, July 9: We left Guisborough this morning and took a very scenic drive over the moors to Pickering, on to the charming town of Helmsley, and then got on the motorway for the rest of the drive to Leeds. Once again, our GPS got us exactly where we needed to be. We checked in to our hotel, and Brian and Jean came to pick us up and take us to their home. They live in the most compact flat I have ever been in on a very narrow street. (The next time we go to En...

Tuesday, July 9:  We left Guisborough this morning and took a very scenic drive over the moors to Pickering, on to the charming town of Helmsley, and then got on the motorway for the rest of the drive to Leeds. Once again, our GPS got us exactly where we needed to be. We checked in to our hotel, and Brian and Jean came to pick us up and take us to their home. They live in the most compact flat I have ever been in on a very narrow street. (The next time we go...

Saturday, July 6: We packed up, had breakfast, and set out for Guisborough and the home of our friends Sonia and John Greenwood. The planning wasn't the best on my part, and we got tangled up in a great deal of local traffic in the towns north of Manchester. I hadn't realized how urban it is almost all the way from Manchester to Leeds. We took the motorway from Leeds to Thirsk and then a secondary road to a small one lane road which took us through some lovely co...

Saturday, July 6:  We packed up, had breakfast, and set out for Guisborough and the home of our friends Sonia and John Greenwood. The planning wasn't the best on my part, and we got tangled up in a great deal of local traffic in the towns north of Manchester. I hadn't realized how urban it is almost all the way from Manchester to Leeds. We took the motorway from Leeds to Thirsk and then a secondary road to a small one lane road which took us through s...