grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
Having a good and relaxing time sounds good. Beautiful pictures.Just the packing up and going home in immediate prospect now, (but a slight possibility of coming back next week!).
I'm told there is so much I've missed by not doing more walking, though this doesn't worry me because having had such a good and relaxing time overall, I was going to come back again quite soon anyway, and now I've this crazy idea of coming back next week in order to attend the Great Yorkshire Show, being held in Harrogate twenty or thirty miles away!
One last picture taken shortly after I posted the others this morning,(back home now so this is the last photo for this trip at least).Having a good and relaxing time sounds good. Beautiful pictures.
BeautifulOne last picture taken shortly after I posted the others this morning,(back home now so this is the last photo for this trip at least).
The network of limestone walls doesn't show quite as clearly as I wished, (or as it looked to the naked eye), but the work involved all those years ago, by legions of men, sometimes prisoners of war I believe, building them all is absolutely incredible!:
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I would need someone with me though.ADORE camping out! Unfortunately, the men in my life did not like camping out, so I had to do it by myself.
Unless it was a lone beach, I traveled with just a sleeping bag.
Waking up under tall trees next to a mountain stream, if it be Mexico, Glacier, Yellowstone, or Alaska; is this not life?
Really? In 88, I sold my home in California, took off for a year traveling through the West and Alaska, the Yukon, camping out alone.I would need someone with me though.
Don't say things like that, "cos you never know", (as my dad used to say!),I have not been a world traveler, although born in France to military parents, lived in Germany while a toddler, I have no recollection. I would love to go to Europe and travel around but I would not do well alone. There have been times I have lost in my own area of the world. I have no sense of direction and have the tendency to freak out when I am lost. Will that time come, I don't know, I would like to go if my son and his family could take the trip. A good adventure for them and a fitting last adventure for my life.
Maybe being older makes some people go ahead and do whatever it is they want to do instead of putting it off.Don't say things like that, "cos you never know", (as my dad used to say!),
My friend Bill is now ninety five is contemplating a twelfth visit to New Zealand next year, where his son and family live, (his son being a doctor there having married a girl from the other side of the world).
All that flying would almost put me off going once, but not Bill, it just doesn't seem to phase him so much, (and he was the youngest of thirteen children would you believe, and has a "girlfriend" now!).
Yes, I understand. Recently I read an article about people feeling better due to sleeping outside on the porch. If I had a screened porch and nice weather, I might like that idea. People started building structures to live and sleep for a reason, so I don't feel too spoiled for wanting to sleep inside.Camping is not for me. I would have tried "Glamping" but the opportunity for that fell through. I'm a 4 star (at least) suite hotel kind of girl.
It is a slightly "macho" thing to try to do in my view, especially when you're prone to cramps, and struggle to get up somewhat, and in all honesty I was very very lucky with the weather, the campsite, the owners being a retired farming couple making you so welcome and genuinely wanting to hear about your day!Yes, I understand. Recently I read an article about people feeling better due to sleeping outside on the porch. If I had a screened porch and nice weather, I might like that idea. People started building structures to live and sleep for a reason, so I don't feel too spoiled for wanting to sleep inside.
Another trip away in prospect, though the current heatwave here has put me off going tonight, and put me off the destination I'd planned for at least a day or so till it dolls down a little!That would work for me except for the AC, that is a must have in hot weather. Cold, I can deal, hot is impossible. Fine without the other stuff, a decent sleeping area, food I can cook even on an open fire. If I have some books to read no other entertainment but nature required. I like simple things.
Good thinking, but I believe there is due to be a big drop in temperatures here overnight tonight, and I did think better of it myself yesterday evening when I heard the east of England might be suffering worse temperatures today than where I'm currently living south of Manchester, so put off my journey by 24hrs.@grahamg, it would probably be wise to put it off for cooler temps. At least stay at a place that would have AC at night, if you have to go. The best holiday is a safe holiday. Don't put yourself in any danger!!
The odour of cows costs extra where I come from, though there are variations in sniffing quality to bear in mind too!Roughing it on holiday, (you dont know what you are missing,.....!)
And you can smell cows**t everywhere, no, at my age, hotels for me, Graham.
One more argument in favour of "roughing it a bit" is that three very nice women camped on the same site a couple of days ago, and they seem very interested in my makeshift tent after I'd managed to get it erected.Roughing it on holiday, (you dont know what you are missing,.....!)
And you can smell cows**t everywhere, no, at my age, hotels for me, Graham.