Ramblings of a woman back from holiday

Date: 17 August 2008 19:00:41

I'm back from a holiday I didn't tell you I was going on. It must have worked because you haven't come and burgled the house while I've been gone, so that's good. Unless you have taken something I haven't noticed yet, and left the house looking much the same as always - a bit of a mess - if you do ever burgle would you mind doing a bit of cleaning and tidying while you're here? Thanks. Actually, I don't think you are going to steal anything but I'm over cautious.

Anyway, we went to the North - of England, not the world. We were prepared for wet weather and got some, but remained rather confused because the weather reports kept telling us how wet it was going to be and it wasn't. Apart from when we were arriving in York - that was extremely rainy, in a 'I can't see where we're going' type way, Durham was also very rainy but in a more persisting it down type way, steadily, except apparently it stopped for the afternoon, but I've blocked that out.

I confess to you here and now that I have been rather lazy on holiday this year, I blame my energetic start to the summer holidays. We did see quite a bit of York though and climbed the tower at the Cathedral which is something I love to do - climb high towers rather than York specifically. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so didn't take any photos of it, we went to the National Railway Museum, which I didn't find quite as uninteresting as I thought I would. I did leave early to go shopping though. We went on the wheel there which is a bit like a cross between a fairground ride and the London Eye.

We went to Holy Island and met with beautiful sunshine, we went to Durham (as I said) and laughed at a priest as he walked in to take communion. I don't normally laugh at such things but it really was very silly. I could try and describe it to you I suppose.

I'll write it down then read it back, if it's not here it's because I didn't do the moments justice.

... it was rubbish - sorry.

We went to the beaches in Northumberland a few times, had a bit of a bad experience when we first arrived at the flat we were renting (the cleaner hadn't been in and we had no clean sheets and towels, and couldn't get hold of the owners, we used the washer/drier in the end and the cleaner came the following day - but not something you want to think about at 6pm on a Saturday evening), we ate lots of food - probably a lot too much food and watched some Olympics.

I'm around for a while now but will have to think about work briefly on Thursday before not going away anywhere again for a few days over the bank holiday.