Highlights
- Town of Bakewell
- York Minster
- Beamish Open Air Museum
- Durham Cathedral
- Alnwick Castle (and The Cookie Jar hotel)
- The Royal Mile (including Holyroodhouse Palace and the restaurant La Locanda)
Other Thoughts
- The town of York would be worth another visit.
- Taking part in guided tours of places was definitely better than trying to do-it-ourselves. I include the cobbled-together self-tour of the Royal Mile I built from a couple of sources as a guided tour.
- We think our next trip is likely to involve fewer destinations. We did literally live out of our suitcases for the 1st week and that wasn’t great.
- Mixed feels about driving. It gives so much flexibility for trip planning, but introduces its own stresses.
- Virgin Atlantic Premium Economy was TOTALLY worth the extra costs. Those 21” wide seats and tons of legroom made flying quite pleasant. I think we’re too old now for anything less.
- Speaking of being old, we don’t adjust to timezone changes like we used to. We THOUGHT we had fully adjusted by the 3rd day, but we kinda regressed a bit and didn’t really adjust until about the 5th day. We never adjusted enough to have a serious appetite at breakfast time.
- Although we had anticipated sightseeing with the backpack, we actually never took it on the road. We carried our jackets when needed and a few purse-sized items. (The backpack was still a great item to have with us – the perfect airplane carry-on and better than a rolling carry-on.)
- We got lucky - Eileen didn't get Covid until 4 days AFTER we came home, although likely exposed to it on the trip.
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