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We started the day with a delightful full English breakfast served by our congenial hosts at the Glendale House, which consisted of cereal, coffee and tea, orange juice, toast, eggs, sausage, bacon, grilled tomato, and fried toast. Needless to say, lunch was pretty much an afterthought. After finishing our breakfast and saying our goodbyes, we headed over to the small train station in Goathland. (Pronounced like a place you’d expect to find Marilyn Manson acolytes, though none were in evidence.) Apparently that station was a train station in one of the Harry Potter movies, though having not seen any of them I can’t be sure. Goathland was also the set for some English TV drama called “Heartbeat” and the town is littered with memorabilia from the show. But back to the train station — we took a ride on the train up to Grosmont and back which took us through some scenic parts of the North Yorkshire Moors. After returning to the station in Goathland we struck out south where we stopped to admire the ruins of an old church and castle in Pontefract. The castle was where Richard II was killed. Next we stopped at the Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe, which was the childhood home of Isaac Newton. That turned out to be a pretty cool place to visit — they had found drawings on the walls suspected to have been done by Newton, and the apple tree (yes, THAT apple tree) still grows in front of the house. From there we made our way the rest of the way back south into London…and that’s when the trouble started. We’ve been using GPS + Microsoft Mappoint for directions which has always served us well. The problem is that the streets of London are in various states of disrepair and construction which the GPS just doesn’t know about. Further complicating matters is that street signs, if they exist, are placed pretty much willy-nilly somewhere in the general vicinity of the street corner, but not necessarily anywhere conspicuous. I’m sure you can imagine by now we had more than a little trouble finding our way back through the city to the rental office to drop off the car. My advice? Rent a car at the airport so you don’t have to drive in the city. That ordeal behind us, we checked into our hotel and then had a delcious dinner at a place called “Grumbles” a few blocks from the hotel. Tomorrow we hop on our cruise ship which will take us to the Orkneys, the Faroes, Iceland, and the Shetlands before dropping us back in London. Pictures from today are uploading now.
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