Last Sunday, we took the road from Pickering up to Whitby across the North Yorkshire Moors. On the way, we went to Grosmount to see where the steam train passes through, visited the cottage where Captain Cook undertook his apprenticeship (now a museum) and walked to the Abbey ruins.
Sophie and Will had a great start to school on Monday and have made plenty of friends. They were both given 'looker-afterers' who made settling in easy. They are coping with a few subjects that they haven't faced before, including Latin and Sophie is learning to play rounders, which is like softball. Will is enjoying cricket and spent an hour or so in the nets this afternoon. He has been invited to two different roller skating birthday parties.
We have been exploring the walking trails and ended up out at Sheriff Hutton, where there are castle ruins. We originally hired a medium sized car to fit all of our bags and went into York on Wednesday to swap it over to a longer term lease on a smaller car. John's cousin, David, came to visit today and took us out to Castle Howard to see a veteran car rally. Some of the cars were worth up to 1m pounds and were driven by people from all over Europe and even the US. David brought his two spaniel dogs with him and Sophie enjoyed playing with them after school.
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| The moors railway |
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| The moors |
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| The moors |
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| Driving through the moors |
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| Red grouse on the moors |
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| Captain Cook Museum |
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| Captain Cook Museum |
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| Whitby Abbey |
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| Whitby |
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| Wet foggy walking trail |
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| Starting school |
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| Driven from 'Peking to Paris' in 1997 |
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| John and his cousin David at the rally |
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