Leeds and York

Flooding in the middle of Leeds.















The Victorian Quarter...shopping area in Leeds




























Pink Flamingos at the bird park at Harewood House (More photos of this historic house to come).














On the weekend of the 6th and 7th of August we headed down to Leeds and York for the weekend. Well, Kirsty had actually gone down on the Thursday for work and I joined her on the Saturday. I got caught up in some commuter chaos though. There was flooding near Darlington which is just out of Newcastle. My train was supposed to leave at 7:05a.m but was cancelled. I managed to get on another train at 7:50 but then the train got cancelled when I got to Newcastle station. Nobody knew what was going on and how we were to proceed from that station. Finally got put on another train but that then got delayed at Darlington. We had to wait for an hour for a train to come down from the North as there was only one track open due to the flooding. Then we had to wait for another hour while the second train came down. Then we waited for another half an hour and then we were on our way. Ended up being a 7 hour journey instead of a 3 hour journey. I believe it takes about 6 hours to do the same journey in a car..the train travels at up to 100mph (160 kmh).
Anyway, we had a fantastic weekend. We stayed with Katherine and Alan and they showed us around and we got to see and do lots.