Over the last two days we've been exploring.
Friday morning we were up early and drove over to York for the day. Love that city and look forward to returing with my sisters. We bought some pottery from a couple at the local market there and we got to talking to them, they told us to visit the York Art Gallery as David Hockney was showing his Bigger Trees near Water. The painting is composed of 50 panels - it covers the largest wall at the museum.
WOW! truely amazing - this is a must see for anyone living or visiting England. We've always loved Hockey's work, but neither of us were aware of his time spent in North Yorkshire and his series of paintings he did. What a suprise! We watched the entire film that they were showing as well.
So, how do you top a day like that?
Yesterday, we drove over to the Peak District and had a few more wows! Thanks to J from Macclesfield we were able to navigate over to the Chatsworth area; but we actually never went to the Chatsworth house! I know, I know, but we will be back. Instead we went for a beautiful walk near Cubar and Calver area - I'll post pic's later, the rocks and cliff edges provided us some amazing views. We stopped for a much needed jolt of coffee at Ashford in the Water at a cute little tea house where she had an outside garden with chickens of course. Got home around 7:30, thankfully had some great leftovers and I was in bed reading by 9!
Need to clean up before yoga and plan today's itinerary.
1 comment:
Good to see my directions worked and you enjoyed your day out.
If you like walking and hills etc another couple of suggestions which are much closer are Macclesfield forest and Teggs Nose or white Nancy in Bollington - there are some great little walks around this area and some good country pubs too too .... I recommend Sutton Hall in Sutton or the Vale in Bollington
J
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