I'm still catching up with myself after my last few posts. Casting my mind back a couple of weeks, it was half term break. We were still suffering the after effects of whatever the nasty winter bug was (with Mum and little Miss suffering the effects for a few weeks more), and definitely weren't on form. A while back, however, I'd booked a decorator to do my hall landing and stairs. The last frontier of decorating in my house and definitely one I wasn't willing to try myself. My Edwardian ceilings are far too high for that! Knowing this would be disruptive, I'd also booked an apartment in York for the week, so I waved goodbye to home sweet home, packed up the car and off we went. Having left home in the early afternoon, we set off to York. We arrived a bit earlier than our check in time so spent some time at Monks Cross. I found (well Mum found for me) a lovely skirt in the charity shop. We picked up some food and then set off for the apartment. Unfortunately, afte...
If Saturday had been about exploring everything Durham had to offer, Sunday was a laid back day for wandering and taking photos. Thanks to our late check out time, we were able to take Sunday morning at leisure. We opted to fill up at breakfast time, the logic being that we'd already paid for the cost of our breakfast with our room fee so if we ate heartily, we could avoid spending more at lunchtime. We understood the mission, and checked out with full tummies, once again leaving our bags at the hotel so we were free to wander. First up, I was keen to walk along the river to see if I could get some images of the river with the Cathedral above it. The weather was glorious, we were actually getting hot on our walk. Unfortunately for the chap, my rediscovered love of photography meant he either turned around to find me half a mile behind him, having stopped to capture something, or turned around to be faced with a camera. Jokingly he asked me a few times how many frames I had l...