Travel to UK

Sydney to Bangkok was 9 hours of a child next to me screaming for most of the trip! Luckily Bangkok to London, although longer, was without the screams!! Quickly through formalities I was then on the way to central London. I had to get from one station to another and was told to go to platform 16 but none of the platforms had a numbef!! I did end up walking round in circles for a while but finally reached Euston station for a train to Macclesfield (up north).

I was met by my sis and b-i-l and we headed into the town. I actually spent my first two years of teaching here but after all these years I failed to recognise the
place! Had a quick shop in Marks & Sparks - the weather was so hot I needed shorts - before heading to Youlgrave a 45 minute drive up into the Peak district. The fields are yellow as, surprisingly, there's been no rain for a month!

We are staying in a lovely stone cottage and the main village is in the same stone.

Where we are staying.

We had a wander up the stream which is opposite this house and as my sister thought we should go wild swimming - I later called it iceberg swimming after trying to get into the water - so we were prepared.

lce cold swimming hole

In the evening we made the trek up hill to the pub for a meal luckily we could roll back down the hill after dinner.

On Tuesday we headed to Bakewell - famous for Bakewell pudding/tart. It is a cute country town.

 When we returned back to the cottage we had a long walk along the stream, through woods and  across fields. It was cool in the woods but blazing hot in tne open - even the cattle were trying to find shade. Cold beer and a Pimms rounded off the day.

I am enjoying being here in the summer. It must be 10 years since I was last here in summer - such a change from the winter!