Detours and posh roadkill

Today we drove to Whitby.  Via Norwich.  Which isn't the usual route but we didn't yet have a map.  Nowhere we have stayed or the car hire place gave us a map, even though it would be a really good idea.  We did pick up a map book at a Shell near Norwich which is where we discovered we had gone slightly off course.  No worries though as we had all day.

After a bit of map reading skill by yours truly, we ended up in York.  We went up to the Minster for a look around.  What an amazing building.  We got in for free because Alison showed them her vicar card and I told them I was the friend of  an Anglican Priest.  And it worked!  The choir were rehearsing for Evensong and they sounded beautiful.  It seems to have worked out to be a church per day over the last week!

It turns out that our detour may have been quite fortuitous as there has been some weather up here.  All the way up the A1 it said the A64, which is the route we needed to take, was closed after York and we assumed it was because of flooding as severe weather was forecast for this area.  And certainly there was evidence of some heavy rain.  If we had been a bit earlier then we probably would have been caught up in it all.

On the way up we passed nuclear power plants, solar farms, wind turbines, signs for stags and pheasants squashed on the road.  Howposh is that for roadkill? Now I am tucked up in the Youth Hostel next to Hilda's Abbey relaxing.  I did take some pics out the car window and I have been assured some of them have turned out ok.  I may edit this post and put them on or I may just do a new one.  Let's see what happens.

Tomorrow is another full on day with a drive to Scotland.