Scarborough was great, two biggish bays, North Bay where I stayed with mini golf, Sea Life Adventures, Peasholm Park & a mini railway, & South Bay with the trashy amusement arcades, rides & further around was a Spa Centre with orchestra! Both beaches are good for swimming though too cold for me. Peasholm Park was lovely with tracks to roam & it seemed every time I turned a corner there was another view to photograph, lovely wooden carvings too. In between the two bays is a promontory (I think that's what it would be called, could be wrong!) with Scarborough Castle at the top & the ruins of a Roman Signal Tower by the cliff, photos on fb already.
I did a lot of walking around then on my last evening realised I hadn't set foot on the actual sandy beach. So I clambered down to the sand & walked to the other end of North Bay. Btw, North Bay, South Bay? They're as unimaginative as us Kiwis with the North Island & the South Island, eh.
I've been back in Huntingdon for a few days now, did a day trip to Peterborough for a looksee. Again plenty of walking around fens. Great cathedral there with a v unique painted wooden ceiling.
From Wikipedia:
By 1193 the building was completed to the western end of the Nave, including the central tower and the decorated wooden ceiling of the nave. The ceiling, completed between 1230 and 1250, still survives. It is unique in Britain and one of only four such ceilings in the whole of Europe[6] It has been over-painted twice, once in 1745, then in 1834, but still retains the character and style of the original.
If you want to see it you'll have to google it as I didn't take any photos. The Cathedral only allows photography if you buy a licence for £3! I was too mean to pay it, worth looking up though.
Anyway, I've since been to the movies, so prosaic, eh. City of Bones, the first of the Mortal Instruments series, started yesterday & I couldn't miss that as I am currently reading Book Four of that series. Tomorrow I have booked a ticket to 'The Woman in Black', a play showing in London.
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