Hello everyone,
I don’t have a proper post for you today as I am off galavanting with a dear friend in one of my favorite parts of the world. The photo above was taken last weekend and I wonder if anyone out there can guess the location?
I’ll be back with you all next week!
You look happy and the background reminds me a lot of a trip I once took to Belgium.
Can I guess, or would that be cheating……..
Great photo. Love the wellies!
Please have a boozy pie (beef and ale) or a steak and kidney pie for me while you are there. So yummy on a rainy day. A pile of fluffy mashed potatoes and some fresh garden peas on the side and then dollops of real tomato sauce. mmmmmmmm.
We will be in London on friday for 4 days, not sure if you will still be around or will be home by then.
Looks distinctly like Yorkshire to me, maybe the Dales. If you’re passing through Nottingham or Leicester let me know, would be lovely to meet you.
Debbie’s right, a beef and ale or steak and kidney pud is well worth it. Or you could have a Yorkshire pudding with beef and gravy and veggies.
If you get the chance (and if you have the money!!) have a look at a Hotel Chocolat too. Oh, and check out our history… it’s old… very, very, very old!
Somewhere in Europe? I’m not good at guessing but very envious of your trip, it looks beautiful out there. Fun outfit!
I think you’re in Eyam, in Derbyshire. Certainly that weather looks familiar.
No sling and a pair of Wellies! Quite the fashionista! Looks like Seattle is was good practice for wherever you are…
Hello Everyone,
Somehow I knew it would be Griffin who figured it out. I was touring the Yorkshire Dales with my best friend, her Yorkshire born/bred husband and sweet little daughter. I do believe that I have found my own personal heaven and intend to bring Phil back to rent a cottage and tromp around the fells. I should also mention that as a child of Herriot, visiting the Dales was something I’ve wanted to do my entire life and it did not disappoint.
The weather was incredibly rainy, even by my standards. I believe I heard the words horizontal rain bandied around a little. Word to the wise or at least fashion conscious; dresses are not appropriate attire for touring the Dales in the fall, no matter how cute those knit tights look with your new Wellies.
What did disappoint (and continues to) is whatever hideous illness I have been laid out with for the last few days. My trips to Derbyshire and now Nottingham have sadly been cancelled. This is the first time I’ve been able to look at the computer for more than two seconds in days. Thanks for the invite Griffin. That would have been wonderful, if only I had the strength or stomach at the moment.
I hope to be well enough for my long weekend in the Lake District. I’ve been reading up on my Wainwright and hope to get a little more use out of my new Wellies before I head back to California and they become obsolete.
Thanks everyone and I am all over the pies and puddings. Well, in a few days when I can take real food again. For now it’s back to bed.
Curlywurlyfi, Welcome to The Endive Chronicles! Are you from Derbyshire?
Jen, The sling was in the car drying off. We were posing on this road overlooking this gorgeous dale, when in literally the blink of an eye we were caught in a torrential downpour that even shocked this Seattelite and the neck rest got completely soaked. It was a bit like wearing a wet pillow.
Hey, I enjoyed your comment on Jamie Oliver and commented back over there. I agree with you completely though and LOVED your opinion. Think you should do an entry about it. Really do.
Such a shame (and a nuisance that you’re down with the lurgi). Take plenty of water and soups. That should flush out the lurgi and then you’ll be ready to rock again! If it’s a cold eat good hearty meals with lots of veggies. If a fever, lots of fluids. If just throwing up… avoid Phil’s shoes!
If you’re going to hire a cottage, I suggest one at Haworth, then you can go out on the wild and windy moors calling out, ‘Heathcliff, oh Heathcliff!’
Britain at this time of year is mostly wet and wild – especially with the warmer winters we’ve been having. Yes horizontal rain is also found in Northern Ireland too! But there’s a reason they are the Lakes… it’s all that rain wot falls on the area!
Definitely walk in the Lake District it’s said to be quite beautiful, but be careful too, violent weather up there can be really treacherous. If you can find someone to go with – or a group to go with, do that. Don’t go up on your own whatever.
Ah a wet pillow… many’s the time I’ve had one of those as I cried myself to sleep remembering how that cad Heathcliff had nicked the last bit of pudding!
Well, I saw the picture and guessed Somewhere in Ireland. And since the question was not “Where Am I?”, but “Where *Could* I Be?”, I was right!
I was surprised to read recently that the leaves in Europe turn yellow in the fall, but not orange and red like New England. Did you notice that?
Rosemary, the leaves do turn red and orange here in Paris.
Just took some fabulous photos today with the fallen leaves all over the cobblestones in all the beautiful autumn colours.
Hi Rosemary, you know I didn’t. I was just so grateful to be in a place that actually experienced fall. I’ll have to look through my photos.
Debbie, the leaves are still green here. I long for real fall. I’ll just close my eyes, sip my cider and pretend that it isn’t in the sixties.
If anybody is still interested, here’s something about the leaves
http://www.sciscoop.com/fall-colors-and-autumn-leaves.html
(We had our first snow today — never mind red or yellow, all is white.)