I am heading North today to start my new job, the farthest north I’ve been in many years, Leeds in fact. Last time I was in Leeds was for a demo for the Miners Strike in 1984, I wasn’t personally demonstrating, but I was the only one in the students union they could find that could drive the minibus.
I will be living out of a hotel till Friday and as I don’t have a personal lap top , blogging and commentating will be by phone if at all. Just letting my loyal reader know that I haven’t abandoned him/her.
I will be oop there weekdays for the next 4-6 weeks, I probably won’t have much time for exploring, but any tips or places of interest to recommend please do so in the comments.
A friend has already given me one useful tip on how to recognise a dyslexic Yorkshireman, apparently he’ll be the one wearing the cat flap.
TTFN
5 comments:
Good luck with the new job - I was wondering when it was going to start.
Good luck - you'll have a wonderful time.
Visit the Royal Armouries in Leeds at Clarence dock. It's free and it has a programme of fab enactments.
http://www.royalarmouries.org/leeds/
The West Yorkshire Playhouse is a buzzing theatre complex with good cafes and a choice of productions. A good place just to lounge around with a drink and a book. The playhouse is on Quarry Hill, opposite the Bus Station in the centre of Leeds.
http://www.wyp.org.uk/events/list_events.asp
Leeds is also the gateway to the Dales and Moors, both of which are weepingly beautiful. The county is threaded with antique railways kept running by enthusiasts.
http://www.yorkshire.com/inspire/heritage/railways
I wouldn't spend much time in Bradford but it does have the National Media Museum, free entry but you pay for the IMAX tickets.
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/
And Salt's Mill at Saltaire
http://www.saltairevillage.info/
another good place to hang about and only pay for coffee.
If you like the Brontes you could visit Haworth which does plenty of other events too.
http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/events/events.asp
The main difficulty is that there are some terrible eyesores in Leeds/Bradford so you just have to learn to ignore these because there is so much else to do, such as going up to the seaside for a day at Scarborough or Whitby or visiting the fleshpots of Harrogate and York, or having a curry.
You can eat bad food in Yorkshire if you insist, but in general the quality of basic foods - fish, pork, poultry, vegetables, bakery goods, beer - is extremely high because you are close to the source of production. Mr Raft believes that if things get bad in Britain, Yorkshire is the place to head for because that's where the dinner is.
Good luck!
Be indispensable :-)
Good luck, and congrats on the new job!
WoaR has covered all the basics, without a doubt, but try the fish & chips (cooked in dripping - heaven!) in any chippy, and you'll swear off vegetable oil forever more!
If in Harrogate, you have to visit Betty's Tea Rooms, I think it's a town by-law or something.
Sadly, they closed down the Fylingdales Early Warning Radar station. A trip across the moors in my childhood was never complete without a chance to be the first one to spot the 'Golf Balls'...
Welcome to oop north but it's not quite as pictured here. Close but not quite. :)
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