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My holiday snaps - more photos post 14

Georgeypudding

Wise Old Thumper
these are a few of the photos I took in the past week, I've still got to upload mums photos which I'll add later :thumb:

On Monday we went to the York Chocolate Story which was fantastic, we learnt about the history of some of the chocolate manufacturers (and lots of samples mmm) then we made our own chocolate lollies and watched a demonstration which was very impressive!
Melted chocolate
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Chocolate in the moulds
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and out of the moulds
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the lolly I made
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then we went for a wander and came across loads of churches and some shops. I found one named Georgina
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and then I found a Christmas Shop and a Cat Shop next to each other!
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little statue above the cat shop
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some church photos
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I had the most amazing gluten free sandwich from here, the bread was just amazing!
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When we sat down to eat we found a Jamie Oliver Restaurant
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Bettys Tea Rooms
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and a very cute dog :love:
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then we went to the Jorvik Centre which was very cool, if you have kids I really recomend it the moving tour was brill
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The next day we went to Scarborough Sea Life Centre

Dory was trying to protect her home from us
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She lived behind this
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Not sure what this is, but it was very striking
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some sort of ray
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then we saw different kinds of jellyfish
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believe it or not these are jellyfish too :shock:
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the Lobster overlord ;)
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Horseshoe crabs
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penguins
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Otters
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Otter tounge
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could they get cuter?! :love::love:
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Seal in the hospital
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Just chillin'
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underwater
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ginormus turtle
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young ray :shock:
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view across the bay
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on the mini train
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the next day we went to the Workhouse Museum, the Police and Prison Museum and the Black Sheep Brewery

a chair used to restrain residents of the workhouse
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a typical room for tramps, tramps could stay no more or less than 2 days at a time
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one of the weirdest things I've seen, I have no idea why there was a front door up there! (not part of either museum but we walked past it while walking between them)
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a trap used on poachers
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a typical prison cell - bigger than the tramps rooms and they got more food in prison than they did in the work house
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lunch at the brewery
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during the brewery tour
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Thursday we went to The Eden Camp, Yorkshire Lavender and a pub called The Tanglewood which had an amazing gluten free menu

there were 24 or so huts like this at the camp which have all been turned in to small museums about various parts of WW2 and one hut about WW1
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one hut was turned in to a U boat
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this one showed the different kinds of bunkers/safe places during the bombing
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this was a street that had been hit during the blitz
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had to try the hat on :lol:
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inmate cards
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typical room for the POWs kept at The Eden Camp
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fire dogs
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a dog wearing a gas mask
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view from the cafe at Yorkshire Lavender
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mega bee!
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it took me forever to get a decent bee photo
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more countryside shots
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the menu at Tanglewood
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my dinner
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and on our last day I finally got some photos of the blackbird that visited every morning :love:
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Looks lovely
I need to start having more UK holidays, it's amazing what's in our own country we don't know about
Chocolate factory looks great :)
 
Great thread. Thank you. Its like having a mini break seeing all those pics. I loved the fire dogs!!!
 
it was a fantastic break, we probably did more than we would have done if we went abroad as it was so easy for us to get around. I do love staycations and we had nice weather all week too :thumb:
 
beautiful pictures, and the fire dogs made me laugh! North Yorkshire is such a wonderful area, We went on holiday for 2 weeks a couple of years back and there was still loads of stuff we didn't see!

Did you know there is a cat trail around York where you can find all the hidden cat statues?
 
Looks as though you saw and did lots :D

Those weird Sea Lifers :shock: Especially the flat fishy with blue spots, I think I should send vibes to him as he obviously has a nasty rash !!
 
beautiful pictures, and the fire dogs made me laugh! North Yorkshire is such a wonderful area, We went on holiday for 2 weeks a couple of years back and there was still loads of stuff we didn't see!

Did you know there is a cat trail around York where you can find all the hidden cat statues?

I had no idea! That's so cool :shock:

Looks as though you saw and did lots :D

Those weird Sea Lifers :shock: Especially the flat fishy with blue spots, I think I should send vibes to him as he obviously has a nasty rash !!

loads and loads Jane! The Brewery was an hour away from where we stayed and probably 3-4 hours away from my home town, while I was waiting to go for the tour I saw a lady walk past and did a double take as she looked like a friend of mine and then I saw her husband :shock: some how, despite not knowing we were both on holiday and staying an hour apart from each other we had booked to go on the tour after their tour :shock: out of the 4 tours they do over the course of the day we managed to bump in to each other it was so strange :shock:

He does look like he's got some sort of tropical disease :lol:
 
couple more..... 16 years ago we visited this SEA Life Center, last time we went we got to feed the rays and I held a star fish which I promptly threw back in to the pool because it felt funny :oops: clearly they learnt from that lesson and now keep the star fish in here so it doesn't get hurt (they have multiple star fish, only one is kept in there at a time and after the day has finished they put it back in the main pool without the tub)
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I had to go for a paddle in the sea, even though the tide was in and it was freezing :lol:
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and my brother took the opportunity to mess around in my wheelchair :lol:
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there seems to be a running theme of me wearing daft hats :lol:
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about 20 - 25 years ago when my Dad was in the RAF he used to guard these bombs, he was amused that they used to be hidden from the public and now they're on display!
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more Yorkshire Lavender
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