Happily Ever After

Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running

Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.

The Old Country

by admin - 17:15 on 30 October 2013

Should Scotland choose independence next September, and its new government decide to send all the immigrants back home to make room for returning exiles, I'll be sent to a good place.

Yorkshire is third on Lonely Planet's list of best worldwide destinations behind Sikkim in India and The Kimberleys in Australia – proof that The Broad Acres really is God's Own Country, although proper Tykes will grumble that it should have come first.

There'll even be a bonus for Matchgirl (assuming she's sent with me) for the Yorkshire Marathon is run in October. Every cloud has a silver lining.

A typical Yorkshire scene, now all the pits, mills, factories and foundries have shut.

Lonely Planet had some good news for Scotland, however, naming it third-best country to visit behind Brazil and Antarctica. Presumably the penguins declared independence from the various countries that used to hold Antarctic territories, although I never heard about it. Secretive lot those penguins.

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