Ready to go!
We are all set- alarms went off at 3:40 this morning. Debbie delivered us to the airport and we are all checked in and waiting to board. All very excited 😀 and hopefully able to get some more sleep on the plane.
Whitby
On Tuesday, we travelled to Whitby. It's a town with a few links to NZ and to the Ayling family. Darren's dad was evacuated to Whitby during World War Two, and his great uncle, Les Simpson, owned a butchery on the old cobbled lane that leads to the famous 199 steps up to the abbey. We managed to find the butchers shop- it still has Simpsons written on tiles on the street frontage. The shop is being gutted at present to become a gallery and the builder let us in to have a look- you can still see the rails where the butchers hooks were hung, the tiles on the wall; and out the back the remains of the staircase that lead up to the apartment upstairs- one of my early memories is helping my great uncle wrap some sausages for a customer when I was a wee lad. Whitby's link to NZ is that it was home to Captain Cook, and memorabilia is all around the town - including a replica of the Endeavour that looks convincing from a distance but when you get close up you realise st the "p...
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