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So I really didn't know where I was going all the time. The roads and towns were not on my map. I then went up to Selby and to York. York was quite nice, an old wall around the town, and the York Ministry which dates back to 600 AD. One of its stained glass windows dates back to 1100 AD, said to be the oldest glass in England. I would like to have stayed a day or two but I was not making good time as it was, so I only stayed a couple of hours. I continued north thru Thirsk and then south to Stockton. I had hoped to make Edinburgh the next day.
Well a tent is quite a luxury. I had picked it up from Allison in London with other sundrys of mine I had left with her when I put her on the ferry in Spain or France. This last night I
camped wild without it roadside. Sometime in the night an open semi dumped about a ton of cabbage onto the side of the road. That woke me and kept me awake about an hour. They were reloading it in the morning. From the way it looked I thought it should take them all that day.
Thursday the same morning as the cabbage affair it was one beautiful day. I had two lamb chops for supper the night before and eggs and bacon for breakfast next morning. It was nice to be able to walk into a butcher shop and ask for what you wanted in English. Since butchers on the continent generally do not speak English, I generally didn't know what I was pointing at nor eating.
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