We brought the boat back into Ellesmere on Monday night and moored just at the Ellesmere arm of the canal in a nice spot. On Tuesday morning, we had a lovely day of shopping in Ellesmere, browsing every store that was there.
We set out originally to see if there, by chance, would be a yarn store there. Lauren was smart enough to ask a lady at the Ellesmere information desk, and sure enough - much, much to my surprise because I had looked for one on the Internet - there was a needlework shop just across the street that carried "wool" - the British word for yarn, no matter if it's 100% acrylic. My lucky, lucky day. Had the Information lady not told us, we would probably never would have found it because the window of the store had clothing in it - and not even knitted clothing. The owner of the store had surprises inside - yarn and needles and other knitting supplies.
I bought four lovely 100 gram skeins of "wool" - two of which actually had some wool content. I'm making hats and headwarmers - just small things, and it really helps to keep my hands busy. It makes me feel very content. So far, I've made two hats and one head warmer, and I have a second headwarmer about half done.
We're in York now, and we have Internet. I'm catching up with posting pictures to Flickr. I'm glad I got them all organized so well while we were on the boat because it will take much less time had I not done so - and it's taking long enough as it is. I take too many pictures, I know, but I always think there's something in the picture I'm about ready to throw away that someone else might see and be interested in. However, I do have a lot of duplicate-like pictures that I'm posting now, and I'll probably go through a delete some of them when I finish posting. I took several hundred pictures last week.
York was only about 2-1/2 hours from Ellesmere, and we arrived here shortly after noon. It was a good morning for driving, and our GPS has been really reliable in getting us to the right exit and the right turn off the round-about. We're at the Gateway to York hotel in Kexby - a little place near York, and it's really nice, quaint, and cozy. We saw signs that said "Park and Ride," and we inquired about it at the hotel desk. Sure enough, our curiosity was rewarded. You drive to a car park, park you car, and a bus comes along every 10 minutes to drive you to the town center of York - no mess with traffic or finding a parking place. So we did just that about 3:00 this afternoon - just about the time it started to rain. We did a little foot tour of York, just to get a feel for the layout of the city, and we came back to our room soaked!!! But we're glad we did it. It will make our touring much better tomorrow when, we hope, the weather is more friendly to browsers in the city.
No pictures with this blog - be sure to check out flickr and see where I got with my postings. We've seen some beautiful, beautiful countryside!!! We are ready to go again. It was with sorrow that we left our boat this morning. We had a most lovely week.
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