There was heavy rain overnight and I wasn’t sure that we should risk a long walk over the moors but I’d been wanting to take the old Haworth road with its scattered farms and pack horse trails.

Stoodley Pike in the distance 

Guess which one I ordered from this menu at the Robin Hood in Pecket Well

Basking on the beach in the Caribbean? No, the Crown in Hebden Bridge

Street scene in Lerwick

The school where my guide James boarded

Outside cabin for the 12 hour sailing from Lerwick to Aberdeen

Au revoir, Lerwick

Reading a book by Ann Cleve’s about Shetland. In was her detective series on tv that first attracted me to these remote islands

Morning in Aberdeen through my cabin window

Changing trains in Preston

First day of Happy Valley Pride

Opening gala was a quiz night at Old Gate

These were tough questions!

Croft house museum

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Neolithic burial mound – Unstan tomb. 5000 years old

Emerging

Inside

Is this a Shetland pony?

Our tour group and guide, Clive. Mull Head nature reserve

Italian chapel constructed by prisoners of war out of 2 Nissan huts. Tromps d’oeuil everwhere

Outside the chapel

Yummy

View from my bed at 10 pm. There’s a jet skier in the bay, Orkney.

Leaving Aberdeen harbour 

Under way

Sunset

View from my hotel Kirkwall 

View from train at Inverkeithing

Creepy! Station Hotel in Aberdeen 

Scottish architecture 

Late evening walk in Aberdeen 

A guided hike to Penistone Hill given by the Brontë Parsonage museum staff in honour of Emily’s 199th birthday.

Heather and heather

Footpath sign in Haworth

Great panoramic view from the top of Penistone hill, one of Emily’s favourite places to hike

Relaxing with afternoon tea after the hike

Waiting for the bus back to Hebden it poured down

This family had been on my bus going to Saltaire via Keighley. On the bus back the mum and dad read them two Dr Seuss books they had purchased at the bookshop in Saltaire Mill. Very sweet.