Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet was born in England and rediscovers the ‘forgotten North’ of England where he visits Leeds - the knightsbridge of the north, Liverpool - the 2008 European capital of culture, and Manchester, the city of history, music, arts and football.
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Lonely Planet author George Dunford sums up Edinburgh. More Europe than Britain probably because of the month-long Edinburgh Arts Festival every August, the city is sophisticated Scotland. Pub culture is the backbone of society, making it easy to meet locals. Try scotch or hand-made Real Ale but steer clear of football in conversation until you find out which team they go for.
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September 12th 2008: Only last week, transatlatic airline Zoom who run, actually, better make that “ran“, package holidays between the UK and the USA announced that they had gone into receivership leaving thousands of passengers out of pocket or stranded abroad. They have since blamed creditors for their downfall and said that the chances of resuming operations are “slim”.
And this week, the XL travel firm who also operate package holidays and have their own airline also appear to have, forgive the pun, crashed and burned.
The message here I guess is, while obviously wanting cheap holiday deals, be careful who you book through and in these somewhat turbulent times, perhaps it’s safest to pay a few dollars more and go wih a name you trust. I’m booked on an Easyjet flight in two weeks, followed by a Virgin flight in November, and I’ll eat my hat if either of them don’t last out!
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This international collaboration would not have been possible without the wonderful generosity of Anthony Padbury his fiancee Dominika and the terrific people at the Goathland website Andy.
Thank You so much it was a great deal of fun for me to do this small clip from across the pond and having been a child before there were even digital watches makes it magical.
Dan
Goathland is a village in the North York Moors national park England. It is due north of Pickering off the A169 to Whitby It is surrounded by beautiful scenery and has the advantage of having a station on the North Yorkshire Moors steam railway line North Yorkshire Moors Railway
It is a private charitable trust with a number of paid staff but mostly operated by volunteers, running nearly all the year including at Christmas It carries upwards of 250000 passengers a year
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