i went 2 bronte country with michelle (who came up from london 2 visit n travel :D) ytd, and it was a wonderful trip. physically exhausting, challenging, but well worth it! we walked about 7miles on the moor. so tired... n my body is aching today (after not exercising 4 so long, lol)
anyway here r e photos i took. more r uploaded on my facebook. for those who wanna noe, bronte country is near where the famous bronte sisters (writers) lived during their tragically short lives. top withins is said to have been an inspiration for charlotte bronte's wuthering heights.
two words to describe the landscape of the moors: desolate n bleak. yummy! :P
anyway we 1st arrived at keighley rail station
it's really much smaller than the rail station at leeds, being a tiny town..jpg)
we took a bus 2 haworth, to visit the bronte parsonage museum, which is the house where the bronte family lived in. very nice n small, but photography inside not allowed....jpg)
michelle pointed out snowdrops 2 me. pretty!.jpg)
a church beside the bronte's house (and a cemetary too).jpg)
next we got on the bus to stanbury where the walk starts.jpg)
this is the moor! (part of it, anyway).jpg)
nice, cloudy, not too cold weather.jpg)
alot of steep slopes, we had 2 walk up n down, up n down. plus it rained e day b4, so some parts were pretty darn muddy... a challenging walk, but we took a pace we could handle, n the view is totally worth it!.jpg)
sheep!!! haha... so cute. dotted all over e landscape. they're jus happily eating away all day..jpg)
a look at how far we'd come from (we nearly fainted at that sight :P).jpg)
look at the plants in e foreground n u noe how strong e wind is.jpg)
interesting forest in an otherwise flat n bleak landscape....jpg)
this is top withins!!! a ruin is here. rather interesting....jpg)
so of cuz i had 2 take a photo here :) like scaling a mountain haha....jpg)
nice trees huh?.jpg)
after we reached e top (withins), we went down another muddy treacherous route to the waterfalls. by then i was too tired 2 take more photos so i only took some at the falls. before we could get to the falls we had to go down this steep slope, past the rocks in the foreground. not easy....jpg)
rapids. actually we'd been hearing the streams all e way from top withins. geog students would love it (which michelle is anyway). really interesting..jpg)
a cute little bridge along the stream.jpg)
looking back up where we walked down from. scary huh? we had 2 walk back up 2 return anyway..jpg)
beside the water fall was this plaque. it's so cool! e top part is from psalm 104:24. wonderful!.jpg)
the falls (i noe, not very clear, sorry).jpg)
some other things tt struck me were the friendliness of e ppl here. we were on e bus, unsure of where 2 stop when this old man behind us heard our conversation, n directed us on where 2 stop. when we were at the museum, this old lady in front of us suddenly turned ard n asked if we were japanese. lol. but she knew we didn't really look japanese. n we chatted 4 awhile. at the falls, there were a few ppl taking some chinese students from preston 4 a day trip. while waiting 4 them, they were chatting with us. one of the ladies actually greeted us by saying ni2 hao3 (how r u). so sweet! so i was really very pleasantly surprised at e warmth of e ppl here. on the whole a very nice day trip :)
