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Travels of a Bear (with splendid fur!)

Escape to York

Added on 05 April 2025

Dear Reader,

After particularly dull winter (Ok, I may have hibernated through much of it, but Uncle Les and Auntie Fiona have told me all about how grey and gloomy it was) it is great to be out and about again. This time I’ve returned to Yorkshire, which (according to my very detailed records) I first visited in 2019.

We’re staying in an apartment near the National Railway Museum. It’s quite big (the apartment, not the Railway Museum – but actually that is as well, but it’s not what I’m talking about here) and I have a lovely purple sofa all to myself on which to sit and snooze on on. It’s been a bit windy and chilly on the first day, but things should improve after the weekend (according to the weather people and my innate bear-meteorological knowledge – well, we have to know when to hibernate and when not to!).

[You seem to have forgotten how to write (more or less) sensibly, Big Ted]

Apartment location in YorkThere are lots of roadworks near here which are all part of York Central “one of the UK’s largest and most exciting city centre regeneration schemes” – they are also very annoying! The apartment I stayed in was in the middle of all the works – I’ve shown it with a line and a white asterix in this picture on the right [I think you mean “asterisk”; Asterix is a character from a French comic book series, Big Ted!]. The works are shown in blue (or is it green?).

Despite the roadworks, I visited 10 St Mary’s churches, in varying states of repair, which is surprising ‘cos I’m s’posed to be cutting down now I’m over 500! You can read all about them on my Yorkshire page (they’re churches number 511 to 520). I’ve now visited 24 St Mary’s churches in Yorkshire.

Big Ted on a bridge over the River OuseOn the last day of my visit, Uncle Les took this photo of me on a bridge over the River Ouse. I think it’s rather a good photo – the sun makes my splendid fur look particularly splendid – and Auntie Fiona says that if you squint a bit, it looks as though I was in Venice (which I’ve been told is some wet place in Italy).

And now I’m back home, I’ve got to plan my next excursion. I hope it stays sunny.

Love, Big Ted

< Happy Christmas everyone!
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