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Fat Rascals at Bettys Staying Put
Over years of travel to many places, we gradually settled on a style that can be called "find a good place and stay put". We have more satisfaction and enjoyment when we find suitable digs in a pleasant setting, and then doing most of our traveling from there. This is the plan we followed in May and June of 1995. We had traveled in Yorkshire previously and yearned for a longer visit there. So, we picked the old spa town of Harrogate located near the start of the Yorkshire Dales, narrowed living options (with the help of friends in Leeds and a local broker of holiday cottages), and finally leased what the landlord called the Coach House, which in reality was his remodeled garage, and looked forward to "living" there for a month. We decided to approach our adventure as a sabbatical leave, that is to set some personal goals, and to pursue them actively, if not compulsively.
One of our activities was to record and describe some of our adventures and observations, and one method we used was email. What follows are selected emails sent to friends from the Coach House in Harrogate and other sites. Most of the people on our short mailing list also sent us email. Receiving them was at least as much fun as writing ours, but the incoming email is not included here. It is difficult to overstate the pleasure that email provides when traveling abroad, or anywhere for that matter. But especially abroad. Pieces take the form of a Tuesday Letter, which was simply the continuation of a short email piece we have sent to an alias list each Tuesday for since 1993. The reason for selecting Tuesday is that it seemed to us the day that gets short shrift. Saturday and Sunday speak for themselves, Monday is the beginning day, Wednesday it’s half over, Thursday, if you play it right can get you a head start on the weekend, and Friday, if you have any imagination at all, kicks off the weekend. That leaves Tuesday. We thought an email letter on Tuesday morning would brighten the day and so it continues. |
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