Sheffield

I spent a couple of days just hanging around Sheffield relaxing and enjoying the company. The local main street has some nice little shops. The butcher has DVDs in his front window along with meat and also some old medals. I also enjoyed looking in the gallery of a Sheffield artist Pete McKee .
On Wednesday n and her friend took me to clumber park for a picnic. We didn't really have picnic because it had been raining but we ate our sandwiches and went for a walk. We accidentally walked for 2 1/2 hours. By the time we realized how far our walk was we were already half way and couldn't cut through to shorten it because there was a lake in the way. It was a really nice walk though. Clumber park is part of Sherwood forest and is where the dukes of newcastle used to hang out. It's nice going on forest walks in other parts of the world because there are so many types of greenery that we just don't have in Australia. I saw squirrels for the first time too. And mole holes. And real holly. We ate raspberries and blackberries off the bush along the way too.
On Thursday N and I caught the train up to York for the day. York is an old walled city with lots of interesting little buildings. Lots of them are very crooked. I climbed up the tower of the minster cathedral which is about 275 winding steps.