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Alright! So starting from where I left off. I got off the train in York, nothing exciting there. They even had an elevator! From there I found a pay phone and called my cousin who was going to meet me. Of course as with all plans, something went wrong. There was a miscommunication so she wasn't there but since I have a BritRail pass and no phone, it was much easier for me to hop on the next train to Harrogate and meet her there then it was for her to get to York and have to try and find her then.
So I got onto a new train and in roughly 45 minutes got to Harrogate. Well, after waiting for like 45 minutes for the train to arrive. Once in Harrogate I found my cousin quite quickly and we walked a little bit to get a taxi to bring my stuff back to my Uncle's house.
We sat around for a bit then decided to go eat. We ate fish and chips which was kind of exciting since it was real British fish and chips. After eating we decided to go for a walk to the city center and boy did it end up being a long walk! Afterwards we went back to my Uncle's and watched a couple movies so nothing crazy. I went to sleep about 10:30pm.
Then comes the morning of the 19th. I woke about 8:30am so score! No jet lag! Or at least I think so we'll have to see how I sleep tonight. Our plan for today was to drive my cousin and her friend to VFest. The distance would mean that normally it would take about 2.5 hours to drive there but it took us about 4 to 5 hours to get there.
Part of the reason it took us so long to get there was because a car caught fire on the road and they stopped all traffic on both sides of the road for at least half and hour though I'm not sure the total time we were stopped. But me and my Uncle did decide to try and walk up to the front to see how much longer it would take before we would move again.
This is a picture of all the random people who got out of their cars to try and look farther down the road by going onto the oncoming traffic lanes. Obviously I was one of them based on the angle of the picture.
Here's a picture of the opposite side of the road all stopped and waiting for the all clear to start driving again. I believe they were stopped because of the smoke. Plus the car that was on fire was in the center lane...
When the cars were given the all clear to start driving again they were lead by a police car or something and forced to go slow since there were still a lot of people walking around on the wrong side of the road and they had to make sure that they were given enough time to get back to their cars.
After dropping my cousin and her friend off we decided to find a new way back since the freeway had stop and go traffic on the way back. The route we took back lead us by Chester where we decided to stop to eat and walk around some.
This is a picture of the city center with it's cool old buildings and such.
We ate at a McDonalds, nothing special but food is food. It was raining when we first got there but stopped during our walk so we decided to put the umbrella back in the car then go drink a pint along the canal. I asked my Uncle for a suggestion of a real British beer but he said he didn't really know which was good but thought that tap was the way to go. Luckily a random guy at the bar had a suggestion for us so we both got the Bombadier. Or at least I think it was called that, if not it was something really close to that.
Nothing special after that. We drove home, watched a movie, I updated my blog and answered emails and that's the end of that. Stay tuned for England Part 2 or whatever awesome name I can come up with for it...
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