June 3rd (sunny)

June 3rd
Woke up early to another beautiful day to start out at 8:30 am for York via places like Telford, Wolverhamptom, Leeds and Manchester. Saw some of the famous soccer stadiums during our drive. The weather has been fabulous so far. The countryside is so very beautiful everywhere in England. We are totally amazed with the amount of arable land considering the population of the country and how small it is.
The couple from Manchester, Freida and David, told us to try and stop at Chester on our way north to York. We also spoke to them about the opportunity of one day doing a motor home exchange. At one point, we were one mile from the Welsh border. I was ignorant to the fact that Welsh is a language. As we expect York to be, Chester had a lot of the black and white tudor-style, very old buildings (1300’s). Extremely beautiful and a very romantic city. We bought groceries including good bread and cheese for our lunch in an exclusive hotel parking lot outside the city limits.
We drove a long way today (almost nine hours and 425 miles) and arrived at our site at 5 pm. What with the five-lane highways, driving on the opposite side and interpreting roundabouts, etc. via the computer program, we almost had a divorce in England. Somehow we made it to another of the “Club” sites. These are working out well; are very clean and are saving us approx. 5L/night which works out to $10.75 Cdn./night. We went to bed early as we expect two full days here.