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UK Road Trip, Part 2: The Peak District
If I were forced to use just one word to describe our entire UK road trip, it would be this:
Sheep.
That’s right. Sheep. Not castlesor curriesor funny place names or even cycling, though those things did factor heavily into our travels. But starting in the Peak District, it seemed to be all sheep, all the time.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start by saying that this portion of the trip was largely dedicated to cycling and hiking, so that’s what we did.
After saying goodbye to the husband’s family and departing Newark, we drove to the Peak District, the UK’s first national park. We made a quick stop in the town of Bakewell to gorge on Bakewell pudding and Bakewell tart, checking off two more items on our What to Eat Where list. I wasn’t surprised to find that the husband and…
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