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Bronte Country and Yorkshire

Lots of cool pictures from the last couple of days but not a lot of time to post, so here's a super quick update:
 The Bronte house in Haworth where Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte all grew up.


 The library where the girls probably wrote some of their famous novels.
 The Bronte moors covered in heather

 This is called Bronte falls, and is a place that the Bronte sisters came often on their walks through the moors.
 This was an art instillation along our hike that was called "Literary Landscape."
 Today, we are in Yorkshire Dales National Park.



This rocky outcropping is where they shot some of the scenes from Harry Potter 7, part 1.






 A very different landscape than those we've been in thus far.

this might just look like interesting bark at first, but those are actually a bunch of coins stuck into the wood over the years, and the tree has grown up around them. 
Lots of love!

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  1. Jen TJune 7, 2019 at 6:03 PM

    What beautiful landscapes! All so different. Love the heather on the Moors! How cool to be in the place of the birth of such great literature! Love and miss you!!

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