General Travelogue - Week Two

Wednesday - Took a train to Bradford, but did not see Suz anywhere #grins# We did see the National Museum of Film, Photography, and Television, however, and despite the unwieldy name it's quite an awesome place. We were mainly there to see the Ray Harryhausen exhibit before it moved on, and it was pretty amazing. They had resin castings of a lot of his most famous props (Talos the iron man, the Kraken, the Ymir) and the original models of one of the skeletons from the Seventh Voyage of Sindbad and Medusa from Clash of the Titans. There were also other fun things to see and do in the permanent collections, including taking in a 3-D shark movie at the IMAX, but the absolute best bit for me was getting my picture taken next to a Dalek- I'll get that one posted here at some point.

After the museum we went around the corner to check public skating times at the ice rink, but it was closed for the day, so, having apparently exhausted the things to do in Bradford, we headed back for York. I made the case for getting tickets for Scotland and just finding somewhere to stay when we got there, but seeing that we didn't have much in the way of snacks, jackets, spare clothes, or cash on us, I was reluctantly disuaded of the plan, at least for that day. We instead decided to return home and look up a destination and hotels on the 'net, and take off the next day or day after once we had something specific in mind.
After pouring over the atlas a bit we decided on Aberdeen, as it sounded nice in the guidebook, was on the coast, and was much further into Scotland than Edinburgh, which meant we'd get to see more of the countryside. A reasonable hotel was found and booked for Friday night and Saturday night, and Thursday was spent wandering about York in search of a backpack and some snacks (and making plans of what spiked railings to photograph for the Anti-Ninja Defense Page I'm planning...)