[Leica] Was GB's asleep, now the smell of the north

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Yes Frank,
the smells are what do it,
The desolate moors around Blackshaw Head, peat on millstone grit, 
acidic,dark 
moody and earthy.
Swaledale, Wharfedale and Wensleydale, limestone country after the rain, a 
sweet, fresh,refreshing smell of bracken and sheep cropped grass, flower 
meadows 
and fast flowing limestone bedded becks.
The North York Moors, slightly bitter and musty with a dusty touch of 
heather,
a mushroomy humus smell of green in the woods and a tang of sea salt when 
the 
wind's coming in from the sea..
Whitby, a touch of ozone and fresh oak-smoked kippers,
drying seaweed and wet sand, the warm smell of pubs, good beer and food.

There's no defence either against the childhood memories which come back in 
a 
rush, the smell of the miniature railway in Saltburn - the trail of familiar 
scents on down the hill at Robin Hood's Bay, the smell of warmth, beer and 
bar 
food in the Laurel,fresh fish, crabs and lobsters next door, Fewsters' 
grocery 
and vegetables across the road, fresh bread and smoked ham from the bakers 
and 
butchers to the left of the bridge, Bill Brown's dusty and damply rotting 
shop, 
the slipway and the Bay Hotel and then the smell to top them all, the beach;
drying barnacles and bladder-wrack, diesel exhaust from Trillo's ice-cream 
landrover and the brewery lorry starting back up the 1-in-4, the horses, the 
beck.
Pictures are supposed to say more than a thousand words, in comparison the 
sense 
of smell is a whole library.
Douglas
Already looking forward to getting home again in July for a few weeks.

Frank Dernie wrote:
> Couln't agree more there Douglas.
> I still have my Yorkshire visa and am still warmly welcomed even when 
> arriving from the South. There is a sweet smell to the moors which I 
> miss greatly and I have to arrive with windows wide open, much to the 
> disgust of my family in winter.
> cheers
> Frank
> 
> On 9 Mar, 2005, at 21:24, Douglas Sharp wrote:
> 
>> York would now be the capital of England, a much nicer place than London
> 
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