Our regular route from Manchester to Duffield takes us over some beautiful scenery - the Peak District and Derby Dales. Today, on Christmas Day, the route was as beautiful as it possibly could be.
Below: Higher Hallsteads, near Dove Holes.
Clear blue sky, crisp snow, hardly any traffic. (All photos by Moni.)
The route runs through Stockport, Disley, Dove Holes, Buxton, Bakewell, Matlock, Matlock Bath and Belper.
The road was free of snow (which in any case was melting), and I did not feel unduly worried about driving on normal ('summer') tyres. On the dual carriageway stretch (
below) only one of the two lanes in each direction had been cleared.
Derbyshire is one of the cradles of industrialisation. Every now and then, one encounters some feat of Victorian engineering, still in use after a century and half.
Below: A former chapel,
des res for those with gothic tastes.
Clear blue sky, crisp snow, hardly any traffic. (All photos by Moni.)
The route runs through Stockport, Disley, Dove Holes, Buxton, Bakewell, Matlock, Matlock Bath and Belper.
The road was free of snow (which in any case was melting), and I did not feel unduly worried about driving on normal ('summer') tyres. On the dual carriageway stretch (below) only one of the two lanes in each direction had been cleared.
Derbyshire is one of the cradles of industrialisation. Every now and then, one encounters some feat of Victorian engineering, still in use after a century and half.
Below: A former chapel, des res for those with gothic tastes.
Envying your Peak district snowy landscape and loving the new "Grisly Adams" avatar!
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