After having another wonderful full English breakfast at our guest house, we checked out and walked back to the wall around York and climbed it just for a bit, taking some pictures of it we didn't take the time to the day before.Then we drove down to the other side of the city to Clifford's Tower, took some pictures and headed out of York to the southwest to take a scenic tour of some castle ruins. We saw the site at which the Pontefract Castle near Castleford was built and the remains of Sandal Castle near Wakefield.
We tried to find Wentworth Castle Gardens but the directions were too poor so we just gave up and drove across the northern part of the Peak District. Doing that wasn't easy because the glare from the sun made it difficult to see sometimes, the road was just one lane each way most of the time, and we didn't want to drive as fast as everyone else (all the time). Right when we were about to come to the beginning of the motorway near Manchester, traffic came to a standstill, but luckily we were able to wing it, going north to the next on-ramp to the motorway and got on without delay. We drove back to the Manchester airport again, entered the parking garage to return our rental car, but quickly exited after I realized I needed to fill up the car with petrol.
After we returned the car we took a taxi to Barbara and Keith Farar's where we had a lovely dinner. I then gave the kids their baths, and found that I was exhausted, falling asleep next to Norah after reading her a bedtime story.
Here is a Google maps route of the route we took over the past 3 days from Manchester to York and back
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