Have you ever noticed what a great deal some high quality photographic books are in charity shops.
For 99p, the same price as a used Jilly Cooper paperback we found a copy of Wide Angle-greatest places, a National Geographic publication giving 500 pages of inspirational world wide pano photos.
Another great 99p purchase in the same vein was the Yorkshire Dales photo book.
As a walker/climber I have always thought I knew the Yorkshire Dales well.
BUT
This volume has made me think maybe I don't know the dales as well as I thought.
So over the last few weeks we have been having great fun 'Doing the Dales' trying to track down where the various photos were taken. Even after much plodding, flasks of coffee and cheese sandwich's we have still not been very succesfull with the elusive locations.
BUT
On the other hand we have found some amazing alternate landscapes of our own.