> > Some quite nice photos here, with sound, from this year's Horse Fair: > > < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8728149.stm > > > > > This is one of the things I've been wanting to photograph for years > and > > never get round to (bit like GFM). It's one of the stock events for > UK > > photographers, like Burning Man in the USA. > > I got a small glimpse of this recently. Sadly, at the time it did > nothing > for my sense of humour going up the A1 to see signs saying 'Appleby > Horse > Fair, Long Delays A66, and being committed to going across it to get to > the > top end of the M6. Fortunately, we went up as they were just preparing > for > their arrival, and we only saw a couple of horses - one of which was a > tiny > horse drawn caravan with a trucks rear marker board and painted in > hi-visibility paint! I would have liked to have been there to not only > photo > the fair, but for so many points on what is a most picturesque area.
I did in fact plan to go there a few years ago. The trip there would involve using the Settle-Carlisle railway which is another thing I haven't got around to yet. I phoned around hotels and B&Bs a few weeks beforehand, but was told you have to book at least a year ahead. I thought about camping there instead, but call me prejudiced - I didn't want to leave stuff lying around all day protected only by a thin nylon sheet. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
