First Blue Door on Tour: Part 2- Sheffers (Sheffield)

Hi guys!

Our sophisticated air con system began to fail on us on the way north and they were pretty much broken by the time we reached Part 2 of our road trip at Charlo’s home in Sheffield. It was a hot and sweaty journey as we didn’t want to open the windows or we wouldn’t be able to hear the Worst Witch and the Harry Potter tape. We arrived in hilly Sheffield late afternoon/early evening, had pizza for tea, popped over to the local pub and watched Sweet Home Alabama (“Just because I talk slow, doesn’t mean I’m stupid”). Sleeping in the spare home I was confronted with a gigantic moth which I ended up killing with a big dictionary and a Furby, which I had to put outside my room where it continued nattering to itself for a little while.

“Bright and early” the next morning, we set off for our Charlo’s tour of Sheffield! Woop woop!   

1.       Kelham Island Museum.

An extremely interesting steel industrial museum (very Sheffieldy ) to potter around in. There’s a huge engine which makes the loudest noise but sadly it was not on that day due to maintenance.  Sorry guys for changing the days... awks... Loads of stainless steel knives, forks, saws and engines.

2.       Around the city centre

A quick drive and we were in the city! We met up with a friend, who was in town, only for a few moments then we headed to get lunch. We popped by the winter gardens to get some lovely ‘Fancie’ cupcakes and ate our lunch by some fountains with pretty much everyone else in Sheffield. Those cupcakes were big and filling, it was possibly the first time we all struggled to eat a single cupcake! Then Sarah decided to run through the fountains and thus ran into a small child. After lunch, we explored the city centre for a little while and Charlo showed us her favourite independent shops.

3.       Botanical gardens

We headed to the very pretty botanical gardens, with its own mini Eden Project going on,  as Charlo wanted to show us a bear pit. There is no more bears in this pit after a baby fell into it and got eaten, way back in the Victorian times. There was a statue of bear there, it wasn’t a statue of a bear eating a baby. We were tired and hot so we rested under a tree where curious squirrel came uncomfortably close. After googling “what happens if a squirrel bites you?” we decided it wouldn’t be a good idea to get bitten by a squirrel...

We headed back to Charlo’s house to hose down Charlo and Sarah who (reluctantly) scoffed down the last chocolate ‘fancie’ cupcake. And then, with Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (read by Stephen Fry) blaring out of our windows, we said goodbye to Sheffield and headed off to the final stage of the first blue door on tour near Bradford.    

Until next time,

Eve xox