Do NOT avoid Yorkshire

According to the Travel section of The Guardian Yorkshire is one of the Five Places To Avoid during the summer:

4. Yorkshire
Lovely scenery, but there are people in the West Riding who have lived there since 1106 but are still not accepted as true Yorkshiremen because rumour has it that their mother bought clogs from a pedlar who had a cousin in Prestbury, thereby blighting the bloodline forever. They make Londoners look like Hawaiian greeter girls. Plus you can't stray within 50 miles of Haworth sodding Parsonage without being assailed on all sides by Bronte bilge. The Branwell Tea Shoppe. The Helen Burns Sunbed Centre. Mr Rochester Opticians. Grace Moon Loft Conversions. What a load of Wuthering Shite.

If you are willing to sacrifice the 'lovely scenery' (and the kindness of its people, despite what they might say) on those grounds solely, then simply you don't deserve to go there. Hmph!

It is our theory that this somewhat rude reporter must bear a grudge to someone in Yorkshire - and that she was too scared to read the parts of Jane Eyre where Grace Poole - not Grace Moon! - featured.

Don't miss Yorkshire!!

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