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9 Peculiar Reasons Why I’m Having A Love Affair With Yorkshire

2018-09-03
By: Caren Launus-Gamble
On: 03/09/2018
In: Author: Caren Launus-Gamble, Entertainment, List Post, Love, Real-life stories, Yorkshire
With: 2 Comments

Have you ever come to a place where you thought, ‘Wow, I’ve come home’? You just felt that pull – Call it destiny or comfort. Well, when I came to Yorkshire for the first time in 1988 to visit a holiday romance from the previous summer, I certainly felt that pull – no pun intended. My love affair with ‘Gods Own County’ actually began a long time before 1988. I’m German, you see, and we Germans are very fond of the English humour. And, in 1979, some bright spark at the German television channel ARD had the grand idea to buy in one of theRead More →

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