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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 21, 2017 15:00:20 GMT
On the way home I was thinking, as one does, about Selby (as I have to make the text for the next set of pictures coming up Saturday) and then I remembered Sabrina the Youth Hostel in which we slept in 1992. Was it a barge? So, looking on the Internet I find these:  1982  August 1969 |
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 21, 2017 15:03:31 GMT
The Sabrina, a 70ft former grain barge, has been launched on a new career as a youth hostel at a mooring near the Swing Bridge on the canal at Selby, North Yorkshire. It is said to be Britain's first floating youth hostel, and only three in the world - the others are in Japan and Sweden. Onboard are hoteliers (l-r) Wendy Tanner, 18, and Mary Hamer, 17.   |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 15:06:25 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 21, 2017 15:12:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 15:30:42 GMT
I don't even remember how we got there. I believe it was graded as a 'Simple' Youth Hostel, not Standard or Superior, ...... I have a memory that there was a basic category as well that was below simple, but I may be mistaken. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 21, 2017 16:35:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 16:46:54 GMT
I hate youth hostels. Nice boat though. The boarding (getting onto vessel as opposed to sleeping) arrangement looks pretty hair raising I wonder if they did an elfin safety risk assessment on that one  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 16:50:03 GMT
Sabrina W
Sabina H
Sisters?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 16:54:44 GMT
You have a handrail to walk to the top of the steps but then you're on your own... |
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 21, 2017 17:01:12 GMT
Heard today I'm not working this Saturday so I wonder if I should photograph my Youth Hostel card stamps and slap them up here?
Blaencaron and Tyncornel - yep! 1982. Same holiday as Selby/Sabrina.
Ewhurst Green - yep - that's my ghost story hostel (a true ghost story) - I was in my tent and.....
Windsor 1976 (Canterbury - Beachy Head - Holmbury St Mary - Windsor)
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 21, 2017 17:40:46 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Sept 21, 2017 17:52:07 GMT
I've never stayed in one but have camped outside a few.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 21, 2017 18:04:25 GMT
I suppose it shows how much the world has changed since the 1970s because I was about 14 at the time that card was issued and I used to hitch-hike to all of these places. I even once got a lift from the driver of a goods train from Rannoch station to Currour station (the highest altitude station in the UK) when I stayed at Loch Ossian youth hostel. I didn't think anything of getting a series of buses across London to the foot of the M1 and then just sticking my thumb out and seeing where I ended up.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 18:24:20 GMT
My christian name at birth was Ossian  never been to the Loch though. Sounds nice. I changed my name to andrew when I was 11 due to wankers at school using it as a bullying aid. It was a twatty name to be fair !! |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 21, 2017 18:34:16 GMT
It's very beautiful. www.syha.org.uk/where-to-stay/highlands/loch-ossian/Were you named Ossian because that's where the shag occurred that brought you into the world, a bit like Brooklyn Beckham? I've often thought I should have named my first-born "Back seat of a Ford Cortina". |
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never been to the Loch though. Sounds nice. 