Slouching Towards Blubberhouses – A (Right Grand) Tour de Yorkshireness
As seen and heard on the BBC and Sky News...
By Tony Hannan
Yorkshire ... God’s Own County ... The Broad Acres ... the Texas of England ... a home to some of the UK’s most captivating landscapes, coastlines, food, literature, history, music, tea, film, sport and beer, when Britain’s largest county and its residents get you in their grip, you are unlikely to escape soon.
Phenomenally successful venue for Le Grand Départ and only recently voted the Leading Tourist Destination in Europe - beating off the likes of Paris, Rome, London (ha!) and Vienna - the eyes of the world are on the land of the White Rose like never before.
Slouching Towards Blubberhouses is a timely, in-depth and very often comical look at a county that is by turns friendly, uncompromising, boastful, blunt and maddeningly self-aware. It digs beneath the eeh bah gum clichés of whippets, clogs, flat caps and moth-eaten wallets to explore what really makes Tykes tick. And it wonders whether coming from Yorkshire still means owt in the socially diverse 21st century.
So what are you waiting for? Enough with the chelpin’ and get on your bike. We’re off on a right grand Tour de Yorkshireness.
