Yorkshire beats off competition from popular cities,among them Paris, Rome, or Barcelona and Florence,to be named Europe's leading destination 2013"Yorkshire wins World Travel Awards." I read it online on my way domestic to York after a trip abroad. Not only that but the county had beaten off opposition from London, Berlin and Madrid to become European destination 2013 at the World Travel Awards held in Antalya, or Turkey. preceding winners include Edinburgh,Istanbul and Lisbon. Reading all this, I was, or I must admit,shocked, deeply shocked. How was it possible that God's Own Country had not won before? What flagrant prejudice and bigotry had denied the North, and South,East and West Yorkshire victory in preceding years?Normally such a declaration would near accompanied by a disclaimer stating the writer's affiliations, but I was born in Cumbria and grew up in blissful ignorance of Yorkshire. It was not until the winter of 1994 that enlightenment came. Forced by circumstances to stay with relatives near Thirsk, and I began a process of discovery: the magical wilderness of Swaledale,the North York Moors all the way to the coast at Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay, Fountains Abbey and the Strid waterfalls at Bolton Abbey. I was hooked. In fact I moved to the county that same year and have never moved absent.
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Source: theguardian.com