TWO hours flight from the north of England you can land in the north of Portugal, and a small region that has four UNESCO sites that are as culturally rich as ours. Tradition and history from the ancient monasteries, architecture and art vie for attention with amazing gastronomy, wines and outdoors adventure among its mountain peaks and wild Atlantic beaches.
By day Hannah Spring is a lecturer at York St John University in health information science. But catch her outside work and if you are lucky, she’ll be shimmying up a pole and performing an aerial dance as the exotic Scarlet Butterfly or perhaps the evil green Absinthe Faery. It’s a unique form of acrobatic, theatrical, cirque-style pole dance which sees her perform in elaborate faery, fantasy and burlesque-inspired costumes.
CHEERING crowds lined the streets of Ilkley for the second time in two days today for the annual carnival, the day after the Tour de Yorkshire cycled through.
