Having parents from the land of Geordies yet being born in Exeter and living in London, Oxford and Milton Keynes most of my life I would have thought I would have been a little less excited about a trip to the North. However in a recent work trip to Leeds that involved months of Madras training and elocution lessons I was quite surprised at the excitement I felt when I got to the train station, asked the man in the info booth how to get my hotel, and he answered with an awesome Yorkshire accent. I blame the altitude.