PENSIONER Dorothy Hirst has travelled around the world - but her best view "is when coming back over the Pennines."

Dorothy, 80, started travelling in her late 50s and has been on 16 cruises, visited the Caribbean five times and also been to Africa, New Zealand, Canada, America, China, Egypt, Brazil, Iceland, Russia and Australia, among other places.

She has taken more than 7,000 slides over the years, but is tidying up her bungalow and wants to give them away to anyone who can make good use of them.

The former Bank End Primary School teacher started travelling following the death of her first husband Eddie Bennett over 20 years ago.

Her first trip was when she turned 60 and Dorothy, of Helena Close, Barnsley, booked to go to Egypt with a pal as a present to herself but decided it was too long to wait and went to China in between.

She said: "Eddie didn't care for travelling, dancing was his life and when he died I just decided it was time to go to the places I wanted to go to. Every time I went somewhere I wanted to go somewhere else.

"I wanted to see as much of the world as I could while I still could. You don't know what tomorrow will bring but I always loved coming home, it doesn't matter where I have been the best view is when you are coming back over the Pennines.

If anyone is interested in the slides Dorothy can be contacted on 287965.