Whashton Springs Farmhouse B & B
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I've seen Fire and I've seen Rain
For those of you who know the James Taylor song.
Fire. After my first unsuccessful attempt to get the gas heater working I finally cracked it on Monday. I think it was just the igniter that wasn't working as when I cleaned up the contacts it lit straight away. The fan heater is good but a bit noisy. We had one in the motor home last time, but this van would easily be twice the size in area and the little oil ...
Back to the van
... line in bright sunshine. Whitby is a lovely place. The port area is not very big and is full of old buildings and narrow lane ways. The 199 steps are not so bad as they are only little steps and the Abbey is most impressive, but as is usual for us it was closed. Never mind, you can still see most of it. The church next to the Abbey is, as we both agreed, the most unusual and ...
A great day out
... his new wife stayed there for their honeymoon in a pub called the Wheatsheaf where we had a beer.
From there we went to the Aysgarth Falls and then on to Hawes which seemed to be the centre of the walking part of the Dales with lots of clothes and hiking shops and an extraordinary number of pubs for such a small village. Hikers must get very thirsty.
Hawes is the birthplace of Wensleydale cheese. It was ...
Sunshine came softly.......
... We then went to a small village with a 13th century church and an old tower that was once the gatehouse of a large manor which is long gone. Had a beer in a pub there.
Finally to Ripon, where Jeans' grandmother was born. A lovely small town with a huge Cathedral. The town was full of bikers all dressed up as Santa or other characters. Must have been a charity run.
Went to a pub for lunch, which is a tale in itself. ...
O'er hills and dales
It is fitting that we are writing this blog post at the moment – whilst it is embarrassingly about 6 months late we are heading back from another lovely weekend in ‘the north’.
Anyway, back in…. um…. April we had a weekend in lovely Malham in the Yorkshire Dales with Alice and Gareth. Gareth was in his school camp element and made sure that we got the most out of our free breakfast at the ...
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