Blue Bell Inn Weaverthorpe

... As he fished each item out, he surrendered histories of his worldly possessions and arranged them on the sidewalk, exhibiting and professing the import of rope, tarp, a risqué magazine, airline eyeshades, his “idea registry,” and an antique army mess kit.
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... decided to go inside for a little bit more of a peek but me and Noma marvelled at it from a far. I think Noma was still recovering from the viking poo!! She had a funny smile on her face for at least 4 hours!! Anyway enough of the poo!!

After a short walk around the city centre, which is full of medieval architect, we jumped back into the car for the 2 hour journey back to the caravan!

Called the garage first thing. Told van should be ready early afternoon. So its off to Annie's for a good English breakfast. Thanks Mum & Dad - much appreciated.

If the vans ready on time our target is to make Dover and camp overnight. At the moment there is a ...

Well!

Day 1 - Up early - Start van just to make sure it fired! - Finished packing and loading 10:30 we're off!! Returned car to work, handed keys over. Ring ring.. come back..Oh no! disaster, bring jump leads.!! Call the AA the alternator is knackered - off to ...

... date of the 21st September as Paddy had a failing business to wrap up and Amanda had a lot of loose ends in her job to tie up. We also had a very important wedding to attend; Paddy's daughter Kylie, to her fiance Dave.
Amanda's Boss asked her to reconsider leaving so a deal was struck, with her working on line and the phone while away and returning for a period,each month to take care of business in the U.K.
The wedding went off without a hitch but ...

Ive been looking forward to our next trip to the north east coastal town of Whitby for some time now. It also happens that this year our trip falls on the same weekend as the Whitby Goth weekend.This trip has a little extra fun involved as it happends to be a Stag weekend and bike ride rolled into one.

We have decided we would travel by train to Scarborough from the Midlands, and from there we would race by bike over to ...

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We got to the top and what did I find at the top but a Mr Whippy van Yummy .

After a big day and out with our friends Leonard and Angela we got home and had the task of trying to close our suit case and get ready for the next part of our adventure traveling up to Scotland next day we were all up early and headed down to the Littleborough train station to catch the train although we could of stayed on with Leonard and ...

... giggle! its funny how thai ppl are your best friend until they realise you arnt guna do what they say then they practically tell u to f*%k off in thai...infact i swear thats what they do! after a long day off shopping with all our stuff on our backs we got in the taxi fell asleep for half an our and back to the airport another long wait and miraculusly we got a flight! i thought it was guna be a good 3days sat in that airport! (dissapointed tho we wer eyein up the baggage carts lined up ...

... the rooms. Still, the house is a hidden gem of York. It should be seen.

After our tour of Fairfax House, we stopped at Clifford's Tower. The tower is the last remnant of what was York's castle. The tower was the site of a really nasty bout of anti-Semitism in the 1100's. 150 Jews trapped in the tower by the town fathers chose to commit suicide rather than be executed for being Jewish. Now, the tower is used to remove money from the wallets of tourists. There's ...

... that we had to be out by 10 a.m. We asked the proprietor if we could have another hour before we had to check out. She agreed to our request. We headed off to the cathedral.

Only one word comes to mind when I think of Durham Cathedral: BIG! This structure appeared to be the biggest cathedral that I've seen. Now, I don't know that the actual measurements would confirm my impression. I just know that it looks very imposing.

It also is the most solid looking ...