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I've seen Fire and I've seen Rain
... rain. I suppose the weather here has been on the news in Australia as large parts of the UK have been flooded. We were lucky as it was never that bad. A few roads closed due to flood but the caravan site just got soggy.
Also forgot to mention in the last entry that on Saturday when we left the cottage I had to spray the car windows with de-icing fluid. Sings of things to come. Must get the car anti-freeze ...
Back to the van
OK, on Thursday we took a train ride from Whitby to Middlesbrough on the Esk Valley Railway. This is a main line service but is specially funded as a way of getting people to get to Whitby or Middlesbrough via the Moors. Great for me as driving through the moors is not the best way to see them so sitting on a train gave me a chance to see the scenery.
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2 years on
Rheged, also used as a reference to the 'old north', which I assume is the reason for its name, is situated just off junction 40 of the M6 in Cumbria. Advertised as a ‘all weather day out’ it is in my view unlikely to fill all of your day.
There is a regular bus service from Penrith which stops at the main entrance, and goes on to Keswick and Workington, and it is also just 5 minutes from Penrith’s main train ...
A great day out
... verge of closing up for good when by sheer chance Wallace, of Wallace and Grommet fame, said the immortal words 'not even a bit of Wensleydale" when the love of his life in the Close Shave episode said she didn't like cheese. W and G fans all over the UK then decided to try Wenslydale and the brand was saved. Good old Wallace, what a star. I was expecting a monument erected in his honour outside the creamery, but alas ...
Sunshine came softly.......
... near the Ure river and is in the valley, so it was originally called Urevale or Yorevale. After hundreds of years it finally passed into private hands as the monasteries were under attack by Henry VIII. At one stage it passed into the hands of some Marchioness, who thought it would sound better if she lived in a French sounding estate, so she changed the name to Jer (Yore) Vaulx (Vale). What a pretentious little Marchioness she ...
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