The Malton

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... and he was quite impressed with what I had done and wasn't aware of the Wolds way. He dropped me at my friends factory in Malton and then my friend drove me back to Leeds. I heard later on that the St. Georges day celebration I had organised in Paris had ...

Went to Flamingo Land a few times as a kid in the summer hols, absolutely loved ...

Well, we are one foot in now and there's no turning back. Today we took the bikes to the airport.  Despite the forecast of rain, we had a nice sunny and warm ride there.  Our friend Bubba (no relation to Bubba J and without the silly ...

Ok so today my legs were beginning to hurt a lot. I've learnt a lot of techniques for managing this from my Brit Mil Fit sessions by stretching the muscles. Taking a bath also seems to help but after 4 days the cumulative effect was beginning to tell so ...

... saw the sign port for Rievaulx Abbey and I took a photo of the surrounding hills. Rievaulx reminded me of my university days as did Malton. I seem to remember Michelle Toal telling me it was a really nice place and it had a bacon factory there! I got my ...

... airport - 40kms north of Northallerton, and then drove SOUTH through Thirsk (where we stopped briefly to visit James Herriot) and on to Malton where the bike was. Three hours later (7pm) we had completed our 200+ km round trip to be back exactly where we ...

... he lived and when we knocked on the door John's partner Joanne answered. She directed us off to John's work address near Malton (about 8 miles away). Here we found him working on a huge New Holland tractor! Thornton-Le-Dale is a beautiful little town ...