I'm finally getting round to adding our holiday photos to my blog - we'll see how far I get tonight. Only nearly 80 photos or so - will be splitting them into 3 posts, I think.
It was great to be back in Yorkshire - it's been 3 years since we were last on holiday. It was good to get away for a break from everyday life, and also spend time with good friends. We started out in Gunnerside (near Reeth) - in a very remote place. I'd found a bargain self catering house on ebay ....
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| Fergus
wasn't impressed with the cold & wind in our wild location - see photo below for further explanation. |
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| Gunnerside
- where we started out. If you book a holiday house and they warn you
that you are booking it knowing you might not get your car up the hill
and need to leave it in the village and walk 1/2 mile up to the house
... it's probably true! This is only about 1/3 of the walk up to the
house - as you can see, the village is way below. Or so it feels when
the wind is blowing in your face, and it's cold and damp. |
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it had been warm & sunny, it might not be too bad. But it was cold,
windy, and started to rain both days we had to walk up the hill. Thankfully on
Monday (having arrived on the Saturday) we found an alternative holiday
house in a civilised location in Masham (near Ripon). Best of all, it was available
the same day - so we packed up our stuff, and headed down the big hill
for the last time! |
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our way to the new holiday house on Monday afternoon, we stopped off in
Middleham and walked around the outside of Middleham Castle and also in
the village. |
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| Middleham Castle |
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| Middleham Castle |
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Walking beside Middleham Castle - the sun even came out briefly! :-) |
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Elijah by the castle wall |
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Looking at the castle |
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On
Tuesday we headed to York for the day. First stop, National Railway
Museum! We've been there lots of times (incl on our honeymoon! :-P ) but Elijah had never been (this was his first holiday). And since he's a major train lover, we had to take him! :-D |
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They never end up all having a sensible face at the same time! :-P
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Fergus looking at trains! |
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Peter and Elijah |
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The girls join them |
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Older boys |
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In a train! |
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Climbing on one |
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Wooden trains are good enough to eat! :-P |
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Dressing up fun |
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| More dressing up fun |
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Benjamin dressing up too |
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Benjamin and his tiny puppy! lol |
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Me and Deborah |
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After
the train museum, it was time to visit Jorvik Viking Centre! We had
never been there before, and it was well worth a visit! Fantastic place!
Best of all was the glass floor and being able to see the preserved
foundations of a real viking settlement! |
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So neat! |
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Elijah was wondering if he was going to crash through the glass! |
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Then we went on the ride through the re-created Viking York. It looked very real - well done! And awfully smelly too! lol |
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Jorvik |
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