Friday, August 23, 2013

The Intrepids are on the road again!

Hello All. Here we are back on the road again and limbering up for our French jaunt, by having a few days in the Pennines. At the moment we are parked up at a beautiful site called Woodclose Park, in the picturesque Lune Valley, a short walk from Devil's Bridge


 There are beautiful Alpacas grazing in the field next to Delfin. Here are a few young ones, about the size of Afghan hounds. Kirby Lonsdale is a quaint town, with narrow cobbled streets, flights of beautiful, but sometimes slippy steps down to the banks of the Lune and magnificent views to the distant Fells.
.Later in the day, the skies opened and there was a deluge ... oh how we yearn for the blue Moroccan skies. We have driven eastwards into Yorkshire and are spending a few hours in Harrogate.There is a bus stop right outside the gates of our campsite so I go from being driver to a being passenger, courtesy of the good old bus pass. We went for afternoon tea at the famous Betty's Tea Rooms, but the tourists were queuing around the block so we just took the photo instead From Harrogate we drove to York and did a Park and Ride into the city. Our bus stopped right in front of the impressive towers of the |Minster. We strolled through the Shambles, had lunch by the river and  Sue made friends with " Purple Man " 
As the afternoon wore on, we finally reached our destination, the long driveway of our pals
Bob and Mo, who had electric hook up at the ready and very large, strong G and Ts!!
The last leg of our mini break took us over the Humber Bridge, simply because we had never done it.