Sunday, August 08, 2004
Out of York
Other parts of the country still exist!
It's been approximately 2 months since I last left the immediate environs of York (except for a fleeting day-trip to Norwich, but that was work-related so it doesn't count). This seems quite odd considering I'd usually list travel in my top 3 interests, and I'm not the kind of person to sit around the house if it's sunny outside.
So today, in the interests of checking the rest of the world hadn't been packed away because I wasn't using it, I and some others went to Sutton Bank and Helmsley. It has been a rather excellent day today - very warm, very sunny, but hazy enough that the sun wasn't blinding or burning.
And a very good walk too. Not too strenuous, except the short steep climb that we couldn't believe a man with a baby in a pushchair had just come down! Very good views over parts of the North Yorkshire Moors, an excellent Ploughman's lunch at the visitors' centre (new cheese - Dovedale Blue - runny), and a Jack Russell with a croupier's visor on. Lint, can you oblige with a picture of that last one?
Then on to Helmsley. This is a very picturesque little village on which approximately two-thirds of the population of Yorkshire descends on sunny Sunday afternoons. There's an excellent delicatessen - apple and chilli relish, snails in champagne, pork and honey sasuages, Dovedale Blue (who says you need the internet for instant gratification?!) - a cheap bookshop, and sundry pieces of a castle.
It's been approximately 2 months since I last left the immediate environs of York (except for a fleeting day-trip to Norwich, but that was work-related so it doesn't count). This seems quite odd considering I'd usually list travel in my top 3 interests, and I'm not the kind of person to sit around the house if it's sunny outside.
So today, in the interests of checking the rest of the world hadn't been packed away because I wasn't using it, I and some others went to Sutton Bank and Helmsley. It has been a rather excellent day today - very warm, very sunny, but hazy enough that the sun wasn't blinding or burning.
And a very good walk too. Not too strenuous, except the short steep climb that we couldn't believe a man with a baby in a pushchair had just come down! Very good views over parts of the North Yorkshire Moors, an excellent Ploughman's lunch at the visitors' centre (new cheese - Dovedale Blue - runny), and a Jack Russell with a croupier's visor on. Lint, can you oblige with a picture of that last one?
Then on to Helmsley. This is a very picturesque little village on which approximately two-thirds of the population of Yorkshire descends on sunny Sunday afternoons. There's an excellent delicatessen - apple and chilli relish, snails in champagne, pork and honey sasuages, Dovedale Blue (who says you need the internet for instant gratification?!) - a cheap bookshop, and sundry pieces of a castle.
posted by Chip : 20:21
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