Oh, The Dales

What can I say about the Yorkshire Dales? It is everything you've ever heard about it. I felt I'd been dropped into scene from "All Creatures Great and Small" or any of those television series or films set in the English countryside. The green hills crisscrossed with stone wall fences gently roll along, with stone houses & barns (or ruins of) scattered liberally and stone bridges all adding to the charm.

As you can see we had the most glorious day for our drive up hill and down dale (sorry just had to throw that in there).

The highlight for the day was to find this river. For those who aren't family, the significance is that Ross and Brenda's mother, Ruth, was a Ure before she was married. We had set out in the morning with a general idea where the Ure River was but not exactly so when we rounded a bend and there was this sign it was a big surprise.

We're not sure if there is any family connection to this particular river and a short search of the adjacent church graveyard didn't reveal any Ure graves. Connection or not it was still a thrill and Ross spotted a 3lb trout from the bridge (very appropriate for this family) and Brenda dripped her hands in. We ended up crossing the river half a dozen times before the morning was finished as we made our way to York.

A change of scenery for the afternoon. We arrived at York early afternoon so had time to visit the Yorkshire Air Museum. There are planes of every size and age, most air force service planes and lots of info on their use in the various wars.

 

It has always been a dream of Ross' to see a Lancaster Bomber in the fresh, so to speak, and this is pretty close, it's a Hallifax.

I stepped back in time to my childhood, when Mum and I used to fly to Melbourne from Corryong in one of these. Of course ours was a passenger plane not a troupe transporter (this one was a little basic inside). Admittedly this activity was more a Ross thing than a me thing but I still found it really interesting.

It was with a little trepidation that we went to find our lodgings for the night, very cheap (£41 about $85 including breakfast) and mixed reviews. We were pleasantly surprised, one of our best yet and they did a very good evening meal for about £10 each. 

More of York tomorrow.

TOODLES