Saturday, October 11, 2014

Holiday in Yorkshire

Rob, Brock and I are just back from a week's holiday in York, staying in the village of Askham Bryan, five miles from the city. We stayed in Blacksmith's Cottage, which slept five and had a nice, big garden for Brock. The next door neighbour was very friendly and advised us on places to visit.

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Blacksmith's Cottage. Photo from owner's website.


There was a fantastic pub in the village, called The Nag's Head. We ate dinner there twice. The food was brilliant, and the landlady suggested some vegetarian and gluten free dishes they could cook for us. Brock was allowed into the bar area, which he enjoyed.

Here are some of the interesting places we visited:-


Brock loved this beach at Scarborough - lots of dogs!


 Pirate ship ride

 Brock at Brimham Rocks

  
Weird rock formations at Brimham Rocks - some look like grotesque faces or creatures

 The Shambles in York

(More suited to meat eaters, but they did have jacket potato with cheese! 
We ended up here on a day with torrential rain.)

We also walked part of the city walls

 Grassington - a very picturesque village

 A walk at Grassington

 The weir and river at Grassington

Our favourite places to eat were The Nag's Head at Askham Bryan (mentioned above), El Piano in York (a vegan, gluten free restaurant with a very interesting menu) and we also had a tasty curry with my brother, Philip, at Sonali Indian Restaurant in Tadcaster. 

Harrogate had a branch of Wagamama, where we enjoyed a delicious lunch with great service (the staff were very helpful in suggesting gluten free, vegetarian options), and we also had a great coffee at Harrogate in Hoxton North. There was a vegetarian restaurant that we had hoped to go to, called Goji, but it hadn't opened for the day when we got there - next time!

Many of the towns and villages had a good range of independent shops. We particularly enjoyed York, Harrogate, Ripon and Grassington for shopping.

2 comments:

Craftycreate said...

It looks lovely holiday tphotographs and the good places to eat.

Julia K Walton - Fire Horse Textiles said...

Yes, we really enjoyed it.

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