Back in time - yorkshire style

 Looking a little like something from an episode of Dr Who, we found ourselved in a 1940's weekend once we had finished at the crime writers convention.

We had been on the hunt for a wee craft shop, so this was much better.

Keep dancing!

Leyburn had come alive with about half of the public dressed in 1940's style, with cars, lorries, and stalls all keeping to the theme.

And then back to the caravan to try to set fire to the garlic bread...

Room for a few Moore at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Love these guys.

 And these guys! 

But only one of this pair...

Cabbage white or something else?

Tourism in Yorkshire seems to be a bit over-rated sometimes.  We failed to find the sunday market in one town (because it wasn't on - not because we couldn't find it) and this daytrip was to find a medieval village. 

Hmmm!

The village was a few wooden planks laid out in a grassy field in the shape of the outside of some buildings. Nothing higher than 10 cm

But on the way there we had been accosted by a rambler asking if we had seen a butterfly....

 No - but we saw some cows!

 

Rocking the day away - yorkshire style

After our time in Hull, and the billion free museums, our next stop was to more familiar territory - York.

Home of a great University, and one-time out-of-town furniture superstore.

We were pitching up in York for a week, at an "Adults only" caravan site. This is not what you might think it is. It just means that there are no children and noise.  No bikes, and flooded toilets. 

Not caravan club, so not pages of rules and regulations.  We were shown to our pitch. "I hope you can reverse" she said.

"Born to reverse" - that's me!

So from our new base we could go into York, or see the rest of the world.

 We saw the rest of the world!

We started with a trip to the forest to see some stones.  

Bonus of the day was getting free parking!  England is expensive.

So we went back on a second trip the following day - it was too warm for York.

The Anvil

 This one was national trust, so we had another cheap day out.  The stones are very dramatic.  We were on the edge of Wensleydale - but saw no sign of Gromit.

Art for art's sake

A day out hunting down some art saw us crossing the Pennines (probably) on the M62 in the pouring rain. We were heading for Salts Mill, which seems to be the home for some David Hockney exhibitions.  http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/

Great place for fish and chips - which I was needing. We hadn't eaten f&c since Whitby.    

There was plenty to see, and afterwards we had a walk around the planned village which Mr Salt built for his workers. He named the streets after his children. 

Dull Hull

The normal Candlish holiday in recent years has included a couple of visits to Hull - as a good way to leave and re-join the UK.

But traditions can be broken or amended, so this year we parked the Hobby in a nearby campsite (lovely - another small one) and spent a few days hitting the heights and sights.

Hull has 1000 museums and (deep joy) they are mainly free to enter.  So we went to find out all about William Wilberforce, East Yorkshire, The Art Gallery, the Philip Larkin exhibition at the library, and quite a few more things.

 

The phone boxes are completely the wrong colour, and some of the Exhibits in the transport museum are "exciting"

We also managed to get free tickets for a BBC recording of the Kitchen Cabinet, and in general, had a great few days.

We came back in October, where normal service was resumed - zooming through the city centre, straight to the ferry for Zeebrugge.

Wet whitby

What ever else we were going to do, we were going to have fish and chips in Whitby.   But first, a walk in the damp around the town, down to the harbour and round about everywhere.

A good read...

 Whitby is a rough place - full of crime and pirates.  This one tried to shoot me!

 

Bayness Farm

And so began the summer break - with a change for this year.  Brexit and the plummetting pound meant that we decided to stay closer to home.  So no trip to Hull for the ferry, but instead, 2 weeks in Yorkshire - North coast, Hull, York and Harrogate.

The first site was Bayness farm.  Access is along about a mile of single track road, so caravans need to take bravery pills.

Once at the site, the views are stunning.