We took many opportunities to walk and hike in the lovely Yorkshire countryside this year. Many of our walks are around Ripon and Harrogate. Fountains Abbey, Fewston and Swinsty reservoirs, Pateley Bridge, Fountains and Bolton Abbeys to name a few. The Yorkshire Coast is also a regular; Scarborough, Filey, Whitby. As well as Helmsley to Rievaulx Abbey and Sutton Bank with the finest view in all England (according the Alf White aka James Herriot)
Barrie’s birthday this year was spent on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway which took us to Haworth (Bronte Country) behind a gleaming red loco built in Crewe in 1949 – the year he was born further north in Kendal. (Barrie is neither gleaming or red.) The picture at the top of this post was taken while we enjoyed lunch at the Old Post Office in Haworth.
