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Browsing Posts published in July, 2012

Rock and Water – Day 6

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We were hoping originally to stop overnight on the way back but were unable to get accommodation on the Friday night so we had no choice but to do the journey in one day and decided on a break about halfway. We had breakfast, packed and set off, with Amanda driving, about 10 o'clock. Up [...]

Rock and Water – Day 5

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After breakfast we are walking, not driving, out of the village. Weather is cloudy but dry. I do like scrambled egg with smoked salmon for breakfast – yum, yum! We set off along one of the numerous footpaths around here heading north parallel with Scandal Beck (a beck in Yorkshire speak is a stream) intending [...]

Rock and Water – Day 4

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Amanda and I aren't talking to each other this morning! That's because we are each going to different places, me back to Great Asby Scar and Amanda to the small market town of Kirkby Stephen. Amanda is catching a heritage (rather old) bus into Kirkby Stephen and she actually took a photograph of the inside [...]

Rock and Water – Day 3

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Today was our first full day in the area and we set off eastwards into the Yorkshire Dales towards Keld and Muker along the B6270 road. Don't take the 'B' classification as an indication that it is a reasonably fast road because this road is only one car wide, bends left and right and goes [...]

Rock and Water – Day 2

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We started from Peterborough and went north on the A1 as far as Scotch Corner where we turned west onto the A66 as far as Brough. Here we turned south through Kirkby Stephen.The Google estimated time was wrong once again and after a straightforward journey of three hours and thirty minutes, instead of the forecast [...]

Rock and Water – Day 1

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After a relatively easy drive of one hour and 45 minutes, 15 minutes less than Google's estimate, we arrived in Peterborough. We had booked one night at a Premier Inn near the Ferry Meadows Country Park so we parked our car there and caught a bus into Peterborough City Centre. This is a photograph from [...]

Rock and Water

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We are going to get wet! Since May we have been patiently waiting for some reasonable weather and I suspect that we will still be waiting at Christmas. This is, apparently, the worst summer we've had since records began so we have given up waiting and are booked to go away this Sunday morning, 15th [...]