Below: Sheryl at Chesterfield Train Station...My Grandparents (my Mum's side)
My Grandparents are in good health and bubbly as always. It's only a short 15 minute drive from Darlington train station back to the village, which is located right off the A1 Motorway. After a nice cup of tea (what else would we do first of all?) and a chit-chat they took us into Richmond - a township 10 minutes away. We had a little walk around the Richmond Castle and up and around the quaint little windy roads and houses.
Last night we went for dinner at a nearby pub 'The Farmers Arms'. The weather's nice up here. It's not as hot as it could be but the sun is shining and that's the main thing!
Today we went back into Richmond briefly before being taken into the area of Wensleydale and past the village of Swaledale (this is my country - we are in the Yorkshire Dales after all!). We stopped in Leyburn for lunch which was ham sandwiches and Yorkshire tea. When in Rome, do as the Romans do!
Below: 'Eastbrook' - my Grandparents' house in Brompton-on-Swale...and I'm too tall for Richmond!
Below: A Meat & Pie shop in my honour...Upstairs Serendipity' - a tea-room in Leyburn that made a cracking cuppa!
3 comments:
haha, love the doorway pic!
Hi Sheryl!!!
Hayley
Dale in The Dales will *never* stop being funny.
UK train fares are tricky these days. When I tried to look last year, the Virgin website wouldn't even let me see prices unless I registered with them, and of course there's squillions of different rail companies now.
Of course, catching a coach is always significantly cheaper than the train, but here's some train fare linkies:
here
and
here.
Oh, and a bus link here.
Claire
www.girl.net.nz
Greets to the webmaster of this wonderful site. Keep working. Thank you.
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