We left Warrick & headed on a mix of motorways & back roads heading up to the Dales area in Yorkshire to meet up with our friends in Harrogate. Along the way we were blessed with beautiful weather. It was Saturday afternoon when we arrived at Anne & Mike's. We went into Harrogate for dinner & had a tour of town as we walked. On Sunday we had a fairly quiet day, we walked down to the Valley Park in Harrogate - where the Royal Bath's are situated. We enjoyed sometime with our scouting friends.
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| A narrow York old street. |
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| York Minster. |
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| Take a picture Deb... |
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| Teddy Bears ... Of course! |
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| Oliver Cromwell build this fort in York age's ago.... |
On Monday we headed to the old York township. We walked the back streets of York, went sightseeing in the old township area. York has a long history of a township dating back to before the Roman occupation which started in AD71 through to when the Vikings invaded at the demise of the Roman Empire into British history several centuries after that.
While in Harrogate we got to meet some other friends which we caught up with at the Wellington Hotel. Wellington was a great pub to have dinner in as Steve had remembered all the stories from his colleagues who have also enjoyed their time there.
On Tuesday we had a good look around Harrogate itself, then finished off some home duties.
After the last couple of episodes of watching 'The Dome' we thought it about time to get ourselves moving off the couch!! Around 11:00 we finally got going. Shortly after we got going, for what ever reason the speedo on the bike stopped working. Steve did a few things to fix it which made no difference at all. We decided to ride to the Wellington Hotel for lunch, whilst there Steve pulled the front wheel off the bike to have a better look at the problem. He found that the mechanic had not put the speedo drive mechanism in correctly. It was easily fixed & we were back on the road after an hour or so's break. We went riding through the Yorkshire Dales - which are those picturesque back roads with little stone fences close to the roads edge. With fields of sheep & cattle. It looked like a patchwork quilt of green, yellows & pinks, with all the wild flowers & different fields of crops. We finished up at Abbey Farm Camp Ground about 20 k's north of Liverpool. They even had a grass pitch. The pitch was quite cheap at 13 pound. Mind you we paid 2 pound for Wi Fi which didn't work. We had a great meal at the pub over the railway line - all home cooked.
Link to some
video of us riding in the Dales.
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| Lunch break outside the Wellington, also did some field service on the bike. |
This morning, Thursday 15th August we road to the city of Manchester to visit the Science & Industry Museum. The museum was huge, it was spread over 4 or 5 old factory buildings. We spent about 5 hours there wondering around. After that we rode to the Liverpool Docks area, which reminded us of the Southbank area in Melbourne & so did the prices. Deb visited the Beatles Story, which she found interesting. We left around 5:30 to take the Birkenhead Tunnel towards North Wales. The weather all day was looking dark & threatening, after an hour or so we decided to stop at a nice roadside hotel taking a room for tonight. A few minutes after the skies opened up. Tomorrow we are planning to head further into Wales, we plan to stay at Steve's parents friends place in the South of Wales.
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twin shaft prop. with 2 x 3 bladed props. Fitted to a converted Lancaster bomber with was used for maritime surveillance, post WWII.
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Old Bikes!
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Here is the
Google Earth .KML track we took.
Cheers,
Deb and Stephen.
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