Brampton Live Festival 2010 was sadly cancelled so as we had arranged time off we decided to do something else instead. 3 days and 2 nights in the Yorkshire Dales.
Day 1. A66 to Brough, then Kirkby Stephen and Nateby and over the hills to Keld and then over Buttertubs to Hawes and a stop at a tea room.
Hawes to Aysgarth then turned right through Buckden etc and to Kilnsey and to Pately Bridge. WHAT a lovely drive. Saw all kinds of weather and lots of bird life.
On day two we watched the rain come down and Hector promised it would stop in time for our trip to Fountains Abbey. And it did! We had downloaded Mp3 guide comentary so we able to listen on it on our Shuffles as we walked around. We met some really nice people at a picnic table and talked about the National Trust and our gardens and ice cream.
On the way back to the B&B we had a walk around the fabulous adult playground of Brimham Rocks. Fantastic fun and lovely bright and breezy weather. Hector loved it – ever the boy!
Dinner was at a quirky tiny restaurant of my choice and I think I made a mistake. The food was good but the service haphazard and odd AND they had run out of beer.
Waking up to a wet day to go home we stopped just for an hour to visit Stump Cross Caves. Vertigo made it heart-hammeringly scary for me to descend the steep, dark, long, stone, wet and dank steps into the cave system. Worth it though as it was so interesting.

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