We're back from our break and it was great - just what the doctor ordered but unfortunately, he wasn't paying.We stayed at The Wensleydale Heifer - a pub with rooms in the village of West Witton in Wensleydale (obviously). We were in the Four Poster room and it was quite nice ( a wee bit dark) but the highlight of staying here is definitely the food - especially the seafood.
Each night, there's three different menus to look at - A la carte, daily specials and the lobster specials. How can you go wrong?
It's quite unusual for us to be having dinner in the place that we're staying - we usually just go bed & breakfast then drive around (sometimes for hours) in the evening to find somewhere to eat. This is better because it means we can get parked up at 6 o'clock or so and then have a wee snifter in the bar before dinner. Much more relaxing.
Apart from the pub, we spent our time driving round wee villages and stopping off at craft shops and galleries. Tom-Tom, the sat-nav man took us off the beaten track a bit so some the highlights were:
- the villages of Stanhope, Grassington and of course, Middleham (we had a nose around Patrick Haslam's stableyard)
- Lunch in a pub while a wake was going on (surreal but true)
- Tennant's Auction Rooms - There was to be sale the next day so it was good fun looking around the hundreds of lots - some apparently junk, others not. This saleroom regularly features on Bargain Hunt and Flog it! and we even saw Rodney Tennant.
The whole trip was great (apart from the weather on the way home) and has been a welcome diversion from hospitals and chemotherapy.
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