The May Bank Holiday was upon us, so we grabbed that opportunity and ran with it to the Yorkshire Dales - Home of James Herriot, the inspiration for Turner, Wordsworth and Kingsley, the filming location for many movies depicting rural England.
John loves the Yorkshire Dales - it's his favourite part of the UK. When he was 16, he went with a group of friends on a 10 day walking tour of the Dales - they did so much walking, that his brand new hiking boots literally disintegrated by the last day!
We chose a very comfortable B&B called Tudor House in the tiny hamlet of Bell Busk - a lovely name for a lovely location. The views from our bedroom were amazing!
The only drawback to the B&B was the proximity to the railway lines (as you can see from the pictures), so it's not a good place to stay if one is a light sleeper. However, John and I found it exciting; it was fun to watch the 9am train whizz by whilst we tucked into our breakfast, and it fit into the charm of the place. Tudor House used to be a Victorian train station on the Settle-Carlisle line, and the owner has kept many of its features intact - like the old waiting room and ticket office (now the guest living area and the dining room respectively).
When I think about English Countryside, I think of rolling green chessboard fields with drystone walls. I think of herds of sheep and cows, horses running in paddocks, rabbits hippity-hopping into their holes. I think of grizzled old men in wellie-boots trunging through mud, grunting contemptuously at strangers. The Yorkshire dales has all of these things.
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