Monday 25th September 2023

We were up fairly early, didn’t sleep well, it was very stormy overnight.

By morning it was windy but dry, the site was clearning out, so we wandered into Hawes, it’s a nice walk from the site, and so we popped up to the creamery and bought our favourite cheeses from the tasting session.

Popped into the sweet shop, and got some goodies, and finally into Crocketts the bakery (and butcher).

We got Eccles cakes and Yorkshire cheesecakes, which are little curd cakes, both were really tasty, the Eccles cake was nicely chewy.

Also snagged a couple of “Fat Rascals” which are a Yorkshire delicacy.

We had a wee pot of coffee and some relaxing time and we were ready to finish packing up and head onto the next site.

We headed to “Wharfedale Caravan and Motorhome Club Campsite” via Skipton, it’s a nice site, wee bit isolated, but handy for a very well stocked Spar.

En route, we popped into Keelham food hall, it sounded great, but it wasn’t great for parking larger vehicles, Gayle had to stay in the van.

Some great food, could have gone wild buying bits, but picked up a chicken stir fry and chicken “balmorals” with black pudding instead of haggis and some potatoes and a frangipane tart and Bakewell tart.

Arrived on site around 1:30pm, pitched up, bit of a slope which couldn’t be corrected by our levelling blocks, it didn’t pass our “door test” but it was not too bad.

It rained for a short while just after we got there, and we waited it out, before heading out the back of the site into Grassington.

We’ve never seen the remake of All Creatures Great and Small that is filmed here, but it’s a lovely wee town, maybe a bit hectic with cars, and it doesn’t bear thinking about in the height of summer.

We had a pint in the Devonshire arms, and the food looked good, as it did in all of the wee pubs and restaurants in town, but we headed back via the very well stocked Spar, and had the chicken stir fry for dinner with a van-pantry Veetee rice.

Oh, on the road between Grassington and the Spar, there was a wee honesty box for “Alice’s Flapjacks”, £1.50 each and worth every penny.