Yorkshire Dales. Up the first mountain!

The trouble with mountains is that the top is never the top. You set your sights and pound away up the track only to find there’s another peak beyond that one. It wasn’t the top. Then there’s another and another. But the views are worth it. You earn the pleasure.

Yorkshire – The Ribble Valley Viaduct

There is something quite magical about the viaduct in different lights! A feat of engineering! A thing of beauty.

Yorkshire Dales – Photos

Rivers, woodland, flowers and rocks..

The Yorkshire Dales – Near Malham

We drove over to Ingleborough in order to check out some of the family background.

A lot of my family on my mother’s mother’s side come from round Ingleton. My grandmother left home at the age of fourteen after her mother died and her father remarried. The story is that she did not get on with her stepmother who was too religious and strict. She then got involved with a fairground boxer, ran away with him and got pregnant. Checking out family history has its fun side but it largely  meant heading round a lot of churches and graveyards.

We started off at the wonderful Malham tarn.