Trip to Yorkshire

This is my first post since the new blogger. I am am just plunging in fingers crossed. I am just back from a trip to stay in a "bubble" with my husband's cousin in Ilkley. I took a quilt to sew the binding down but didn't do any stitching at all, too tired after a lot of fresh air and too busy talking. I can just offer up the "patchwork" tiles above.

We enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the River Wharf. I took a picture from the bridge at Ilkley - various young lads were splashing about. We walked several miles along the river from Barden Bridge on the Duke of Devonshire's Bolton Abbey estate. One of the Duke's Cavendish ancestors must have done quite well out of the dissolution of the monasteries. And yes the Devonshire Duke's main estate, Chatsworth, is in Derbyshire, Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire and there's a castle in Ireland too.

Ilkley High Street with Sunday market selling specialist foods.

River at Ilkley seen from the bridge

Flower meadow at Harlow Carr RHS garden.

Dancing hares at Harlow Carr

On  the way to Grassington we stopped to take this picture of the lovely valley below.

On the way home we stopped at the American cemetery near Cambridge which commemorates nearly 9000 dead, some with graves and others with no known resting place with inscribed names. The chapel was so beautiful. It is so sad to think of those young lives cut short. The visitors' centre highlights many individual stories and research is being carried out to learn more about each individual as far as possible.

Each cross inscribed with a name

The chapel