When we finally got to York, on Sunday afternoon, we dropped our bags and checked in at the Fat Badger (more on that later – the room we got is one of the featured ones on the website). We found a coffee place with better wifi than the Fat Badger, and picked an Indian place … [Read more…]
And now we’ve been home more than two weeks it will be three weeks tomorrow it’s 3 weeks today. Which means I’m already behind on telling you what we’ve been doing since we’ve been back and it’s kind of a lot. But, back on the Dales Way, on Thursday the 8th, we were leaving Dent … [Read more…]
Like I said it was a little rainy on Monday morning when we set off from Grassington, stopping for cold tablets and a scone. It was mostly pretty easy walking, though we had a little difficulty with Mark’s watch triggering something on his phone that played music. He thought the music was coming from workers … [Read more…]
Our first day walking, Ilkley to Burnsall, was a sunny warm Saturday, that made up for the length of the day – roughly 13 miles. It was mostly easy walking, either by the river or across the sheep fields, and not too muddy. We both wore running shoes (trainers) instead of our hiking boots. When … [Read more…]
October 1 was our full day of London tourtist-ing. We started off walking to Borough Market for crème brûlée donuts, the same thing we did last time we were in the UK. This tine we weren’t going for a big lunch at River Cafe, so we also got a cinnamon roll and an almond croissant. … [Read more…]
I’m writing this at the George and Dragon in Dent, Sedbergh, UK. We are feeling pretty accomplished because we bailed from the muddy footpath and took the road, really a country lane, to our destination and arrived there before 3:00pm/15:00. Actually 2:55. Compared to yesterday, when we were slogging through the rain and bogs for … [Read more…]
We’re going walking in Yorkshire in a little over a week (when I started this, anyways. Now it’s less than a week). I’m trying to get past the worry-over-everything-that-needs-to-be-done-before-we-go phase, and start getting excited about the trip, but it’s hard. Meanwhile life goes on in cooking and bike riding and in general here in Madison. … [Read more…]
I just ate my first and probably only Diane’s Dad’s summer sandwich of the summer of 2026 – last year looks like it was July. Made on slices of my most recent loaf of honey whole wheat that still did not rise as high as I thought it should but the taste and texture are … [Read more…]
It was kind of a rained out weekend, so I think that’s making this humid, hot, and cloudy Monday morning a little depressing. Plus I just don’t feel quite right today. I have a funny spot on my upper lip that’s worrying me* and I’ve been trying to line up new house cleaners which is … [Read more…]
And now the song stuck in my head is Taylor Swift’s august. It’s Emma’s birthday tomorrow and mine has “slipped away into a moment in time”. And the rest of August is going, too. Our backyard got finished. Click the image or the link in the caption to watch the video. It starts with me … [Read more…]