Archive for February, 2023

6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2023

On a recent walk I was pleased to see that the restoration of Hadley guillotine locks, after a long delay was now complete.

4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 23rd 2023

2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2023

We arrived for breakfast to find, unexpectedly, that it was in a different room with different waiters including the barman from previous evenings. In one corner of the room the Ice Sculptors were having breakfast together. One of them was rather rude, having a loud business conversation (that the whole room had to suffer) rather [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2023

We awoke to bright sunshine and had a window seat at breakfast that allowed us to enjoy the golden rays.
After breakfast Mr C headed off to visit a trade show, one of the main reasons for our stay in York. I walked into York thinking I would visit the ‘Chocolate Experience’ attraction when I got [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 18th 2023

We arrived at breakfast to find that it was ‘to order’ as starters and mains. Everything was there although perhaps not in quite the right order for me personally. I opted for the American stacked pancakes with berries. The breakfast room was a little chaotic, so rather than linger at the table we returned to [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 15th 2023

Our journey to York ran smoothly despite experiencing some erratic drivers along the various motorways. When it was time for lunch we stopped at Woodall services with its never endimg walkway to reach Waitrose on the opposite side of the road. In Waitrose we picked up sandwiches for our in-car picnic.
Comfortably replete we continued our [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2023

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