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The weather was still rather inclement but I braved the elements and walked the final part of the Town Walls, which started quite close to the hotel.  This stretch finished in just the right place to take in the museum gardens before visiting York Minster.  After going round the minster it was time for lunch [...]

18 Comments CherryPie on Jun 15th 2010

The weather was looking decidedly dodgy so the weather forecast had to be studied closely in order to visit that stately home and garden that I had promised myself. From the list of possibilities the one with the least likelihood of rain was Burton Agnes Hall. The journey there was lovely and the [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 14th 2010

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 13th 2010

The plan was to visit Newby Hall and Gardens but by the time I had driven there it was a few minutes to early to go in so I drove on to Ripon because it was almost time for a mid morning cuppa.  I was tempted by a rather colourful display of cup cakes in [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 13th 2010

It proved rather difficult to get a good nights sleep before the long drive to York, because it was the night of many noises:

A house alarm going off continually which is against current regulations.

A car engine running just outside the window for quite some time.

Accompanying the car engine were two people having a [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Jun 12th 2010

One of the places I visited during my long weekend was Burton Agnes Hall.  The hall has a very fine garden which is one of the best I have visited. I will be posting on both the hall and the garden more fully in due course, but for now meet Agnes (the 2nd).
Whilst designing [...]

26 Comments CherryPie on Jun 11th 2010

I found this hotel via the internet and it appealed to me straight away because it had it’s own garden and a car park.  The hotel consists of collection of  six historic buildings some of which are grade II listed.  The website provides a bit of history on each of the buildings:

Walking through the grounds of [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 11th 2010

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