The Wars of the Roses: York to Lancaster
We left Harrogate and headed west down the valley to Skipton, shown here on the right, where we found a pleasant café for our afternoon coffee.
From Skipton we continued in the direction of Lancashire, running into a traffic jam for an hour or so before we emerged on the main motorway north, which took us, soon after dark, to Lancaster and our friends Russell and Pauline Rigby.
They welcomed us with great fanfare; Pauline had a beautiful dinner for us and we settled back into our long-standing friendship feeling really at home.
Russell was then the minister for the Methodist Churches in Lancaster.
Next morning, which was Pauline's birthday, we set out in their car for a visit to as much of the Lakes District as we could see in one day.
We soon reached the lakeside port of Bowness by morning tea time. Bowness is on the shores of Windermere near its narrowest point.
This is the café on the wharf, where we had a leisurely morning coffee, while being able to look across the water at the village of Bowness in the view below.
Unfortunately the clouds came down, and there was a little intermittent drizzle for the rest of the day.
We continued north to see Rydal and Wordsworth's Dove Cottage, and then Coniston Water.
We stopped for lunch of some beautiful scones at a café in that area, and then wandered back south and across Windermere by ferry and so home to Lancaster for a dinner of fish and chips, John Bull and peas.
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