A new kind of normal (Explore 20/05/21 #63)
River Nidd, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
We should have been out in our new car this week, but the delivery has slipped… apparently, it’s not been built yet. So nice of them to inform us 24 hours before the due date, but as they say - first world problems! Nevertheless, having booked the week off in anticipation we still decided to stick to our plans and venture out. Knaresborough only came to light after watching Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out in Yorkshire on TV a few weeks back. It’s looked very picturesque from the locations she visited and besides it’s got a great viaduct so what’s not to like.
Paul… before you ask, there will be a full account on the viaduct’s construction and history in a later posting.
Unlike Harrogate and York, which I suspected would be teeming with visitors after the relaxing of lockdown and more importantly… the pubs are now properly open so we opted for Knaresborough instead. Even after a coffee and a teacake (you wouldn’t believe the debate this caused in our WhatsApp group on the differences between a bun, barm, roll and said teacake… and not for the first time either!) the town was still pretty quiet.
Even these rowing boats wait patiently for their first customers of the day. Admittedly, it was out of bounds when I took this image but the owner let me through providing, I didn’t sue if I fell in on the wet slippy quayside.
By afternoon, the place was beginning to show the shoots of recovery with people wandering along the river side and cafes and pubs serving food inside and out. Even a few rowing boats on the river. It’s good to see a return to some kind of normal at last.
A new kind of normal (Explore 20/05/21 #63)
River Nidd, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
We should have been out in our new car this week, but the delivery has slipped… apparently, it’s not been built yet. So nice of them to inform us 24 hours before the due date, but as they say - first world problems! Nevertheless, having booked the week off in anticipation we still decided to stick to our plans and venture out. Knaresborough only came to light after watching Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out in Yorkshire on TV a few weeks back. It’s looked very picturesque from the locations she visited and besides it’s got a great viaduct so what’s not to like.
Paul… before you ask, there will be a full account on the viaduct’s construction and history in a later posting.
Unlike Harrogate and York, which I suspected would be teeming with visitors after the relaxing of lockdown and more importantly… the pubs are now properly open so we opted for Knaresborough instead. Even after a coffee and a teacake (you wouldn’t believe the debate this caused in our WhatsApp group on the differences between a bun, barm, roll and said teacake… and not for the first time either!) the town was still pretty quiet.
Even these rowing boats wait patiently for their first customers of the day. Admittedly, it was out of bounds when I took this image but the owner let me through providing, I didn’t sue if I fell in on the wet slippy quayside.
By afternoon, the place was beginning to show the shoots of recovery with people wandering along the river side and cafes and pubs serving food inside and out. Even a few rowing boats on the river. It’s good to see a return to some kind of normal at last.