Tuesday, 18 July 2017

From Fountains Abbey Back to Ripon

I promise this the last post about our walk to Fountains Abbey (and back) last Thursday. As I said in a comment to the previous post, I find it hard to decide which pictures to include in a post, and so I simply use them all - but not wanting to make one post too long with too many pictures, I rather split them up into several posts.

 We had coffee/tea and a fruit scone each at the tearooms by the lake before walking back through the deer park, the hamlet of Studley Roger, across the fields and back to Ripon.
Jackdaw keeping us company while we were having our scones


Tea rooms where we'd just been






Another pheasant that did not really mind us being there








 Later in the evening, I went to see my mother-in-law who lives 10-15 minutes on foot from our cottage. That is when I took the pictures of the cathedral and the cemetery.
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  1. Blogoratti18 July 2017 at 15:43

    Your photos are beautiful, and what an adventure that must have been. Thanks for sharing and warm greetings to you!

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    1. Librarian18 July 2017 at 19:41

      Thank YOU for reading/looking at my posts and commenting, Blogoratti!

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  2. Jennifer18 July 2017 at 17:02

    Beautiful photos...they all look like scenes from a movie. Or a fairy tale landscape. I would love to explore that cemetery! I'll bet there are so many interesting old graves to see....

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    1. Librarian18 July 2017 at 19:42

      There are, and as is always the case in relatively small communities, you keep coming across the same surnames over and over again; some of the families are still around centuries later.

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  3. Come Away With Me18 July 2017 at 23:51

    I have really enjoyed your posts on this visit - thank you for sharing. It's lovely to see all these English views and they bring back lovely memories of our visit to England several years ago.

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    1. Librarian19 July 2017 at 09:26

      You are welcome - I am glad you enjoyed my posts so far! There's more to come, of course; this was only one day so far :-)
      Where in England did you visit?

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    2. Come Away With Me20 July 2017 at 06:07

      We spent a week with a blogging friend who lives in Romford, Essex, and then took a 2-week guided tour all around the country, including some time in Wales. Would love to visit again someday and see some of the places we missed. You are so lucky it's just a quick flight away for you. We live in Southern California.

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    3. Librarian20 July 2017 at 07:03

      You are right - we ARE lucky! Although the short flight (under 1 1/2 hours) is the shortest part of our trip... it takes us around 9 hours altogether to get from our hometown to Ripon.
      That trip must have been great but exhausting - two weeks for such a tour must mean you were in a different place every day/night!

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  4. Kay G.19 July 2017 at 02:45

    Wait, did you say you had "SCONES"? LUCKY!!
    I have fond memories of scones in England, I really liked the cheese scones the best, did you try them?
    You were only 10 minutes or so from your mother-in-law? That's wonderful!

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    1. Librarian19 July 2017 at 09:28

      If you go back to last year's Yorkshire Holiday posts, there is even a video my sister made of me eating a cheese scone on How Hill :-)
      The ones we had this time with our coffee/tea were sweet ones, with raisins. I really like scones, too.
      Yes, our cottage is only a 10-15 minute walk from Mary's, which is one reason why we find it the ideal location for us - everything is within easy walking distance.

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  5. Graham Edwards20 July 2017 at 18:11

    My ears always prick up when I hear the words 'tea rooms'.

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  6. Jenny Woolf24 July 2017 at 13:27

    That somehow looks like a very inviting tea room. I hope it has tables outside for when the day is sunny!

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    1. Librarian24 July 2017 at 14:55

      We were sitting outside; I took the picture of the jackdaw from our table!
      Thank you for stopping, Jenny; I did miss you and hope your absence from blogland had only to do with "real life" taking over, and that you and yours are all well.

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