17 May 2012 CAMBRIDGE TO YORK Thursday

An easy two and a half hour drive with plenty green countryside along the way.  Conisbrough Castle was a stretch-the-legs stop, way to freezing for a lengthy visit so back we bundled into the car as fast as we could.

Look what we found in the hole in the wall - a 10 foot thick wall at that!

Our lunch stop was just a small bit further on at Brodsworth Hall and Gardens.  Originally we just wanted a stroll around the gardens, but in the end, decided to walk through the house as well.  From the outside it looks incredibly wealthy and, certainly, the main living areas are richly furnished with antique ornaments and trophies from horse racing, but at one stage when only a small branch of the Thuellson and Grant-Dalton families lived there, the unused rooms became weathered and unkempt.

The formal gardens appealed to Allan's sense of order, but, of course, I loved the more natural woodland gardens.

On we went to York, finding our cottage to be most satisfactory and close enough to walk to the shop for a few odds and ends for a delightful quiet dinner at home.