Drunken Duck Inn, Barngates
Another revisit. This time to our old favourite, the Drunken Duck between Windermere and Coniston. Oh how we’ve missed you. After a typical glorious Yorkshire summer, over here in the […]
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Lockdown Meals #3
It’s late November and the latest lockdown draws to a close, being replaced by a ‘Tier’ system which sees almost all of England in Tiers 2 and 3, and a […]
Lockdown Meals #1
It’s been a long, long, lonely winter, as the Beatles might have said, before heralding the sun…and spring and, hopefully, an end to the [necessary?] measures that have restricted all […]
Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
Well we guess the Black Swan holds a number of records – Trip Advisor ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ and now No 4 in the same league table. Remarkable. BTW […]
Inver, Strathlachlan, Argyll
It’s been a funny old few months with this lockdown thingy (absolutely essential lockdown thingy…Ed) and normal restaurant appreciation has been postponed. Great invention by pubs, cafés and restaurants to […]
Riley’s Fish Shack, Tynemouth
Often promised but very nearly never realised. Our last attempt to visit this fish heaven saw The Shack closed for a new arrival. Our alternative choice wasn’t worth recording so […]
Bluebell, Kettlewell
If you look at sheep grazing in the Yorkshire Dales it’s sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the sheep and lumps of whitish limestone outcrops, both dotted haphazardly across […]
Mademoiselles, Whitby
The seaside towns along the Yorkshire coast divide, almost, neatly into two types. Staithes, Runswick Bay, Sandsend and Robin Hood’s Bay are fashionable, charming reminders of times gone by when […]
The Coverbridge Inn, Wensleydale
There’s a very old walking in club in West Yorkshire that seems to love walking in the depths of winter, in the Yorkshire Dales. Members are all of a certain […]
Craven Arms, Appletreewick, North Yorkshire
In our (hopefully) never ending series of [1] visits to pubs and [2] walks in Yorkshire, we set out to walk up Trollers Gill in Wharfedale. We’re meeting up with […]
