Where in N Yorks are you mate ? I've got family in the Pickering and Scarborough area. Spent a lot of my childhood up on the N Yorks moors
Yeah, we did Logrono and Haro last year - was amazing. A mate of mine is opening a basque restaurant in York, so we're trying to squeeze in a recon mission that meets somewhere near wife approval threshold... so that could well be added to the schedule.
Live in Pickering mate! Been here about 30 years. Spend many an hour on the moors on the mountain bike.
Amazing. Lovely place Used to ride the N Yorks steam railway loads as a kid, it used to go up past the old fylingdales when they had the 'golf ball' listening stations. Have spent a lot of time in Hutton le Hole and the little villages up there. Must be amazing for MTB. I'll have to get up there again one day
Yeah it's a great place. Safe as houses for the kids to grow up round here and loads and loads of amazing biking to be had with moors and forestry. Very lucky to live here to be honest. Hutton is great - the pub isn't as good as it used to be (for grub and lock ins) but still a very picturesque village. Let me know if you're ever back and we can grab a pint.
I still have some very old cine film of me playing with my old Labrador in that low walled stream that runs through Hutton-le-hole and I spent hours as a kid with my older brother and cousins messing around up on those moors. If I make it back up that way some time, I'll bring my bike and give you a shout fella
What did you think of Haro? I was blown away, stunning place, great food, and the wine was another level for like **** all a large glass in those Bodegas. We stopped in a place called Navarrete last year, just outside Logrono. Was planning a couple of nights in Logrono but I couldn't book in advance, and I cba getting somewhere to find no room. Navarrete is on the pilgrim way, basically the same theme, excellent cheap food and wine! Still got a couple of boxes of cheap red and white Rioja in the shed.
It is mate, yes. Had a fair few upgrades over the years but we never go. Far too expensive and the tight **** gives no discount for locals.
Yeah, I went a couple of times as a kid. Was a decent day out. Used to go up to Scarborough with my grandparents for a week occasionally. Had this mad experience in Whitby when we went on a primary school trip. I bought my first ever proper single in Woolies, which was Nuclear Device (Wizard of Aus) by The Stranglers, and Don Estelle was in there playing tunes on what I think was a Bontempi organ, dressed like he was in It Ain't Half Hot Mum! Remember it like yesterday. Yet I can't remember someone I've just met's name.
Im at that stage in life where I’ll walk into a room and forget what it was I went in there for lol. Remember Falmingo land well. I’ve got family from Pickering, Seamer and Cayton near Scarborough and a little village called Sherburn nearby. What I remember most about those days were trips to Whitby for fish and chips and Robin Hoods bay. And spending time at my great aunt and uncles house in Sherburn not understanding a word of what they were saying in their thick North Yorkshire accents lol Those memories are etched into my mind like a carving on a stone.
By the miracle of social media, I have found a pic of Don Estelle singing in Woolworths! Swear down he was singing Whispering Grass too. But he didn't sway me, oh no. I was buying The Stanglers, not one of his little ditties, good as it was.
Did a scout summer camp in North Yorks too, place called Fylingthorpe near Robin Hood's Bay. We did a hike to Whitby from there, it was ****ing miles away. It really is a beautiful place, much as it pains me to give the Yorkies credit. It's no Lakes, but then the Lakes aren't in Lancs, that's Cumbria.
Flight took off 3 hours ago. Now back in Manchester after circling the Irish Sea forever. **** knows what’s happening now. Sat here like an impatient angry dickhead
