Ribs Travels to God's Own Country

As we said last time, we're working backwards, so you had our most recent caravan adventure first. Our trip before that wasn't too long ago though, so it's still fresh in our memories.

We indulged Yorkshire bear/reindeer, Yorkie and Randolph, with a visit to that fine county of Yorkshire. While some of us were being patriotic in this choice, others were being more practical. We chose Yorkshire's east coast as we couldn't set off from Norfolk until well after lunch on the Sunday of our departure, so we needed a destination we could reach in a long afternoon's driving. Yorkshire was also somewhere we positively wanted to go to.

While it wasn't supposed to be that far, it wasn't that close either, so we didn't arrive until nearly 8.30 p.m. This was partly because we encountered some rather steep hills as we got closer to journey's end.  It didn't make for easy towing, but it made us happy, as we love upland scenery.

On arrival we instantly fell in love with Wild Slack Farm. It has a simply fabulous location, just outside Lealholm, on the edge of the North York Moors.

And, the icing on the cake is that farmer Martin, and his wife Andrea, are lovely, helpful people and gave a warm welcome. We couldn't believe our luck in choosing such a wonderful spot, and as it was a lovely mild evening, we set to, and got the awning up, before a very late supper. Many paws made light work.

The next morning we took in our surroundings properly and started plan our week.

Being on the edge of the moors, we knew we'd want to explore them on foot, but we also wanted to get to the coast, as Whitby and Robin Hoods Bay were not far away. We were also in the heart of horse racing country,  a fact that keen racing bears, Patrick and Curly wouldn't allow us to overlook! 

Look to the back right of our next photo and you'll see the farm buildings on the right, with the site to the left of them, and you'll appreciate what a quiet and relaxing spot we had found.  

And to cap it all there was a good pub just a mile away, which we could easily walk to.

Find out how we spent our week, next time and who we met.

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx