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| We were pretty organised for once and after cleaning the brushes from class we headed off on our short break--first stop was The Staindrop Hotel in Sheffield---we arrived at 7pm ---the hotel is styled in Arts and Crafts style---it was just beautiful--and one of the cleanest hotels we have ever stayed in.... |
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| the bathroom was great--everything sparkled--and the bath was very cosy---the shower doors/full mirror closed the full length of the bath... |
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| a bottle of bubbly was included in the deal we had---very nice it was too! After a truely lovely meal with 10% discount from the deal we had an early night and after a full english breakfast we headed north to Harrogate and The Kimmberly Hotel----another great deal ....we saved £450 on this 2 night break here!!!!! Luxurious dressing gowns and slippers were in our room-along with a real coffee,cafetiere, bottled water and some chocs--along with a Kimmberly teddy bear to take home! |
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| we arrived earlier than the stated check in time so we went down to the bar and had a lovely cool drink! As usual we were lucky with the weather and didn't need a coat or cardie the whole time we were away! |
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| bathroom was very modern-- |
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| the bath was one of the best Ive ever had the pleasure to soak in--it was deep and wide---and the luxury toiletries supplied were just beautiful! |
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| nice to have the option of 'real' coffee in the morning! And the local Harrogate water was lovely too! |
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| LOL-didnt order any wine from the hotel---in fact we only had the included breakfast there---the prices were rather expensive as you can see!!! |
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| the lift made us laugh every time we used it---mirrored on all sides--it was like being in Goks mirrored room on TV ! |
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| when we walked into town the first night we noticed the faces in this tree....we saw at least two---how many can you see? |
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| The Kimmberly Hotel |
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| a beautiful sky on the way to York.... |
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| The Tower in York.. |
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| York Minster---wow what a building----its hard to imagine how they managed to build such a beautiful building in those days--- |
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| beautiful...... |
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| the detail is just amazing.. |
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| from the Minster we went on to the York Museum--this Scottish wild cat reminded us of our Sparky! |
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| from the Museum we moved on to the Art Gallery....more to follow on that... |
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| -these beautiful flowers were just crying out to be photographed! |
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| I love this tree--she looks like she has long eyelashes-------- |
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| some friends on face book recommended that we had a look at The Eden camp if we had chance---we went out of our way on the way home to call there-and it was well worth the extra miles! |
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| very interesting place.. |
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| blimey its hard to imagine how they managed in those days on rations.. |
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| we were very disappointed to find that BED restaurant was closed when we were there.....its sounds great fun and was rated the top place to eat in Harrogate.....they do a great special deal with wine between 5pm and 7pm Tuesday eve -Saturday--so no good for us as we were leaving Tuesday morning!However we did find a lovely gem-----Jinnah Indian restaurant --it was just perfect---£9.95 each for an eat as much as you like buffet! They bought the pickles and poppadoms to the table--followed by the starters--beautiful onion bhaji, chicken tikka etc--then we went down and had the choice of around 12 different curries and rice---I'm not joking when I say it was to die for---we both tyred about 4 different ones.... |
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| on the way to Maldon we spotted this beautiful poppy field--but couldnt stop due to the road not being safe to stop on---as usual I had my camera at the ready so did get this quick snap-the red against the yellow of the rape was lovely! |
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| saw these a bit further on-where it was safe to stop! |
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