Showing posts with label The Black Swan Masham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Black Swan Masham. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2013

Back Home..

We got back last night from a wonderful break at The Black Swan in Masham, North Yorkshire.The difference between this and our last break was unreal! The Black swan was beautiful-spotless clean-couldn't fault it! Our room was huge with oak floors with underfloor heating...the bed was a super king sized, and beautiful fixtures and fittings everywhere..Its one of the quietest places we have ever stayed too--didn't hear a thing from other rooms or outside all the time we were there.

Some beautiful scenery nearby.,.

Autumn is coming, the leaves are changing colour..

The scene from our bedroom window..

I love the stained glass window of the black swan..

An interesting collection of potties adorn the ceiling !

The breakfast was all locally sourced-the bacon was to die for...

We went for a tour of the local Black Sheep brewery in Masham--it was very interesting  to see what goes on..

the smell was lovely..



We were able to try 1/3 of 4 of their beers--we liked all of them except for the Ruddy Ram which tasted a bit too bitter for our taste!

We were planning on going into Harrogate for an Indian meal later so we decided to share a hot beef chiabatta and chips in the cafe there--very good it was too!

We visited this restaurant 2 years ago and loved it so was determined to fit in another meal on this visit to the area-- Jinnah is an all you can eat place...

they bring you pickles and poppadoms
then  a selection of starters are bought out on a sizzler...

then you can help yourself to a huge selection of rice and curries...must admit--I didn't think it was quite as good as it was 2 years ago--but its great value for money at just £10.95 each..we drove back to the pub as full as ticks!!!

We had this amazing sunset on our last evening...

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

A Welcome Break

After a hectic weekend doing Tenbury Applefest and Ludlow Book and Craft fair it was lovely to get away yesterday up to North Yorkshire for a 3 night break..We are staying at  The Black Swan in Masham. We have a lovely, huge room, superking sized bed, oak floors and underfloor heating.. The breakfast was just beautiful this morning, kept us going until late afternoon! The weather turned out bright and sunny as well though it sounds like we will be getting some rain tomorrow, not that it will bother us much! 
The autumn colours are all around us now..I just love these ferns we spotted on the way home from Harrogate and Rippon where we spent the day...some inspiratition is ever I saw it!

Beautiful scene...I will have many more photos before we leave that I can use as a base for paintings ...just need the time to do them!