whitevanwoman
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Other than the weather being crap and Jen's misfortunes over the past 24 hours, I think everything is sorted ok. DTDog has posted tonight so has obviously managed to either get a mobile signal or more likely has been able to use the pub's wifi, and whilst there is little or no mobile signal in the valley bottoms, usually a walk or drive to higher ground will get you a signal.
Tomorrow's forecast looks like being dryer and calmer than today although there was an isolated little rain cloud on the weather map right over the Yorkshire Dales. Long term the forecast isn't brilliant - more rain on Friday and into the weekend but I think the worst of the windy weather is now passing and it's very mild.
It would be a shame not to come; although the weather isn't great, the area is spectacular, the viaduct is impressive and the train ride from Ribblehead either up to Carlisle or down to Skipton is well worth a day trip. Hawes is a pretty little town worth visiting with the Wensleydale Cheese Factory and nice shops and market, and there are about a dozen secondhand book shops in Sedbergh for those with a literary interest. There's a few wet weather activities I can recommend - Stump Cross Caverns, Ingleborough Cave, Ingleborough Climbing wall, a train ride on the Settle - Carlisle (which actually goes all the way down Leeds but is known locally as the Settle-Carlisle) as already mentioned or a day out at Lancaster or visit Eric Morecambe's statue at Morecambe. For the more active there is the challenge of the 3 peaks. (Can you tell I used to work in a local Tourist Info Centre?)
If the worst comes to the worst, you can always head up the road to Kirkby Lonsdale and throw yourself off Devil's Bridge... or stroll along admiring all the motorbikes which are usually parked up there on Bank Holidays.
I'm still definitely going to try to make it but it just depends on this nasty chesty bug , at the very least I intend to spend at least a couple of nights down there.
Tomorrow's forecast looks like being dryer and calmer than today although there was an isolated little rain cloud on the weather map right over the Yorkshire Dales. Long term the forecast isn't brilliant - more rain on Friday and into the weekend but I think the worst of the windy weather is now passing and it's very mild.
It would be a shame not to come; although the weather isn't great, the area is spectacular, the viaduct is impressive and the train ride from Ribblehead either up to Carlisle or down to Skipton is well worth a day trip. Hawes is a pretty little town worth visiting with the Wensleydale Cheese Factory and nice shops and market, and there are about a dozen secondhand book shops in Sedbergh for those with a literary interest. There's a few wet weather activities I can recommend - Stump Cross Caverns, Ingleborough Cave, Ingleborough Climbing wall, a train ride on the Settle - Carlisle (which actually goes all the way down Leeds but is known locally as the Settle-Carlisle) as already mentioned or a day out at Lancaster or visit Eric Morecambe's statue at Morecambe. For the more active there is the challenge of the 3 peaks. (Can you tell I used to work in a local Tourist Info Centre?)
If the worst comes to the worst, you can always head up the road to Kirkby Lonsdale and throw yourself off Devil's Bridge... or stroll along admiring all the motorbikes which are usually parked up there on Bank Holidays.
I'm still definitely going to try to make it but it just depends on this nasty chesty bug , at the very least I intend to spend at least a couple of nights down there.
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