A Touch of Heartbeat Magic!!

We've arrived in the North Yorkshire Moors for a bit of a break ... journey up was pretty good as we detoured a serious accident at East Ilsley by taking the country route. Traffic was queuing back up to the M4 so we would have been stuck for ages had we joined it.

We arrived at Nab End Farm in the middle of nowhere near Glaisdale about 5pm. It's a cottage on a farm Jon's ancestors farmed way back in 1841! It's very remote, very quiet, down very narrow lanes with steep inclines/descents to negotiate!

Had a leisurely day today. Went to Goathland ... where Heartbeat is filmed and the station there was also used as the Station for Hogwarts in the first Harry Potter film. Saw the steam trains arrive and Callum enjoyed the comings and goings although wasn't to keen on the noise as they started to pull away. Trains were very busy as there was a special event on, but hopefully we'll get to take him on a steam train later in the week.

Afterwards, we headed into Whitby to walk along the Cleveland Way to Saltwick Bay. A book in the cottage had a photo of a stunning wreck on the beach however the book was published back in the 1990's and most of the wreck has since disappeared. Lovely walk though ... and the views of Whitby Abbey were stunning.

Had tea in the Arncliffe Arms (the only pub in Glaisdale) ... Callum was brilliantly behaved as we had to wait 45 minutes before the kitchen started cooking. It's amazing how you can keep a two year old amused with a book and two toy cars - more luck than anything else me thinks!! Food was really good though and worth the wait. Jon had scampi - really light with the best variation on tartare sauce we'd tasted - had bits of seafood in it and Callum loved it more than ketchup!

Oh, Jon had a pint of Black Sheep Bitter and remembered the brewery was fairly close by at Masham. Guess I'll know where we'll be going later this week!