The Yorkshire Dales, Wales and Snowdonia National Park. June 19-July 5.

I’ve gotten a little behind on updating the blog for a variety of reasons I won’t bore you with.

We stayed for a week in Ingleton, England which is on the border of Yorkshire Dales National Park. The weather for the week was quite wet with occasional breaks in the clouds. The Dales are rolling hills used almost entirely for sheep and cattle grazing and hiking. We drove many small, one and two lane roads through the dales that took us along small streams and rivers and lovely, small English villages.

Some of the highlights of our week in Ingleton were:

A short Falls Hike took us through a series of 6 waterfalls. The Ribblehead Viaduct- built in the early 1870’s, it was is a train bridge that runs through the Yorkshire Dales and has a graveyard and chapel built for the men who died building it.

A free music and beer festival (the best kind) held in Dent, England. A small, cute and difficult to get to village in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales. Our chance to cut loose a little with some Brits. Great fun singing along with ‘Let’s do the time warp again’ and Tom Jones songs.

We also visited a car museum and White Scar Cave on a couple of the many rainy days we encountered.

Our next 9 nights were spent in North Wales in the town of Tregarth. We were hosted by Maude at her AirBnB , a delightful woman who have us great advice. The weather, again, was cloudy and rainy and kept us from seeing some of the sights we wanted. Both Kaye and I agree that Wales would be a place to revisit. We took a train ride to the peak of Snowdonia only to be engulfed in a cloud. We couldn’t see 5 feet in front of us, it could have been Nebraska.

We spent most of our times in Snowdonia National Park. The park is a favorite for hikers and climbers. Sir Edmund Hillary used Mount Snowdon as his training ground for his 1953 climb of Everest. The area is also known for Castles – 17 of them built by Edward I, slate mining, the Isle of Anglesey and Zip World. Snowdonia is a beautiful park with much to see and do.

Kaye and I did the Zip line- 3 of them. An 800,600 and 400 yard zip line. We, of course, bought the video to prove we did it and to show at our funerals.

The trip to Anglesey Island and Holy Island Light House which is a bird watchers paradise.

We also managed to find the local pool and gym and got in an occasional workout.

After Wales we spent 5 more days in London before heading to Prague. I’ll add some of the London pictures and notes later.

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Photos from Yorkshire Dales National Park and Ingleton, UK.