Jasper once again is safely stowed in the Cozy Pets Boutique Hotel in an A1 cell (that's what it says on it). And we're safely stowed in a Brooklands self-catering cottage in Bellerby. An easier drive up from Cambridge - Google Maps did take us on a scenic route to add artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing navigation. It may have saved us tens of minutes. We were impeded by work going on a bridge on the A1M road where the two lanes were reduced to one. We got supplies at Tescoes in Catterick Garrison and refueled.

We're just back from a visit to Aysgarth in North Yorkshire. A lovely area, pastoral and peaceful. Dry stone walls divided up the snow streaked hills. Sheep grazed the hills. Villages retained their age-old character. The Aysgarth falls could be heard from the well appointed Robin Hill holiday bungalow we were in, we walked from the bungalow and saw three sets of falls. A great area for walkers not that we count as such. We dined twice at the Aysgarth Falls Hotel which had a peculiar backwards clock, and books around the walls.

Virginia and I spent a long weekend in York, an old city with Roman / Anglo-Saxon / Viking and Norman pasts. York is haunted by old buildings and walls and ruins and history. Ghosts too to judge by the number of "Ghost Walks" on offer.