Day 9 - 4th January

Today it was checkout and then back to Duxford for a final look around. Deb waited in the car while I wandered around for one last look. Unfortunately the system they have is that you have to get a ticket first before you can get to the cafeteria or gift shop so as the entry price is £20 that seemed a bit much to just wait around.

So I had my last kicks there and took a few more photos. Duxford is an active airfield and so a number of light aircraft were doing circuits and a few warbirds were being wheeled out for a run.

Piper cub doing circuits

Chipmunk warming up on the tarmac

Warbirds being wheeled out

By 1pm we were back on the road and heading to Harrogate in Yorkshire. We are going to meet some work colleagues, one of whom, Fiona, we haven’t seen for many years and so the “Fat Badger” in Harrogate was booked for our dinner. Fiona lives in Knaresborough and that’s only 10 minutes away.

The drive up was pretty uneventful ( good, we like uneventful) but the route to Harrogate took us through some very quaint villages like Wetherby , all narrow streets and stone work buildings.

The Fat Badger is in the same building as the White Hart hotel so we decided to stay there a night. We duly checked and dumped our stuff into our serviceable but oh so tiny room. I went for a quick walk up “Cold Bath Road” where our hotel was situated but it was so cold again I decided to go back to the room and warm up before dinner. 

The Fat Badger / White Hart Hotel

 

Hotel Interior

 

Our teeny tiny room

Harrogate is a very quaint town and is a maze of tiny one way roads and alleys – I didn’t get to see too much as it was quite dark when we arrived (by 4pm it’s usually fully dark) so will look forward to exploring later.

 
7pm and we met our friends and had a lovely long dinner and chat and hit the hay by 10:30pm.