A walk around Danby We started our second day in the North York Moors (the last day in July) with another Making Tracks child-led walk. Our kids are smart and enthusiastic but they still need a lot of practice paying attention to where they are, looking out for signs, reading ahead in the instructions and generally remembering that they are supposed to be in charge! We are going on so many walks this year that it seems a good time to get them practising leading. This time we went to Danby in North Yorkshire and started our walk at the Moors National Park Centre. This is a fabulous visitor centre with carpark, shop, tearoom, playground and toilets (woo hoo!). A great place to start and finish your walk. On the day that we were there, there were lawn games and other activities going on, and it seemed like a lovely place to hang out (although we didn't have time that day - we had a date with cake in Lealholm in the afternoon). Our little walk took us past some cool wooden animal sculptures and the playground before heading out over lush green fields towards Danby Castle. It was one of those drizzly summer days, where it's warm but midly wet and you're never quite sure if your waterproofs should be on or off. Eve, having forgotten her waterproof, threw on the emergency poncho that she carries in her bag - the disposable type sold to tourists that looks like a massive bin bag with holes for your arms and head. I'm not entirely sure how effective it was but she seemed happy enough, even if it did look a bit impractical to me! Despite the kids (predictably) forgetting that they were leading and thus missing our turn off at a couple of points, we made it back to Danby safely, albeit a little later in the day than we had originally anticipated. We hurried straight off to Lealholm for a late lunch and to check out the North York Moors' claim to be Britain's Capital of Cake. The Capital of Cake
One of our favourite activities as a family is to check out local tearooms. We like tea, scones, puddings, cake...so we were quite excited to read about the Capital of Cake campaign run by the North York Moors Tourism Network. Basically, the idea is to eat lots and lots of cake! There are 50+ types on the Capital of Cake website, along with suggested places to eat them. (Note: Jay's not actually a fan of cake per se - he's more of a savoury person - but he's perpetually hungry and is on board with the concept of going anywhere that serves food.) So, we used the website to pick a tearoom that was broadly in the right location and that had good reviews on TripAdvisor. We chose the Shepherds Hall Tea Rooms & Craft Gallery and had a tasty jacket potato lunch followed by Hot Chocolate Fudge Cake (for Eve and me). I can't seem to access my photos of that day at the moment thanks to a dodgy internet connection (grrr!) so check out my tweet instead (see here). Unfortunately, we had to head straight off for Northumberland afterwards so no time to try the other 49 types of cake. Maybe next time! (One day we hope to do a pudding tour of the UK - where we visit the birthplace of puddings: Bakewell, Eccles, Cartmel (for sticky toffee pudding)... Mmm! We may have to cycle around to these places in order to burn off all the calories!
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Hi, Only just come across this report of your walk with my publication - Making Tracks in the North York Moors. HUGE thanks for choosing it and I am pleased you enjoyed the Danby walk. If you're ever in the Yorkshire Dales do try our Making Tracks for that area too. Regards, Mike
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23/5/2019 09:40:54 pm
Thanks for your message Mike. In fact, we did do one of the Yorkshire Dales walks too - to Malham Cove. 'Making Tracks' is such a great idea and we love it. Lin
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