Yorkshire - Malhamdale & Aysgarth Falls

Continuing our week in Yorkshire.  Monday dawned bright and clear so we decided to head over to Malham and take one of the published walks.  We chose to walk the Malham Cove, Dry Valley, Malham Tarn and Pikedaw - 8 miles

the walk marked out in blue

Mostly enjoyable walk after you have climbed the 412 steps out of Malham Cove.  I honestly thought I was having a heart attack at one point.  Only thing that kept me going was a group of young lads doing their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award, who seemed to be struggling too.  Though they were carrying all their camping kit but we jollied one another along.

Malham Cove

Dry Valley

Malham Tarn

Views from the top across Malhamdale, mainly downhill for the rest of the walk

The reward when we got back to Malham

There were a queue of volunteers to finish off the crumbs

Tuesday started out wet so we paid a visit to Hawes and the Wensleydale Creamery where we watched a demonstration of cheese making and then got to sample any number of cheeses that they make.  I'm not a great lover of Wensleydale cheese finding it a bit boring, but they do a really good aged one which I have just had a piece of for lunch.

After a stop for liquid refreshment we headed on to Aysgarth Falls - split into three levels there is a pleasant walk from the car park to each level.  I'm guessing these would look more spectacular in the spring when really full of water

We had now walked off the cheese samples, so decided on a cup of tea and a piece of cake before heading back to the cottage.  I really couldn't get the scale of Peter's flapjack, it was huge.  He did manage to eat most of it, I just helped out with a few of the nuts, along with the every present birds.  Btw who has cream on Lemon Drizzle cake?

 that was Monday and Tuesday done, hope you enjoyed it