Category Archives: pubs

Ryedale Revisited — and a good food find

Posted on March 16, 2010 by John

By fold­ing bike to Helms­ley.  Few spring flowers yet apart from snow­drops and cro­cuses, one patch of celandine, and few lambs too, though lots of fat ewes.  Catkins, but not yet the light green sheen on the trees which is … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Doncaster

Posted on March 15, 2010 by John

Con­sid­er­ing that the last place vis­ited by this log was Paris, Don­caster is up against strong com­pet­i­tion — and comes nowhere.  The Frenchg­ate centre in the even­ing is like vis­it­ing a world where all human life has evap­or­ated — and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Kirby Ravensworth

Posted on January 8, 2010 by John

The Shoulder of Mut­ton at Kirby Hill does a nice pint, has two coal fires, and a good menu.  Situ­ated on the edge of a small escarp­ment look­ing North over the Holme Val­ley, the vil­lage of Ravens­worth, and towards Tees­dale. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bay Horse, Blossom Street

Posted on September 23, 2009 by John

Under new man­age­ment and try­ing hard.  Inter­est­ing selec­tion of guest beers, mini beer and cider fest­ival, nicely spruced up rear yard.  Worth a visit.

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Youth Hostels — the pros and the cons

Posted on September 16, 2009 by John

It seemed we could have a com­fort­able, hotel style room with two single beds, triple glaz­ing and air con­di­tion­ing, but with no ensuite and a little way out of the city centre (Stock­holm), or ensuite facil­it­ies, and extremely cent­ral loc­a­tion, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Jacobean Dormouse

Posted on June 21, 2009 by John

The Port­land Street Ped­al­lers don’t get as far out of town as they used to.  Crayke or bust had become Huby or bust and is now The Jac­o­bean or bust.  Three of us made it by bike, through quite cool … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Licnoln Spelling

Posted on May 15, 2009 by John

We were intrigued by the leaf­let offer­ing “Voi­let Garden Ser­vices” on the back of a pub menu, com­plete with pic­ture of small purple flower, and were temp­ted by the offer of “Chicken and Leak Pie”. We thought the lat­ter would … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bluebells again

Posted on May 3, 2009 by John

By bus to Cram­beck and then the usual walk through Cstle Howard woods to see the blue­bells.  But also water avens, wild cherry, cuckoo flower, speed­well, prim­roses, viol­ets, dead nettle, red cam­pion, stitch­wort greater and lesser, celandine etc etc.  Spring … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Across the Wolds

Posted on April 19, 2009 by John

Ages since I’ve had a good bike ride — so off on the train to Seamer, head­ing back to Malton, tak­ing the bene­fit of a light NE breeze, Star­ted off quite cloudy and cool near the coast — to CAyton … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Portland Street Pedalling — or not

Posted on April 10, 2009 by John

First ride of the sea­son — due to call first at The Ebor in Bish­op­thorpe. I cycled out there early in order to eat, our kit­chen under­go­ing renov­a­tion, and enjoyed an excel­lent poached had­dock in cream sauce with prawns. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

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