I was just wondering, what's the number one favourite place you've been to this year?
I have just come back from a chilly trip in my lovely van, travelling up the coast of lincolnshire and yorkshire. We made a little diversion to see the stupendous stone at Rudston and then followed the gypsey race along to Willy Howe.
That gypsey race business is just superb - it surely must be that all the sites around relate to it being there (well it's a disputable point I suppose). But I just loved the landscape and the clear chalk stream. I had a very quick turn around the howe in the biting wind, I liked it very much (but was surprised at how dented it was, I didn't realise). And then we tried to follow the stream to its beginning. I realise this may have looked like two people crawling along a road craning their necks at a ditch. But it didn't feel like that.
And then we drove up the hills and down into the strange dry chalk valleys hidden just to the north, and somewhere past Folkton (of the drums), and then popped out overlooking the swampiness to the north where Starr Carr is. I mean, what a fantastic landscape. If only it hadn't been so cold I would have pottered about for hours. Maybe another time.
