Travel day today. We set off from Anna and Chris’s house , and stopped for an hour or so at the Holderness Hunt stables, where we saw the two packs of dogs that they keep, one lot of foxhounds, and one lot of beagles. Had an interesting chat to the houndsman there. Next we drove further north, to take in the Yorkshire Dales. It rained almost all the way across, and the dales were awash, puddles standing in the paddocks, and all the creeks full and rushing. The scenery was beautiful, old stone walls and stone barns, and steep hillsides up to flat hilltops. We stopped at a pub in the middle of nowhere for an afternoon shandy, and then pressed on. Down between Liverpool and Manchester, and then turned left to travel across the top of North Wales to our overnight stop in Llandudno.
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| Holderness Hunt stables |
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| Foxhounds |
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| Recording board from 1901 of the number of foxes caught - snouts kept as tallies |
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| Yorkshire Dales |
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| Stone walls in the Dales |
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| Rainstorm and pub in the Dales |
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