Just booked our Katy Trail tour

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We walked the Dales Way - 84 miles from Ilkley to Bowness on Windemere. We had a super time on the walk - it was so beautiful! It was a long time ago though.... 1997.. so I don't remember exactly who we used or if they are still around. The B&B's were great. All of the hosts were really nice. The people who owned the one from the longest day were walkers themselves. She knew all the nice little touches - like when we came back from dinner she'd dried out our boots and washed and dried our socks! England isn't exactly known for its food, but we actually had some really great food there too. One B&B was not near a town so the proprietors fed us dinner too - really excellent potato leek soup. The breakfasts were huge - we never ate lunch. One place that was a real farm had sausages so good and so fresh you'd swear they'd been made just that morning - and I don't even usually like pork!



After that we did some exploring on our own. We spent a few days in a little town called Shrewsbury - there's a lot of old Tudor and Elizabethan (and older I think!) architecture left so there's been a lot of film making in the town. It's right on the border with Wales, but I don't think we ever ventured across. Then we went down to Dartmoor. That was the only place we had to rent a car, it was quite remote and in September, when we were there a lot of the tourist oriented things - like the buses were shut down. We did get to go to Hound Tor - the place that inspired Conan Doyle to write The Hound of the Baskervilles - so cool!