Castle Howard

We’ve decided to be local tourists during these strange times and check out places we can then recommend (or not!) to guests. This week we visited Castle Howard, a stately home which is 15 miles south of us. We’ve been there many times before, from visiting the...

Pickering Wartime & 1940’s Weekend

Every October Pickering hosts a wartime weekend where people make an amazing effort dressing up in fantastic costumes.What makes this even better is that the steam railway get involved and there are different events at each station on the line.  A lot of thought...

Tour de Yorkshire

The Tour de France will hopefully showcase what a beautiful place Yorkshire is This is the peloton just before the centre of Ilkley. The crowds were really enthusiastic and there was just a fab atmosphere with the keen cyclists explaining the finer details of the race...

By Eck

IT’S OFFICIAL YORKSHIRE IS BRILLIANT! Yorkshire was named as the 3rd best region in the World by Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2014! We just knew that we had chosen wisely when we decided to set up our business here (the image above was taken 5...

Great Expectations

When we first started our search we quickly decided that properties in the National Parks were likely to cause too many problems and the planners would probably not allow us to set the property up in a way that would make it financially viable. Similarly we felt that...