Kirkby Stephen – 24 July 2024

Today we drove to Kirkby Stephen a market town in Cumbria.

We’d been here a few times before and both of us liked it. Our initial thoughts today were that it had changed a fair bit since we were last there. Nothing major, but a few of the shops we remembered weren’t there any more and a few of the pubs and hotels looked as if they had changed hands. Well, you have to remember that nothing lasts forever.

We had coffee and a bite to eat in the town, then went for a walk round the cricket pitch and up on to the mound behind it where you get a great view all round.

A bit of shopping in the Coop and then back to the house.

PoD was a straggly line of wild geranium flowers back at the house.

 

Memories:

  • Rosa persica. Yellow rose with dark red centre
  • Climbing the hill behind the cricket pitch
  • Sighting the Nine Standards from the top of the hill
  • Neil’s Daal with Flatbread
  • Roadworks on the Main Street causing confusion

Tomorrow is unplanned as yet. Maybe back to Kendal weather permitting.