Walking holiday

Cathie and I set off this morning, walking. We walked to Embsay, got the steam train to Bolton Abby. (Unfortunately, the workers had decided to 'decorate' the station for Halloween. Instead of beautiful fall decorations that would have been inviting they chose cheep plastic severed hands and heads dripping with blood to dangle from the roof. They kept all the lights off in the ticket room and draped it with bits of black material and stringy cotton web stuff and had a skeleton in the corner. The only effect this had was to reduce everyone to stumbling around blind! It really was quite disgusting and I will not go back. Hmm! Not the best advertisement for a small steam rail station!)
Walking through Bolton Abby and along the river that was splendidly 'decorated' for fall, we gradually got over the trauma of the cheap severed plastic heads!!! The colors and scenery were just beautiful.
We stopped at The Cavendish for morning coffee and teacakes. :9
When we arrived at Grassington we had an early dinner at the pub which was very tasty. We got talking to another couple sitting on the next table and found out about a bus that went from Grassington further up the dale. We decided to take it to where our road would split. Jumping off the bus there we had a bit of a walk along the road till we were back on tracks and the sun was getting very low.
We arrived in Arncliffe and found our B&B very easily. The couple we stayed with were very welcoming. There was one other family staying; a mom and her son and daughter. We all sat round the long wooden kitchen table and drank tea and chatted. The boy then enjoyed entertaining us with card tricks.
We then made our way to our room (they had got our booking a bit wrong so there was a mattress made up on the floor for one of us! But they were so friendly it did't bother us.) and discovered the little sitting room with a lit wood burning stove. Ahhh! I would have read but I was enjoying just sitting and warming my feet by the fire too much! :)