Quick trip into Harrogate and a quick dash around the Christmas Market (& Ferris wheel).

Apparently;
Harrogate originated as a spa with 88 springs before it grew out of two smaller settlements, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate!
Harrogate hosted the 27th Eurovision Song Contest. Germany won!
When Charles Dickens visited, he said ‘Harrogate is the queerest place with the strangest people in it, leading the oddest lives of dancing, newspaper reading and dining.’
When Agatha Christie went missing in 1926, it sparked a nationwide hunt to track her down.
She eventually turn up after 11 days in The Old Swan Hotel, suffering with amnesia.
In 2013, Harrogate beat the likes of Paris, Rome and Vienna to be named one of the World’s most romantic destinations in the world by secretescapes.co.uk
Betty’s Cafe Tearoom began in Harrogate in 1919. They started by selling Yorkshire’s famous ‘Fat Rascal’ scones, decorated with a cherry and almond face, before the business evolved into what it is today.
Harrogate has been voted the happiest place to live in Britain three times in a Rightmove survey.
One of the country’s last, fully working Turkish Bath remains in Harrogate, dating back to the 19th Century
Harrogate served as the finish line of the first stage of the Tour de France in July 2014. The first stage of the 2014 Tour de France saw cyclists travel from Leeds to Harrogate via the Yorkshire Dales.