Camp Itinerary

[nopseud]

Hi, all!

As we're only a week away from Camp, Pen and I have been looking at things to do and we've come up with a proposed itinerary. If there's anything else you are desperate to do instead, leave a comment. We don't have a minibus this year, just cars, so it would be relatively easy to arrange trips to different places -- you just need to persuade one of the drivers!

Saturday: Sizergh, a National Trust property near Kendal. If we have time we could also drop in to Kendal and enjoy the famous mint cake.

Sunday: The traditional Camp Afternoon Tea is booked for 1:30pm at Falcon Manor in Settle, in handy walking distance of the house. We can also spend some time looking round Settle itself.

Monday: White Scar Cave, which is a long limestone cave with some lovely rock formations, which we thought would make for something different for a Camp trip.

Tuesday: In the morning Cliffe Castle, a museum in a Victorian mansion, with smallish but pretty gardens (and a tea room!). In the afternoon, Bolton Abbey, a ruined abbey next to the River Wharfe. There are nice, gentle walks along the river (with tea rooms!) and you can walk from the Abbey through the woods to see The Strid, which is Internet Famous for being 'the most dangerous stretch of water in the world'.

Wednesday: Parcevall Hall Gardens are very extensive gardens, and we might be able to arrange a group tour with one of the gardeners (I'm not sure what the minimum group size would be).

Thursday: A trip up the Settle-Carlisle train line. It's a famously pretty route over the Pennines, including going over the Ribblehead Viaduct. Rather than going all the way to Carlisle, which is a long trip, we'll stop at Appleby. There's a Norman castle there, where you can have a guided tour -- the 12:00 tour would work well as the train we're looking at gets in to Appleby at 11:19 and the castle is only about half a mile from the station.

There are also lots of places to go walking in the Yorkshire Dales. We're not far from Malham Cove (which despite the name isn't on the coast) and Ingleton. But in general, there are many, many beautiful walks, if people would like to do that as well as or instead of any of the trips.

Please can you fill in the following poll, so I can look into group tickets/tours.

Poll #29246 Camp Trips

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I would like to do the following things:

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Saturday: Sizergh
9 (90.0%)

Monday: White Scar Cave
6 (60.0%)

Tuesday: Cliife Castle/Bolton Abbey
6 (60.0%)

Wednesday: Parcevall Hall Garden
6 (60.0%)

Thursday: Settle-Appleby railway excursion
6 (60.0%)

Thursday: Appleby Castle tour
6 (60.0%)

Comments

[turps]

That looks fantastic, with only staying the weekend I could only vote for one. But for that, we're National Trust members so won't need extra tickets.

[saba1789]

Terri!! I'm so excited you're going to be at Camp! :D <3

[turps]

:D

It's been too long since I saw everyone.

[saba1789]

SRSLY!!

[chalcopyrite]

Looking forward so much to seeing you!

[turps]

Me too in return.

It feels like forever since I've seen everyone.

[turlough]

You ARE coming this year, hooray!! I can't wait to see you again!

[turps]

I am, just for the weekend but I can't wait to see you too!

[pensnest]

My answers all apply to both Beast and myself!

[saba1789]

Since I'm only there for the weekend I'm definitely doing that one activity :D Also, thank you for having the Afternoon Tea on Sunday!! Aaaaah, it's so soon now, I'm excited!!!!!

[turlough]

Sad that you'll only be there over the weekend but still awesome to get to see you after so long!

[saba1789]

Yesssssss! I was also all "have to do the weekend at least, def better than nothing!!" Looking forward to seeing you!!

[nopseud]

Luckily CJ is coming earlier than she first thought, so there's exactly one day when everyone is there!

[saba1789]

Yay!!

[chalcopyrite]

Yay! Too bad it's only the weekend,but so much looking forward to seeing you!

[saba1789]

Saaaaaaame! I had to do the weekend at least!! Looking forward to seeing you very soon!

[turlough]

I would love to vist Malham Cove, it looks spectacular!

[ephemera]

I have ended up with an afternoon Tuesday train, so I think only Cliife Castle will be practical?

[nopseud]

Probably, I'm afraid. Can you catch the train from Keighley?

[ephemera]

I need to make the connection for the Leeds to London leg, but could probably pick up an extra ticket for the getting to Leeds part of things, if it makes things easier? Looks like I could be at Keighley for 5.10pm, rather than Settle for a 4.30 train, but does that change the logistics? I don't want to put stress on other people's afternoons! (annoyingly the later train sold out while I was booking the tickets!)

[nopseud]

Sorry, I've just realised Ilkley would be even better. Is there a plausible train from there to Leeds? It's only about 15 minutes to there from the Bolton Abbey car park.

[chalcopyrite]

Yay! I was hoping the Strid would make an appearance!

I suddenly realised yesterday that in (now less than) a week, I will be on a plane! I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone!

[adelate]

So many of those look fantastic! I’m looking forward to seeing everybody!