Sunday 29 June - Otley

Where's Bertie? He's in a car park in Otley, where it's free on a Sunday, then 50p per hour from 7.30 on Monday morning.

Weather: Hot and sunny,

When I said yesterday that it wasn't impossible that we might return to the Yorkshire Air Museum within the year's validity of our tickets, I didn't expect to do so quite this soon! Having surveyed the options of where to go today, and selected one of them, I realised that our onward route was going to take us past the museum. Yesterday's lunch in their cafe had been sufficiently substantial that I hadn't room for cake as well, and I thought it would be remiss to pass so close by and not take the opportunity to sample the Battenberg cake that I'd had my eye on yesterday.

 

Mick went for the TwixKat, whilst I had the Battenberg. Neither of us was disappointed.

A quick visit to a few exhibits of the museum, then back to Bertie to continue on to our next destination, on the way driving past the two other overnight options that I'd identified, having selected the furthest, here in Otley. We arrived to find that the Temporary Holiday Site we'd intended to use doesn't open until tomorrow (in my defence, when I gave the App start and end dates for our stay, I thought it would only give me options that coincided entirely with those dates, particularly as it was only two nights!). Contemplating what we could do instead, one of the possibilities was to continue down to Halifax, mow the lawns at Ma-in-Law's house (for which purpose we are currently carrying a lawn mower around in Bertie's boot. Bet there aren't many motorhomes driving around the UK so equipped!) then go on to the Peak District. That plan met a stumbling block when we realised we'd forgotten to bring keys to Ma-in-Law's house with us. We can 'borrow' a set from the estate agent, but not on a Sunday.    

In the end we popped Bertie in the far corner of one of the town's car parks and, after a look around the town (didn't take long) and a very short walk along the river (my shin is still recovering from last week), we decided we would just stay here for the night.