Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A trip to Wensleydale

We've been here about two weeks now and I can't stop looking at the time (on television news) and asking myself, 'I know it says 08.30 so it must be 09.30, or is it?' I realise it's a sign of old age, but irritating nonetheless.


It was a beautiful, warm and sunny spring morning so off we went up to the Wensleydale Cheese factory in Hawes.
Jan oohed and aahed all the way as we drove through picturesque villages, Jervaulx Abbey, Middleham, Masham, Wensley and Bainbridge.
The factory bit of the cheese making process was fairly uninteresting especially as we had first seen a video of the process at the beginning of the tour. What was good however was the cheese tasting at the end.
I can't begin to describe all the different sorts of cheese they make but several stood out including a smoked one, one with ginger bits, one with apricots and one with chillies. In the interest of food research I had to keep trying and retrying them all, which made me feel kind of stuffed.
This meant that I struggled with lunch at The White Bear in Masham on the way back. I thought I did rather well and just kept struggling. We didn't have time on this trip, because we had to get to Bedale to pick up the Jeep, but we'll fit in a trip to The Theakston Brewery soon.


The MOT check in England would appear to be bit tougher than the CT in France. It only just passed but as soon as I get the certificate of conformity from Chrysler (now Fiat) France, I can get it registered. Making progress.

3 comments:

  1. Cheese tasting followed by lunch out? You're going to bring the NHS to its knees!
    I always got the impression that the CT was a bit lenient especially given the look of some of the old bangers on the road there!

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  2. Couldn't agree more. We lived in a relatively poor agricultural area (better known as France) and there is no way that the majority of the old bangers that float (or grind) there way around the countryside would pass an MOT. I guess that my garage were covering themselves because I'd just brought the car in to the UK but I got the impression that they were definitely looking for problems when they inspected mine.
    I take your point on the cheese tasting and lunch and I promise that I will improve (soonish).

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  3. Alex..decided not to pack it in after all.

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