Week 8- still no luggage, the Yorkshire Dales

Copenhagen to Yorkshire Dales- unknown (1697)
Highlights- exploring the Dales, coal mine experience, visiting the Black sheep brewery, walking up one of the tree peaks, discovering Malham cave area, finding the hidden waterfalls at Ingleton
Lowlights- still no luggage, lots of rain but no floods, no rain coat
Accommodation- Bridgette's parent's holiday accommodation in Steaton

A funny week of being in limbo, no real idea where the luggage was or how long we were going to be off the road. But we had a great opportunity to spend some quality time with Bridgette's parents and explore the Dales better. We stayed in Steaton a small village south east of Skipton south of the Yorkshire Dales national Park. This provided a fantastic gateway into the Park where there's lots of walking and places of interest to explore. This is a huge caving, rock climbing and waterfall spot due to the masses of limestone. This provided lots of opportunity for adventure. It also has the three peaks (not mountains), one of which we walked up.

Unfortunately the week was marred by the pending or actual down pour of rain. With our rain coats somewhere in transit we were stuck with ponchos and umbrellas somewhat limiting our hill walking exploits. But we were more fortunate than most of England with no major flooding. The water actually filled the rivers and made many of the waterfalls quite spectacular. The bad weather days were spent exploring some of the indoor attractions including the National coal mining museum. Sound a bit daggy but the 150m ride down underground was a bit of fun, and the tour guide was an ex-miner provided a hilarious yet quite purposeful explanation of the the mine and mining in the UK.

option is for 5 week cycling to Spain where Peter will be A lot of time was available to contemplate the options for our ride. As time ticks by the opportunity to dive deep into Europe and down to turkey is fast disappearing. A more realisticstudying over the northern winter. This is a little disappointing since we have progressed little actual distance towards Australia since our departure in May. But I guess we will have to return next summer with a vengeance.