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We’ve had snow this week and half term is looming. February is always a funny one, isn’t it? Unless you’re heading off abroad for winter sun, you know it’s likely to be cold, wet, windy or wintery – possibly all four – and it’s difficult to know where to go. I think it’s helpful to apply my favourite motto: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
With that in mind, we drove up to Yorkshire this time last year to visit Harrogate, the quaint spa town that had been voted the UK’s happiest place to live in three out of the four previous years. Despite the temperature hovering in single figures, we thoroughly enjoyed blissful cycling, mooching through parkland…and plunging into a near-Baltic ravine.
Read on here to find out Yorkshire is a great place to visit whatever the weather.
and is a very popular day out for families staying there.
The grand finale is the best bit…. ‘the blob’ is a 33ft long floating air-filled pillow which one or two people jump onto from a platform, sending the person crouching at the other end flying up then crashing into the water.
I grew up near there – Scousers nicknamed those living in the surrounding countryside like me ‘Woolybacks’ – and remember the sadness of seeing shops boarded up, streets deserted and buildings falling to ruin. But a huge regeneration project has transformed the old docks into an eye-catching and dynamic hub, rebranded as Liverpool Waterfront.Grand state-of-the-art buildings such as the Museum of Liverpool stand side-by-side with traditional landmarks like the Grade 1 listed Royal Liver Building, its two iconic Liver Birds perched on top casting a protective eye over everyone.