More chips please, 24 November 2013

Although we'd had a calmer night's rest, it wasn't really looking like walking weather so we headed over the wall, figuratively speaking, and into the old abbey with free tickets from the hostel.  But there was an icy blast blowing up the cliff this morning, so we didn't tarry too long before getting into our respective vehicles for other historical delights.

Helmsley furnished a mediocre and overpriced lunch (yes, they couldn't get the chips right, again - what is Yorkshire coming to?), but it had a rather good pile of stones which turned out to be the holiday overflow to Belvoir Castle.  The rain stayed in the distance just long enough to provide a fine rainbow over the keep, and we could hardly have asked for more than that now, could we?