Harrogate is a lovely town, but one of the best things about it is where it sits. Within an hour you can be at a UNESCO-listed abbey, in the middle of York, or in the Yorkshire Dales. Callie’s siblings all live in Harrogate and I’ve lived in the Leyburn area of the Dales, so I’ve…
If there’s one thing Harrogate does better than anywhere else in England, it’s afternoon tea. This is the town where Bettys opened its very first café in 1919, and the grand old spa hotels have been serving tea to visitors for well over a century. My favourite so far was the bookable afternoon tea in…
Harrogate was the first place Callie took me when I came to visit her in Yorkshire in 2019. Most of her family live here, so I’ve been coming back ever since, and it’s still my favourite town in the county. It’s an elegant Victorian spa town in North Yorkshire, England, famous for its healing waters,…
I love Harrogate. It’s where Callie took me the first time I visited Yorkshire, back in 2019 when we were in a long-distance relationship. She lived there then, her parents lived there, and still, all of her siblings live in Harrogate, so I’ll admit I’m biased now. But I wasn’t in 2019, and I fell…
Trying to choose the best places to visit in Yorkshire isn’t easy. Yorkshire is England’s biggest county, with everything from medieval cities and elegant spa towns to wild national parks, stone villages and a rugged coastline. The good news is that you can have completely different trips depending on where you go. A weekend in…
If you’re looking for things to do in Yorkshire, you’re going to have a hard time narrowing it down. Yorkshire is massive. You’ve got medieval cities, seaside towns, two national parks (plus a corner of a third), tiny villages, castles, abbeys, waterfalls, some very good pubs and enough walking routes to keep you busy for…