In between.....

.....adventures in the Morgan,  we have enjoyed two great holidays in September.

The first was a visit to the North Yorkshire Moors railway,  something I have been hankering to do for some time.

The Horseshoe Inn,  Levisham

We stayed at a delightful pub with rooms, 'The Horseshoe Inn',  in the equally lovely village of Levisham,  chosen because of its close proximity to the station.

Levisham Station

The line runs from Pickering to Whitby on the North Sea coast,  somewhere else that we hadn't visited for many a year.

Whitby

It was a thoroughly enjoyable day and the weather was glorious.

Whitby Abbey from the train window...inspiration for Bram Stoker to write 'Dracula'

Our next holiday took us back to one of our favourite destinations,  Puerto Pollenca and its old town,  on the north west coast of Majorca.

Puerto Pollenca and the end of the Tramontana mountain range.

We have stayed in villas previously but on this occasion it was a hotel,  the 'Uyal Hotel',  architecturally splendid in the true Spanish tradition.

Sunrise from our balcony

Our room looked out over the Bay of Pollenca and we gloried in a magnificent view of the sun rising across the bay each morning.

The Old Town square in the shadow of Puig de Maria Monastery

The beauty of visiting again,  places that you know well is the fact that you don't have a desperate and pressing desire to explore the place when you arrive and can just relax.  Which is what we did,  enjoying a fabulous breakfast at the hotel,  taking it easy during the day and then sampling local restaurants for our evening meal,  which was always followed by a coffee and a brandy on our balcony.

Our Sunday lunchtime restaurant...fabulous!!

Fire Drill

What a life!!....and we have more holidays lined up as we are busy SKI ing!   (Spending the Kids Inheritance!).