Fountains Abbey

Occasionally, just occasionally, the Yorkshire sky is blue. Not as warm as the weather in Cahors, Adrian, but the sky can get just as blue:-


We hadn't been to Fountains Abbey since we first moved up here, so it seemed a good way to spend a nice Sunday in October- the kids were having a great time even before they got down to the ruins, courtesy of the splendid visitors centre/restaurant complete with a good selection of indoor and outdoor toys. In fact, Jacob took quite some coaxing to get down to the actual abbey site especially as they've now built a childrens play area about half way down to the ruins.

However, its worth pointing out that a combination of stone ruins that you can climb on:-



and muddy puddles:-


make a winning combination for small boys, and having finally got them down to the ruins, it was quite a job to get them back out again :-)