Day 260 Arbor Low & Hartington

We had a slow start today as we were distracted by the Ireland Australia rugby World Cup game.  Anne & Bill are leaving today so packed their stuff, checked out of their room &  then came over to our van.  We watched the end of the game & post match commentary as Ireland had put in a surprise performance and won against the odds.  Dodging the showers we then visited Arbor Low, a 6,000 year old henge just up the road from us.  The stones have all been toppled and lay flat on the ground but it must have been very impressive in its day.  Visiting places like this always makes me think of the lives of the people who built it.  People like us with the same feelings and emotions but with such different and hard lives.

Next stop was the village of Hartington where we thought there was a cheese factory that we could visit.  the factory, which made Stilton cheese, closed three years ago but the village was very pretty.  There's still a cheese shop, so we bought some local cheese, & two pubs.  We had a super ploughman's lunch in the Devonshire Arms & lingered there over coffee while waiting for the showers to pass.  Back at the van, mid afternoon we said goodbye to A & B.  We've had a quiet time since then.  At least I've been able to sort through yesterdays photos.

I only took a couple of shots today.  My main one is of one of the showers surrounding us at Arbor Low and the other a view of the henge itself.

Showers

Arbor Low Henge