On the road again 🎶

Today we left York behind and made our way to Newcastle. However, before we left Dani prepared a picnic and on the way we stopped at Gibside, an old Georgian era estate that is now effectively a national park.
It was much less touristy than all our previous stops. We had a lovely picnic lunch, the kids played on a playground and then we went for a 4.5km walk around the estate (it was supposed to be 3.5 km but our navigator took a wrong turn and it took a while to realise that we were heading in completely the wrong direction).
Along the walk we found a low ropes course that we all tried, and also went past the ruins of the old homestead and orangery. Near the end we stopped for a cuppa and the kids had an ice cream.Read more