After our great family holiday staying in our cottage holiday home in the Scottish Borders, we took a few days to make our way home to make our holiday together last a little bit longer. We enjoyed two days in Yorkshire visiting Fountains Abbey and The Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
In this post we will share our day at Fountains. After a wet and stormy drive down from Scotland we arrived in Yorkshire for an overnight stay. Jude and I had not been to Fountains Abbey for years so were pleased to take the family there.
As we wandered down the sloping pathto the abbey ruins we could admire the amount of structure still left standing. It is really impressive.
Arabella enjoys life and loves going out and about – outside is where she prefers to be.
Once down among the stonework you can really appreciate the strength of the building and the sheer brilliance of it’s construction.
Mother Nature enjoys a good ruin to grow on finding the tiniest crack with a drop of soil in in which to grow.
The monks had left us a convenient stone seat on which we could perch for a picnic.
As we started clearing our picnic away the clouds darkened and cold rain drops fell. We struggled to find any shelter from the following storm. Arabella never minds rain because it means puddles, her favourite phenomena. I hope you enjoy this set of photos where she shows her delight at puddles.
We just had time to explore the outside boundaries of the site before the closing time closed in on us.
We followed the finger posts back to the car park at the end of another great family day out.
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2 replies on “A Family Holiday in Scotland – Part 6 – Fountains”
I can only imagine the glee she enjoyed in those puddles, but I’m guessing someone had the chore of cleaning the mud from her shoes. 🙂
She loves being outside in the countryside or in gardens and if they have autumn leaves or puddles so much the better.