Holiday - Leyburn, The Reason Why.

 After leaving Skipton yesterday we went to a place called Leyburn which is a very nice place, everywhere around here seems to be a nice place to be honest. 

Dad said to me yesterday, with mum present, that seen as it appeared that I was planning on being around for the duration that it was important for me to be shown my roots and so that's really what this holiday is about.

"Now that we've all decided to make our lives one and the same, we think it's important for you to see and understand where your roots lie. This is of course not to take away anything from who you are as a person you understand." Is what he said.

So with that in mind I will tell you the reason for a visit to Skipton yesterday. As I said, Skipton is an old market town, which even today has a cattle market as well as street stalls. Back in the day when dad was a youth not much older than me there no such things as supermarket contracts and such like, all your livestock was taken to a market, such as Skipton to be sold.

So one late afternoon, after a trip to Skipton Market, my dad and his dad were returning home when the cattle truck developed a problem. At the time dad didn't have a mobile phone, I don't think they were even invented. So they couldn't call someone out to fix it, they had to try and get somewhere that had a local mechanic, which usually meant a village or town. In this case the next town was Leyburn. They pulled up outside one of the pubs and went inside to enquiry about a local mechanic. Whilst there dad saw this really nice young girl, very much like me he reckon's. I think he was just trying to flatter me! Anyway, there was no one able to do anything to get them going before the morning, so the two dad's ended up staying the night where they were.

Dad didn't waste his time drinking and talking to the locals, many of which were farmers who they knew. Instead dad focused his attention on this hot young girl behind the bar. They got on so well that before they parted company for the night they agreed to see each other again as soon as possible. As things turned out this sweet young bar girl eventualy became dads wife and my mum.

So we stayed the night near to Leyburn. Because it's a pain moving the camper once you have it on site dad decided to book a taxi to take us in to town but then the owner of the campsite where we stayed said they were going in to Leyburn themselves so kindly took us in to town where we went and had an evening meal at the very pub that mum and dad met in. They say that it's obviously changed a bit but even so I really appreciated seeing it. I don't know why but it made me feel sort of special in some way.

We stayed there all night before getting the taxi back to the campsite.