We were in Harrogate for the week, so checked out our favourite places and revelled in the order and comfort of our house.
Favourite places in Harrogate:
- Bean and Bud cafe. The best coffee in town, and some excellent dark hot chocolate.
- Harlow Carr RHS gardens. The gardens are looking brilliant, with the exception of what appears to be a pretty lame commercial venture with Toyota that has seen one of their cars parked prominently where part of the Gardens Through Time used to be. Either that, or maybe a local pensioner had too much sherry and went rogue with their driving.
- Harlow Carr Bettys tea rooms. A separate item from the above, as you don’t need to go into the gardens to experience it. The best hot chocolate in the world ever, I reckon. At this time of year they also do Little Rascals, which are a smaller, tastier version of the Fat Rascal for which they’re more famous. Compared with their more portly parents, Little Rascals are more cookie-like, and have orange peel and chocolate chips instead of glacé cherry.
- Harrogate Antiques Centre. Lots of decent furniture here, but not easy to transport over to Ireland in a Ford Fiesta.