Knight Stainforth caravan site our 41st trip part 2

Knight Stainforth caravan site our 41st trip part 2

 The above waterfall is directly at the bottom of the camping field. Brilliant and you get to see Salmon as well.

Assuming you are there in Salmon season. 

Yesterday was Tuesday and as everyone should know this is Settle Market day.

This is convenient situated in the market square, which isn't square at all but

more like 2 triangles put together to form a square  We had been here last year 

and there was one stall in particular that I was looking forward to and this year 

it wasn't here. Drat, I wanted some cheap crisps and snacks, but alas it wasn't to be.

After 4 minutes we had seen every stall and decided we weren't old enough to enjoy 

the cardigans and old lady handbag stalls and descended on the charity shops looking 

for a dress for my eldest's halloween costume. 

Me and the boy separated company from the girls and went to buy some chips instead. 

Our 3rd bag of chips in as many days, my lad had suddenly discovered an appetite and 

wanted 2 cones of chips but settled on 1 when he found out he was paying for his own.

 It started raining again so we headed to the car to wait for the womenfolk. 

We had paid for 1 hour but it was raining so hard and we were eating chips that it 

was only as we were leaving that we noticed we had gone over our ticket time by 

10 minutes.  Rebels.  Parked next to us were 4 motorbikes in 1 car space who 

obviously had forgotten their tickets as they had rushed to get a table in the chippy 

cafe. I don't feel as guilty for my 10 minutes now if they can park for free. 

After we had scoffed our chips and the boy had cadged half of mine as well as his own 

we decided to go to Malham Cove. The road from Settle to Malham is a very steep and 

windy narrow track.  On the way you go past some interesting geographic features, one 

that my daughter got too excited about was the interlocking spurs. She had to send a 

text to her school friend to tell her of her find. 

As you approach Malham Cove you can see it from about 2 miles away and it is an 

impressive view. It's hard to imagine that this was once a magnificent gigantic 

waterfall. There is a carpark in Malham which is £4 for the day. It is always full 

and we drove around it twice until someone arrived back and gave us their space and

day ticket. Fantastic and thanks, whoever you are. It's kindness like this that 

gives you a good feeling inside. There are 2 main routes to Malham cove and last 

year we took the long route, because it was a sunny day. This time the weather is 

colder and it keeps raining, so we took the short route. The walk is quite easy 

and the views are spectacular. If anyone is still reading this far down, then you 

should go and see it. 

One of the bribes we had used to get the kids to go on the walk was that we would 

buy them a hot chocolate from a cafe. The first cafe we came to was a poky little 

shop/store room/cafe. It didn't look inviting so we turned around and came back out

 again. We weren't the only family to do so. We found the next cafe which was 

called The Old Barn Cafe and decided we shouldn't take out a second mortgage on 

our house so only had the agreed hot chocolates and 2 cups of tea. 

There are some (read, quite a lot) of properties for sale in Malham. Some are 

residential but there are several businesses for sale. It's hard to imagine how 

you can't succeed in a busy place like this. Our only thought is greed makes them 

fail. £2.30 for a hot chocolate is a lot of profit per cup. At those prices at lot 

of customers keep on walking past your cafe and don't spend anything. If the price 

of a drink and cake was affordable and sensible the volume of customers would be 

greater and the overall profit would also be better. It makes sense to me. 

Back in Settle and it's about 3.30 and the market stalls have mostly gone so I 

drive around the sign which says 'no entry on Tuesdays' due to market day and find 

a lovely free parking spot so I can get some snacks from the co-op. 

Back in the caravan and we play cards and watch cartoons over wifi for a few hours 

before I get overtired and need my bed. 

A busy day tomorrow, we are packing up and going home and our friends are coming 

to visit so we can show them the salmon leaping the waterfall at the bottom of the 

site. 

Here is a link to our last trip to this site in 2012