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Day 2 of our holiday and even though it does not feel like  we have ventured out all that much, it definitely has been a very tiring day!! This morning we decided to travel the 5 miles from  www.thewoodlandshouse.co.uk to Malham Cove, with the drive up from Giggleswick being described as a rollercoaster ride along the roads by the kids in my car.

Such beautiful scenery and a lovely way to spend the day if holidaying here with dogs and children. This really is the perfect place if you are looking for a peaceful and scenic area, where you can partake in hiking, dog walking and tiring out the children.

Standing some 80 metres high and 300 metres wide and north of the mid craven fault, Malham Cove is a curved crag of carboniferous limestone formed after the last ice age. Meltwater, particularly from Malham Tarn, cut back the cove as it fell over the edge as a waterfall. This erosion took place more actively at the lip of the fall rather than at the sides, hence the curved shape………http://www.malhamdale.org.uk/malham_cove.htm

Tonight is looking to be a barbecue night, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that the weather holds off!! Then tomorrow it all starts again..!

Sue x

This year the Arscott Family have set off to Giggleswick, where we are going to be staying in a beautifully large house on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, or “Orkshire” as my 3 year old likes to call it.

From Taunton we set off along the M5 and finally made it into Giggleswick 6 hours later, arriving at the very impressive www.thewoodlandshouse.co.uk . Not too much to tell you all yet, with only just arriving and having an evening finishing up a bottle of Pimms with the rest of the family…did I mention, we have 10 children (all under 8 years old) and 10 adults staying in this house?! So far, I’m not sure if it was a crazy or brilliant idea.

Although I am quietly pleased that I managed to bag the bedroom at the top of the house, with the iron footed bathtub at the end of the bed!! (With the downside being that we are on the same floor as the children, this may be a decision I will regret later in the week!)

That’s all for now, I’m sure that Day 2 will be a much more exciting entry!!

Sue x

The UK has suffered a 'negligible' number of tourist cancellations despite images of rioting and looting being screened around the world, according to the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA).

ETOA reported its members had received 330 cancellations for the coming week by yesterday, out of more than 38,000 people booked to stay in London hotels on Wednesday.

An ETOA spokesman said: "On the basis that these people would have stayed two nights, this represents 660 missing bed-nights throughout the week or barely 95 cancellations per night." This represents a cancellation rate of 0.17%.

"Some of the individual cancellations are now rebooking," the spokesman added. "People cancel for a myriad of reasons: the disturbances have, for now, proved  as significant a factor as having a sick dog or flooding the bathroom."

The association suggested the fact that media coverage of the riots had shown "comparatively anonymous locations" had contributed to the low level of cancellations.

"No major landmarks and no significant numbers of tourists have been caught up in the trouble," said ETOA.

However, the organisation, which has 500 inbound tour operator members, said: "The significance lies in how a country is seen to deal with the trouble. The images have been of the police trying to contain the trouble. They have not violently confronted it.

"Images of property being damaged are very different from those of people being hurt. So the story of the last few nights, played out on television sets throughout the world, has been of an unarmed police establishing order.

"The story of the next few nights will be of the due process of law bringing suspects to account. London remains safe for tourists, and tourists understand that London remains safe."

source: www.travelweekly.co.uk

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Orlando

Depart:
Gatwick

Dates / Times:
Departing 01/09/2011
Returning 15/09/2011
Duration:
14 Nights

Staying in:

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Star Rating:
2

Room Type:
Board Basis:
RO

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