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    Day 2

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    Harrogate - Saltaire - Yorkshire Valleys National Park

    We have a busy day ahead: after a short stroll around the Montpellier Quarter, breakfast and a visit to the Harrogate Antiques Market, take the scenic B6161 road to the UNESCO World Heritage Saltaire factory village, then on to the Yorkshire Valleys National Park.
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    Bettys Café Tea Rooms
    09:1030 min

    Bettys Café Tea Rooms

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    Part of the must-do in Harrogate is Swiss rösti (aka the familiar draniki) for breakfast at the Bettys Café, located on Parliament Street, the city's main street. The first store of the chain opened right here in 1919 and in due course its popularity grew so much that cafes appeared in York, Ilkley and other cities. Bettys, by the way, like most Yorkshire restaurants, serves strong local tea. They make sure to bring one decanter of hot water (apparently for those who had plenty of brew) and another with milk. Those who drink tea without milk are looked upon by Yorkshiremen with a certain amount of scepticism and mistrust. One lady who worked in the village bakery was even a little offended when I asked her not to add milk to her tea.
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    Nordish Saltaire
    10:3030 min

    Nordish Saltaire

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    The next stop is the town of Saltaire. It was founded in 1851 by the English wool magnate Titus Salt, who moved all his production (five separate mills) from Bradford and established a large textile factory there. Salt built a fine, even by today's standards, village for the workers: with plumbed stone houses, a park, hospital, school, library and an impressive town hall. Such a standard of living was quite rare in the middle of the 19th century.
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    Salts Mill
    11:0530 min

    Salts Mill

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    Interestingly, the factory itself became a masterpiece of industrial art. More than a thousand machines were installed there, and about three thousand people worked behind them. In 1986, the factory closed, but it was purchased by a local entrepreneur, who breathed new life into it and opened offices, a fabulous bookstore, cafes, restaurants, and a contemporary art center - a gallery with the largest collection of works by British artist David Hockney.
    As you might guess, Hockney was also born in Yorkshire. His family lived in the nearby industrial town of Bradford, the 'wool capital of the world', where Salt's mills used to be located. The gallery, established on the site of the former factory, now displays dozens of the artist's contemporary works, most of which were inspired by Yorkshire landscapes, as well as earlier sketches and drawings. Posters of Hockney's paintings and books on art are also for sale here.
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    Salts Village Bakery Ltd
    11:4030 min

    Salts Village Bakery Ltd

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    A walk through the factory grounds is a journey through time that is a thrill. Afterwards, you can pop into a small bakery to grab a snack for the road. And there's more adventure ahead as we head into the Yorkshire Valleys National Park.
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    Malham Cove
    13:0030 min

    Malham Cove

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    Much of Yorkshire Dales National Park is in the northern part of the county. Consisting mainly of endless rows of valleys, rivers, rolling hills and heathland, it's an ideal place to rejuvenate. The park is also home to several visitor centres, dozens of cosy villages and small stone-built towns, with their own ancient churches and dilapidated castles, where some 20,000 people live permanently.
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    Malham Tarn Walkway
    13:5530 min

    Malham Tarn Walkway

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    The Yorkshire Valleys has some must-see sites - key points between which you can build your itinerary. On the first day we visit two of them - the Malham Cove Nature Amphitheatre, where scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 were filmed, and Malham Tarn Glacial Lake - and then we head off to rest after a long drive.
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    The White Lion Inn
    15:3030 min

    The White Lion Inn

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    The infrastructure in the park is excellent, so there are plenty of places to eat and sleep, including campsites, hotels, holiday lodges and traditional pubs that offer rooms for guests. We chose the latter option and, hoping for luck, booked a room at The White Lion Inn pub in the central part of the park. As it turned out later, the place had been bought out last year by a young couple: they had completely refurbished the building and rooms, and invited a talented chef to the kitchen. At first I was a bit worried (admittedly, it was the first time I'd ever slept in a pub) that it would be cold, dark and not very cosy inside. But it turned out to be the opposite: the dinner was excellent, and we slept soundly and sweetly after our walk in the fresh air.
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