I’m going to be in Harrogate this weekend with the other half. Any recommendations for things to see, do, eat, drink etc.

Cheers

Rio

go get ripped off at bettys

Thanks tails – already had that on the list. Any cakes you would recommend?

fat rascal

bang birds in the gardens , thats what i did when i was posted in the army there 😉 mmm happy days

Honestly I have only been there with work so have little knowledge of the place, but is it not a spa town? It seems decent nice big park at one end. go and get drunk and wonder around in the cold it’s good for the soul. hope you have a nice time.

funnily enough it was great for chasing tail 😉

Went there for a wedding a few months in ago in HG and the reception was in Chez la Vie, opposite Waitrose on the same road as Blacks. Can throughly recomend their fisherman’s pie. Then head over to the Old Bell Tavern near the gardens to sample a fine selection of real ales amd belgium beers.

You can smoke tea in Harrogate.

Beware of the cakes.

brdavies – now your talking! Old Bell Tavern it is.

Fat rascal and yorkshire curd tart in Bettys

Turkish baths are good

Damn Yankee (scooby snack!) or the Jinnah for dinner

Old bell tavern for ale

Walk in the gardens

drink of sulphur water by the pump rooms

brimham rocks for a walk

Old Bell Tavern is a very short walk from Bettys, you head down Montpellier (not Parliment st) to the roundabout at the bottom, OBT is on the roundabout. Neil Morrisey was in there on Monday night. Check the Blues Bar if you like live music (a few doors down from Bettys). If your into that sort of thing, they have the only RHS gardens north of Watford gap (top of Otley Road). decent restaurants that I know of are The Drum and Monkey and William and Victorias both are a short walk from The OBT.

Drum & Monkey for fabulous seafood.

A trip to Knaresborough with its castle, river and Mother Shipton’s cave is worth doing.

Also Brimham Rocks are work seeing.

I just got back from Harrogate – stayed in The Crown Hotel and drank in the Old Bell. Also ate in the Drum and Monkey and got food poisoining – it might not have been from there but not sure what else I ate that could have been dodgy that day – didn’t drink much that evening BTW!

I keep meaning to take the kids here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh1slp_Fi1A&eurl=http://www.mothershiptonscave.com/media.html&feature=player_embedded