After checking in to my cottage/flat last night I went into Wetherby where I brought Some OS maps of the area and then went on to Harrogate to meet the others.
It took ages to find the hotel, the Aston on Franklin Mount, only to find the hotel closed. Bugger I thought. It turns out the hotel had staffing issues and so all the guests had been moved to a sister hotel just around the corner.
With an example of incredible deductive reasoning that would have put Sherlock Holmes to shame I found the hotel within 10 minutes of realising no one was staying at the Aston. Ok, so I ran into Jane and she told me the hotel name and street, and detailed instruction on how to find it :-)
Once everyone had found the new hotel we went into the town Centre and ate at La Tasca which was very nice and I got a voucher for a free bottle of wine which will be really useful for me - There is actually a La tasca in Cambridge so maybe I'll get to use it with Matt, Nicola, Martina and Ginny.
At the end of the evening I came back to my flat which is on the edge on the Marston Moor battlefield where hundreds if not thousands of people died in 1644. The night was dark and windy and the rain was lashing down and I was kept awake until 3am by a spirit who tried to communicate with words and images with means that I don't fully understand.
It was very spooky but a lot of fun :-)
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