To Barnard Castle to visit
the Christmas Market in the grounds of the splendid Bowes Museum where four
large marquees kept out the squally wind, rain and occasional snow, while
housing a host of stalls selling crafts, cloths, jewellery, food and drink, and
just three days before the big day it was convenient to gather a few gourmet
items for presents or personal consumption – cheeses, pies, puddings, ginger
wine, specialist sausages and scones soon disappeared into the shopping bags,
with smaller morsels similarly disappearing into the boy’s mouth as he grazed
on the offered samples; by the time we’d wandered round and walked back to the
town we were a bit cold and hungry so repaired to the excellent Clarendon Tea
Shop for coffee, hot chocolate and paninis.
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