My sister Claire and her boyfriend Nick were holidaying in Derbyshire last week, so yesterday travelled that extra stretch to visit Bradford for a few hours. I had a concert in the evening so it meant that we only had chance to do something during the day.
I’d been hunting around on the internet for somewhere we could go for lunch. It had to be a good Yorkshire pub with ‘proper’ (but reasonably priced) grub. In the end I decided that we’d try ‘The Moorlands Inn’ in Ogden, towards Halifax. It turned out to be more-or-less perfect. An ordinary decent pub up on the moors with good beer and honest ‘home-cooked’ style food. The portions were massive – I seemed to barely make a dent in my giant Yorkshire pudding filled with beef, roast potatoes, peas and carrots before I was stuffed. Unusually, Nigel was tempted by the veggie option – 3 bean chilli enchilada, which he seemed to enjoy. Claire also had the enchilada, and Nick, like me, chose the giant Yorkshire pud.
Feeling very full after lunch, we weren’t up to doing much, but I did want to go and take a close look at the wind farm on Ovenden Moor. We can see the wind turbines from our house (and indeed from many areas of Bradford that have good views), but I’ve long been curious to see them close up.
When we got out the car at the wind farm car park, it was bitterly cold and very windy (to be expected I suppose!). We walked over to the viewing platform, but it was too cold to stop for long or even remove hands from pockets to take a photo. I was pleased I finally got to see the wind farm, but unfortunately we could not see back to Bradford from the position we were stood.
Windfarm facts here.
After a short time we went back to the car and headed home. Nick and Claire stayed for a cup of tea then headed back to Derbyshire to get packed ready to go back to Aylesbury today.