Le Grand Depart !

Beautiful Yorkshire is the setting for the Grand Depart of the Tour de France this year and communities along the route of the race are planning lots of celebrations to welcome visitors to our lovely part of the world. One of the Embroiderers Guilds in the area has made a banner following the route through the Dales with each town and village marked with a small t-shirt embroidered with its name and an image to suggest its location. The banner will be on show at the Regional Day of the NE region then displayed in a shop window in Leyburn for the days surrounding the race. Closer to the time I hope to blog the whole banner, but in the meantime here is my contribution .

The reference is the village's locally renowned pub, The Blue Lion - world famous round here !