Caves, rocks, campfires, cheese rolling, guns and the Best Fish and Chips in the World

Last weekend I caught a bus to Leeds to meet my friend Sarah who I met on the Top Deck trip. What followed was an action packed weekend.
As well as myself two other mates from the Top Deck trip Dene and Matt (aka Theo) made the trip to Leeds for the weekend catch up. On Friday night we headed out on a miny pub crawl on a cold, wet and very quiet night out in Leeds.
Saturday morning we packed Sarah's boyfriends Dave new van full of camping gear and headed to How Stean Gorge in the Yorkshire Dales. Dave came camping as did a few of Sarah's mates from Leeds. After setting up camp we set off exploring the gorge and exploring the surrounding caves. We climbed through caves with and without torches and got back to camp filthy dirty with soaking wet feet. The communal campfire was the place to be for the night and thanks to Sarah we had plenty of games to amuse ourselves and pass the time.
Sunday morning after leaving the gorge we found ourselves at Brimham Rocks a series of rocks prefect for climbing all over with some great views over the Yorkshire Dales. Theo showed off his monkey skills, or lack therefore, very nearly causing himself permanent injuries.
On the way back to Leeds we stopped at the Harry Ramsden's Fish and Chips. They claim to be the best fish and chips in the world. The food was good although for the price I feeel I could have got a portion ten times the size at my local fish and chip store.
Arriving back in Leeds we were ready for our next challenge. Theo had been to the famous cheese rolling festival in Gloucestershire but had missed the opportunity to run therefore we set up our own reenactment for his benefit. We raced down a hill a number of times chasing a round block of cheese and had a great time fighting for the cheese. Our own reenactment was maybe not as dangerous as the more famous cheese rolling but it still left us in pain the following day.
Sunday night we headed to the pub again to see a friend of Sarah's support a local Leeds band. Both Sarahs friend and the band Hope and Social were very good. The band inolved the audience in many of their songs and even distributed small whistle type instruments, I have forgotten what they are called, to everyone to join in their last song. After I worked out how to make a noise I enjoyed playing it for the rest of the night.
On Monday morning before I left Leeds Theo and I walked through the Royal Armouries museum with a very extensive range of swords, guns, spears or basically any form of weapon you could think of.
I boarded the bus back to London and left behind Leeds and a great weekend.