The Great Yorkshire Show 2026

Sometimes when we go away we get trains, buses and taxis to make the journey. I see this as an adventure as we both had to stop driving due to our eyesight deteriorating.

We did the exact thing above to get to a caravan park recently. I’ll write about that soon in another post.

This time, the easiest way was to go with a coach company for a day trip. Easier and cheaper than we could work out to do.

Shout out to Caledonian Travel for these trips. We’ve been loads of places. Far and wide in the UK.

We arrived and it was overcast. We had our vest tops on and started to look at the clothes stalls with an eye on the shirts. We braved it out and it became another lovely warm day.

We took a picnic with us in our new picnic rucksack. Anyone that knows us, knows we are always with a rucksack. It’s easier for Richard as he has one hand using his cane, with me it’s easier than carrying things in heavy bags, which just agrivates my back and causes pain from an operation I had on it when I was younger.

There were buildings with different foodstuffs and products. Although the only thing I bought from here was some Grasmere Gingerbread for my sister. That’s in the Lakes in Cumbria. Very Un Yorkshire ☺️

There was food demonstrations, you could look around a nearly £75,000 static holiday caravan. It was very nice. As it should be for that price 😁

Beautiful tractors and an absolutely massive combine harvester.

Showjumping, horses and carts, judging the animals to win rosettes. Prizes for the cheeses in the foodhall.

There were beer tents, coffee places, ice cream vans, charity stalls, bee and honey huts, lots and lots of stalls.

A massive big wheel which I love, as my Mum, Dad and sister used to take a Fair Organ around steam engine rallies when we were young. If we were lucky, Mr Fairborough who owned one, used to let us go on for free whilst he chatted to my Dad. And other times if they needed to balance it up. They’d shout us over as me and my sister would be cycling around the rally field.

So much of the day reminded me of those times.

Getting around anywhere busy, especially on a field which has partial tarmac and rubble paths when you’re eyesight isn’t brilliant, can take the enjoyment out of the day as you’re concentrating so much whilst trying to look at the attractions.

I keep making sure I’m looking at the floor also, as I tell Richard, who uses a long cane, if there’s steps or kerbs, and also myself as I’ve tumbled off a few.

I was there to see the animals really. It was lovely to see them hosing the cows down and having fans in the animal sheds.

But it did upset me though thinking of all the transportation of the animals in the heat and having to be tethered whilst in the sheds. Just for our enjoyment. I understand they cannot just roam around. Some of those cows are massive!

I just wanted to cuddle them all. We saw cows, horses, sheep, rams, goats, pigs, bees and a sheepdog!

Needless to say, for your own sake doing all this whilst partially sighted can stress you out. So we sat down under a tree and had our lunch. Kept stopping to sit, take it all in and have a drink, then start again.

A lovely day out. Needs a bit of patience and time if you have any sight loss. One thing I’ve had to learn is patience. It’s better than not trying at all and missing out.