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Do you know the ingredients to a perfect day? Well, I do *smug face.
One of this family's most-loved and most-visited places is the world-famous National Railway Museum in York.
Saturday saw us head out in the sunshine for a glorious day at the most tranquil and captivating of Georgian mansions: Beningbrough Hall in York.
It was the day before spring had officially sprung but the gardens told us otherwise.
Sunday saw us wrap up warm from the the bitter 2 degree cold, and scoot off to nearby York for Sunday lunch at the newly opened Refectory Kitchen and Terrace in the Royal York Hotel.
Fun in the sun on Saturday meant heading to one of our favourite places in Yorkshire-Beningbrough Hall.