Thursday, 5 July 2018

Coast to Coast - Day 2

14 Miles Ennerdale Bridge to Rosthwaite




Ennerdale Water


Bog Aspodel





View back to Ennerdale Bridge and the sea






Sunday, 1 July 2018

Coast to Coast - Day 1

14 Miles - St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge










Rocks low tide Fleswick Bay


Don’t know what these are but hopefully someone will tell me


Cheese and pickle sandwich, wild thyme and a small tortoiseshell on Dent


View from Dent towards St Bees....


And onwards to Ennerdale






Prawn and lobster tagliatelle at the Shepherds Arms





Saturday, 30 June 2018

Coast to Coast - Day 0
























1 Mile - St Bees to the beach and back


All set fair for tomorrow 


Smoke rising from Winter Hill


St Bees Head


A Coast to Coast tradition not always as enjoyable as today.


Lulu’s Bistro B&B is right on the station platform



Offering views of trains


Surprisingly nice haddock and unlikely to be the only pub fish and chips of the holiday 


The Isle of Man on the horizon 

Sunday, 3 June 2018

C2C Pactice

Edale to home - 20 miles or so
This is the longest walk I’ve done for quite a while, but needed some practice before the start of my coast to coast walk next month.

Edale


Edale and Mam Tor

Snake Pass

Walk down to Fairholmes

View towards Sheffield with Agden and Damflask reservoirs

Bradfield Church 

Last leg into Sheffield after a cheeky pint at the Old Horns




Thursday, 24 August 2017

Cotswolds walk - Day 3

Last 8 miles - Burton-on-the-Hill to Upper Slaughter

A short walk after breakfast to the nabotique at Sezincote.

Elevenses - tea and lemon drizzle cake - at longbough.

Lunch - brie and cramberry baguettes - between Lower and Upper Swell.

Lower Swell

Afternoon tea at Upper Slaughter










Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Cotswolds walk - day 2

Another 8 miles from Ebrington to Burton-on-the-Hill

The path from Ebrington to Paxford. The walking today is even more gentle than yesterday.  

We got to Paxford before opening time for the Churchill Arms.

Time for afternoon tea at Morton-in-the-Marsh

The path through the barley to Burton-on-the-Hill

Climb up to the Horse and Groom at Burton

Tuesday, 22 August 2017

Cotswolds walk - Day 1

8 miles or so, Weston-sub-Edge to Ebrington

The first Day of our 3-day walk southish along the Cotswolds started with a climb up Dovers Hill from Weston-sub-Edge.  There are a couple of paths up Dover's Hill, but our first choice ended at a cow filled field that we were reluctant to cross. Doubling back, we escaped the cows and also saw this amazing humming bird hawk moth feeding on a buddlija bush.

It's a bit blurry as it was moving so fast

Weston-sub-Edge

Top of Dover's Hill

Chipping Campden for lunch


Market place Chipping Campden

The Ebrington Arms for a bath, dinner and bed.