Walking: This Easter we decided to visit the Peak District to do some walking (or ‘rambling’ as it seems to be called over here!) through the National Park. The Peak District stretches from the Midlands to the Pennines in the North (hell, hope that’s right) and according to the guidebook, it covers 1,404 sq km. The name is a bit misleading as the Peak District doesn’t really have lots of mountains. But there are enough beautiful valleys, hills, rivers, caves, limestone formations, lambs, birds, ancient rock-walls and endless rolling pastureland to make even the most hardcore rambler froth at the mouth. The best thing is that the southern end is only about two hours drive from London and there are endless walking trails and some fantastic biking paths. The first day we followed the rivers edge
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