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Scotland over, time to continue my August tour of the UK and to be even handed decided to stay in Englands this weekend and head up to the Lake District in Cumbria with Dee who I travelled with in Turkey and Paul and Rach/Danny and Eva who we met on our Turkish boat cruise. I love the way a couple of days with people when travelling leads to ongoing friendships and trips elsewhere in the world. Dee and I jumped a train on Friday afternonn to Runcorn where Paul collected us so we could collect Rach in St Helens before doing [View Full Entry]

m1ssjane - Jane Pocock | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 20th 2009 | 31 Views | [diary=431044]

Dee & I
Dee, Eva & Danny
I call this ... the crane

Yay, the internet is working this morning so we have been able to load the first three days of our travel blog. We are really impressed with how easy it is to load and how straightforward it is to include photos! The weather is a bit better today. Still overcast first thing, but at least it is not raining anymore! First stop this morning was Stagshaw Garden, a National Trust property in Ambleside. The rhododendrons in the gardens are still quite spectacular although a little bit past their best. The views down over Lake Windermere were fabulous especially since the sun [View Full Entry]

Trabern - Tracey & Bernie Gaffney | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 1st 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=404167]

Stagshaw Garden, Ambleside
Lake Windermere from Stagshaw Garden
Townend House, Troutbeck

Oh dear, still wet this morning!! The plan was to take some great photos of the lakes during this visit, but they look very drab and uninteresting in these weather conditions! We decided that we would head to Cockermouth to visit Wordsworth’s birthplace. However, the house where he was born doesn’t open until 11.00am so we needed to fill in some time. We decided to drive over to the coast and do a bit of a loop back to Cockermouth to fill in an hour or so. We drove straight past Cockermouth on the A66 to Workington and then headed up [View Full Entry]

Trabern - Tracey & Bernie Gaffney | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 31st 2009 | 97 Views | [diary=404031]

Roman altars, Maryport
Roman earthworks, Maryport
Wordsworth's House, Cockermouth

We really enjoyed our stay at Lowther House (13 Inkerman Terrace, Whitehaven). We had a good sized room and a huge ensuite bathroom. And this morning we discovered that the shower was to die for!! We both enjoyed very long showers without feeling guilty about it. We were extremely well fed at breakfast finally having to pass on the croissants after we had already consumed cereal, full English breakfast and toast!! Mind you this ‘boutique accommodation’ came with a reasonably hefty £70/night price tag! After breakfast we headed back down the coast to Ravenglass with plans to see [View Full Entry]

Trabern - Tracey & Bernie Gaffney | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 31st 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=403784]

St George's, Millom
Cows standing in the rain
At the pencil museum!

Crazy roads
Crazy roads
Lakes District
We set off today to drive around the Lakes District and the first thing that comes to mind is crazy, narrow roads! If you have driven around Gaston Gorge in Sydney, Jenolan Caves or Myall Lakes you still won’t get an exact picture of what these roads are like. These roads make them look like 4 laned highways! Nuts is all I can say. Many times we had to flip in our side mirrors to be able to fit 2 cars past and let me tell you seeing buses try and maneuver around some of these little roads, I have no [View Full Entry]

Deb and Tom - Deb and Tom | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 11th 2009 | 39 Views | [diary=398141]

Beautiful landscapes
Narrow roads
Winding, narrow roads

Deb
Deb
Beatrix Potter's house
coming soon [View Full Entry]

Deb and Tom - Deb and Tom | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 18th 2009 | 457 Views | [diary=400047]

That famous gate
Tom at Hill Top
Deb at Hill Top

Thirlmere from Dunmail rise
Thirlmere from Dunmail rise
Thirlmere from Dunmail rise
Day 24 Grasmere to Carlisle 42 miles (746) A rather grey and misty start to the day busy up Dunmail rise above Grasmere but by the time I reached the top the sun was starting to appear and it opened up into a fine day. A short descent before the cycle route followed the engineers' route around the west of Thirlmere - very pleasant and easy as the five or six miles had been engineered to be almost completely level! Some fine views across the lake and as the mist finally burnt off a view up to the summit of [View Full Entry]

Dai the bike - David ap Bernard | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 11th 2009 | 8 Views | [diary=389740]

Thirlmere views
Thirlmere views
Thirlmere views

Windermere Ferry
Windermere Ferry
Windermere Ferry
Day23 Windermere to Grasmere - via Hawkshead 14 miles (704) Bydd yn cyrraedd yn Windermere a'r ardal llyniau at un o'r gloch yn y prynhawn. Des i ar y trên o Gaerfyrddin. Roedd y dref yn prysur iawn gyda llawer o ymwelwyr. Es i i'r fferi Bowness drosodd y llyn i Far Sawrey. Bydd cwpan o coffi a chachen at Hawkshead cyn es i i'r ElterWater. Wedyn, roedd hi'n llethr serth iawn i fyny i High Close a Loughrigg. Roedd hi'n llethr serth arall i lawr i cyrhaedd at Llyn Grasmere. [View Full Entry]

Dai the bike - David ap Bernard | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 11th 2009 | 6 Views | [diary=389738]

Windermere
Langdale Pikes
Walls and Fells near Grasmere

Cheers!
Cheers!
25's not that old
Day 140 A three day weekend, we caught the evening train Thursday to Windemere, the heart of the Lakes district considered one of the most beautiful landscapes in England. We arrived at 11.00 pm after we missing our connecting train. We checked in to the Lakes District Backpackers, an innovative non-staffed but clean backpackers, and we hit the only local restaurant open this late at night, the Chinese Dragon. The food was sensational hence we reminicsed last years trip to China. Day 141 Carly’s 25th Birthday, Unfortunately it was yet another grey English summer day, but that didn [View Full Entry]

Carly and Jez - Carly and Jez | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 12th 2008 | 142 Views | [diary=323449]

Beatrix Potter World
Jez at Beatrix Potter World
Carly and Mrs Rabbit

Aboard the MV Swan
Aboard the MV Swan
This has to better than climbing hills (she is thinking). It has been quite busy week, not all plain sailing but now it is time to Swan around...
Today is our last full day here, and after two rather hard ones coloured by the excellent weather which keeps the lakes full, we need a quieter one! It is sunny and wonderfully clear but the temperature has gone down further to around 6C, which means the fell tops definitely are freezing... (meteorology lesson no. 94 - temperature falls at the rate of approximately 2C per 1000 feet (it's called the dry adiabatic lapse rate, nice hmmm?), so a 3000 foot peak would be 6C lower than at sea level. So there). We drive down to Ambleside pier and get the [View Full Entry]

PeeWeeandBob - Robert Fletcher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 21st 2008 | 60 Views | [diary=337060]

The bird herself
Spot the Birdie
Fairfield Horseshoe


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