http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , United Kingdom , England , Cumbria , Carlisle en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:45:11 +0000 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:45:11 +0000 Sunday July 29 2007 Glasgow to Carlisle615am Get the wake up call. Having taken my shower the night before I proceed to condense my two suitcases into one since Globus will only ldquoTake carerdquo of one. Wersquore suppose to leave our suitcases outside our hotel room door when we go down to breakfast at 7am.730am I am dressed and everything is repacked. I go down stairs and jo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-445906.html Friday 26th JuneIn Hog Heaven on the rails between Settle and CarlisleWe seemed to have saved some of the trips that we had thought about taking during our time in Settle way before we left home on this adventure.And today we would be immersing ourselves in part of railway history in England as we rode the historic and very scenic line between Settle and Carlisle.Whilst we wouldnrsquot be ridin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-413862.html Hi. Well if youve recieved an email from me inviting you to this page it means youve been selected to be included in my travel blog. Some of you i may have not talked to in a long time but im sure you all know about my desire to travel and see latin america. The last 2 years i have saved money for my trip working in Oxfordshire. On Sunday 4th January im off to Cuba for one month hopefully i will http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-359450.html Willowford is a 100acre farm currently converting to the organic standards of the Soil Association. The farm carries a flock of Swaledale ewes that produce prime lamb two dozen chickens for eggs and some Ayrshire cows from the dairy herd of neighbouring Slack House Organic Farm. They also have a hive of bees numerous cats and a very entertaining sheepdog. The River Irthing and the surrounding http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-356608.html Hello all Am testing this blog not sure what I am doing But want to keep you all updated with pics and stuff on holiday just to make you jealous 21 Sleeps to goxxxxxxxxxx http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-341578.html I haven't had the chance to write for awhile because I basically spent 3 days at home resting and doing sweet fuck all after the Rebellion Fest. Just reading back on my previous entries I really don't illustrate how awesome the Rebellion Fest was and how much fun I had. It's quite hard to describe seeing a band who made you sit back and think Wow these guys rule in more then a sentence without u http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-313463.html The campground we were at described itself as having a private beach. The truth was it backed out onto a mudbank. I have to say I really understand why the English go crazy for Australian beaches.Anyway we headed off to Gretna in the morning with little fuss other than that Christie's sniffles had developed into a gale. After our morning coffee we did a wee bit of shopping and then headed http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-297476.html Well i just thought i would test that this was working before i leave for the States Last day in the UK and so far today i have unpacked my uni room out of my loaded Fiat Punto...its not sitting the corner of my bedroom looking rather sad.Am in the process of printing out all the valuable details which will hopefully keep me right in the next 2 days in terms of flights social security CRB vis http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-285372.html Monday May 26thWe had a wonderful day at Hadrian's wall today. We left Lockerbie at 5.30am. Thankyou for your hospitality Lockerbie. We started at Brampton and took a photo of the statue of Hadrian himself very appropriate. Then off to Lanercost priory Banks East Turret and our first miletower with beautiful views over the Irthing valley. The Roman mile was a bit longer than the modern mile http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-281540.html Just testing to see if this works. Sorry for cluttering up your inboxesAmy http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-277874.html Hey well I am on the other side of the world now as some of you know I am in carlisle. This has been a time of some training and video work. I made a few diffrent videos and did alot of camera work at diffrent conferences. This time I have added a few extra pics because one of my very special friends asked that I publish more pics. so ya. I acutally am currently writing you from the philipines http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-224466.html I thought that it might be a good idea to figure out how to use this site before i leave for my travels after all i don't want to be spending ages trying to figure it out if im paying by the minute in an internet cafe so this is a trial run to see if i can create proper blog... i even went out and took some photos of the main touristy sites in Carlisle. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-89806.html Wow What a day. We have really seen some of the country today and had a real treat along the way .... but some of the hills would not be out of place on Le Tour.The day started well and we made good head way around Manchester and up Northwards to Blackburn. We passed Ewood Park and then started our climb up into the Forest of Bowland. The road up from Clitheroe to the first peak was steep and lon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-86988.html Hello peopleI'm off to China next week and rather than invade your inboxes all the time I've linked all my email contacts to my travel journal site.Basically that means you'll get a polite little message every time it updates.Should you want to give it a look you can or alternatively if you want to pretend you didn't notice it you can do that as well.It's not like I don't know I can go on a bi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-53706.html