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Published: October 17th 2008
Sunbeams on Rydal Water
From nearly all the way up Nab Scar, desperately climbing to catch the moment before the clouds closed over again!We have left all the jolly Residents behind in the hands of our excellent staff and made the 340 mile journey through some of the UK's finest car parks - notably the traffic jams on the M6 between Birmingham and Manchester, which today took an unreasonable 2 hours. Chris has gone on from his head start in Manchester and phones to say he's in the pub near the house at Rydal (schweinhund!) while we are still south of Man.
We arrive at Hallbank Cottage at about 3.30 pm. All is well at this familiar house, but it feels like it has been unoccupied for some weeks and needs serious warming up with the log fire. The heating is playing up (i.e. not working) but this takes another 24 hours to figure out.
First duty is to clear away the cobwebs of the 7 hour journey and get up Nab Scar, a swift 1000 feet climb behind the cottage. It's clouding over but dry with a few rays of sunlight beaming down like the searchlights on the ET spaceship illuminating the surface of Rydal Water.
We retire to the Glen Rothay Hotel for dinner.
Today's tally (ignoring the
Penny n Chris up Nab Scar
First evening after the long drive for some us! 330 miles the car did for us) was 2 miles and 330m of height.
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