Blogs from Patterdale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Monster of a day! Up nice and early at 6.30, breakfast for 7.30 and off at 8.00. Ready for the day. Up, up and away for today. Straight into the first beast of a climb to Lining Crag. Nice gentle start through to Stonethwaite before we start to go up. we look up at a HUGE monstrosity called Eagle Crag - looks enormous, but a bit concerned since the guidebook says that we’ll be looking down on that soon(ish). So up we go - already starting to get steep and rising above lovely waterfalls. Still steeper until a beast of a climb to the top - more like scrambling up these rocks. Finished! Except we weren’t - over the top just to see another peak even higher that we needed to go up to Greenup Edge ... read more

The cold I had started to get came on with a vengence in the army part of the previous evening meaning I had a decision to make about walking.....on the guides advice I decided I would take a day in the van instead and was promptly joined by Pete’s mother and Jess all in the van for a rest!! We drove to Ambleside for a little shopping and then through to Patterdale to await the others who had trekked into location. Pete will write the rest of the blog from here..... I was the last Garrett standing on the trip after a particularly hard previous day for the girls. James our guide for the day gave us a quick briefing on the go as our hotel had delayed the collection of the packed lunches much to ... read more

Hello everyone! sorry its been so long!we have hardly been still since we arrived in the uk,and have crammed in so much..we are all completely knackered but v.v happy!after a swift pint in the pub on the way to peterboro from heathrow headed straight to our friends lyndzi,alan ,james and jessica(.thanks guys,,for putting up with the chaos, lov ya,you have been brilliant!))england is SO pretty..some surreal moments in my home town...having an evening with my aunty,uncle and cousins was unforgettable.special.charlie and his 2nd cousin look like brothers and im sneeking my 2nd neice ,paige ,home with me!bliss..memorable moments..watching england play in the yaxley british legion club and with our friends-complete with free cheese and branston sandwiches about 10.30pm,surprising our old neighbours and friends,having lunch in a beer garden with my 2 childhood bestist friends,lyndzi organisi... read more