Reasons to go North

Before we set off on this hike I was cheerfully told we were going up the quick way. Straight up the front from Wasdale. . You can just...

The forecast was right today, the buffeting was considerable. Buffeting – should this not be something to do with eating...

Reasons was born because of days like Saturday. June days when the rain bustles in sideways, when frozen ice batters sandwich boxes and...

Having survived my Great North Swim on Saturday, paramount in choice of walk Sunday was not being caught up in the traffic from the...

Plitvice National Park in Croatia has an eight K string of sixteen lakes link by waterfalls. I haven’t been to any other major waterfall...

What a lovely day. The sun shone, yes, even here, in Cumbria, where I often think my blogs are nothing but a belated weather report. I...