Reasons to go North

‘Hashtag’ Cumbria is open! This weekend it was open and beautiful. With the A591 round Thirlmere still out of action, businesses in...

Coniston and Coniston Old Man are usually synonymous with me and most other walkers. Head to this westerly Cumbrian village and I’m most...

Hordes of kids. Jostling lift lines. Raucous teenagers released from the rigidity of school. Traffic levels more like the M6 than a...

Still wet, still windy and yet another named storm, Imogen, is approaching. Thankfully there was a unpublished lull before her arrival and...

I sincerely hope that this winter is not typical of what is to come with the advent of climate change. At least not in my life time. (On...