Reasons to go North

Clouds sat low. Drenched. Low pressure pushing stair rods of rain. No chance of last week’s escape by climbing higher. A day when tacit...

The dreary drifts of November grey. Cold nights, damp dawns and leaden skies. In valleys, on lakes , the weighted coat of autumn wrapped...

Autumn this year has stretched on. Golden leaves. Red leaves. Yellow leaves. Draped over lanes Reflected in tarns and stretched over...

Just because I think Cumbria is so wonderful, and I was born here, and eventually found my way back, I have this odd thread of thought...

Ancient routes criss cross the fells. From Langdale to Borrowdale. The Cumbria Way traces through, up and over Stake Pass between...

The Indian summer continues ‘up north’. Even at the weekend. Soft white morning mists hanging in valleys, slowly clearing to blue. Wast...