Reasons to go North

Posted by reasons on Jun 22, 2014 in Blog, Other Places, UK | 0 comments

Last week Striding Edge was a big picture mountain adventure. This week, no vast vistas or rolling hills, just...

Frequent visits have coloured my idea of walking in Nidderdale with vast sky over wild moors. Peat bogs and tussocks, dramatic drops and...

If you have to abandon the natural landscape for urbanisation then put genteel Harrogate high on the list. Betty’s for...

Rolling hills and wooded slopes of the Wye Valley, somewhat softer than Cumbria. Even the weather was kinder. For the first time this...

Posted by reasons on Jan 29, 2014 in Blog, Other Places, UK | 0 comments

For around 20 years the flat land of Warwickshire was my home. At various times the Malverns or Cotswolds the nearest thing I got to a...

A different kind of walk from last Saturday’s wild wind and rain at the National Trust’s Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal...