Reasons to go North

Posted by reasons on Jun 10, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 2 comments

Great day on Sharp Edge. Great pictures by Shirley Knight to inspire me to go further! Click then double click the pics to...

Austere and grey. Images of a former Yugoslavia I had, from a youthful Euro rail trip, followed by TV images of sniper fire during the...

Posted by reasons on Jun 3, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 0 comments

This hill sits inconveniently off the main Fairfield Horseshoe, so is easy to miss off the ‘big hike’ around, conversely, if like me, you...

Croatia is beautiful and varied. A walk through the Palklenica National Park, up through the Velik Paklenica Gorge changed from easy to...

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...

Posted by reasons on May 22, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 0 comments

The mist sat on the hills, just for a change. We went for a walk anyway. Sargent Man and High Raise, a couple of hills up behind Stickle...