Reasons to go North

Well worth travelling off the ‘mainland’, for an outsider that seems a bit of a misnomer for the main Island of the Shetland, being it is...

Venture north and walk a circle from Esha Ness lighthouse (Cicerone Walk 63). Beware of ponies on route, delightful hairy monsters....

And I could not have been further from the razzmatazz of Jubilee day, London and pouring rain. The seemingly endless day was picture...

When I left Oxenholme Station at 9am I did not realise that by 6pm I would be walking along bird bedecked cliffs and enjoying the...

A perfect day for walking, maybe. High pressure and temperatures of 27°C plus, with a gentle breeze. The Coniston area was once a mining...

The Troutbeck Tongue sits between the jaws of Hart Crag and the west ridge of Kentmere, by all accounts formed when its rocky core proved...