In 2018, our group cycle tour will be Ravenglass to Ravenscar. This will be a route we put together ourselves. There are sections of the route that we have cycled previously, and one such includes part of the C2C which Sarah and I completed a few years back. We had also used this section of the route on our Wainwright Coast-to-Coast, and clearly, Andy S hadn’t enjoyed the section that took us alongside the A66 too much. Instead, he proposed the…
For my birthday we decided on a walk taking in Cat Bells and High Spy. We like walks. We also like boat trips, especially having just enjoyed our trip to Wray Castle the previous day. So rather than take the car round to the start we took the ‘walkers special’ cruise from Keswick Pier to Hawse End. It was a fine Sunday morning as we arrived at Derwentwater. Cat Bells, of course, is arguably the best known of the Lower…
Last Friday was Sarah’s birthday and we had made a weekend of it. A meal out at our favourite Indian restaurant, a cycle ride and an evening with friends on the Saturday, and a day out to one of Sarah’s favourite places – Keswick – on the Sunday. Sarah reckons this post should have been given the title “It’s my party and I’ll walk if I want to”, for this formed the majority of our day as we enjoyed some wonderful…
Having enjoyed a few days in Caernarfon for Sarah’s birthday last month which we both thoroughly enjoyed, we now both took a day off work and spent the day at Keswick for Andy’s birthday. The weatherman had predicted heavy rain but this didn’t deter us and we are really glad it didn’t for us the photos below show we had a fabulous day We have visited Keswick recently (here, here and here) however it is always a place that we enjoy returning to since…
Our C2C Day 2 began with us leaving Keswick Youth Hostel on a bright Sunday morning by following NCN route 71 along the Keswick Railway Path. We cycled through Threlkeld. And then on to Greystoke. Here we decided to stop off for a cuppa at the Greystoke Cycling Café again. With its gluten-free bread it had been one of the highlights on our previous visit on our End-to-End. Then we cycled through Penrith and Langwathby, before stopping for…
