Skiddaw Little Man and Lonscale Fell

The rather grey and dreary start we’ve had to summer this year means that we’ve not really been over to the Lakes for any Wainwright bagging day trips. In fact, we’ve not hopped over just…

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Return to Daisy Bank Camp: a Weekend in Calderdale

Two years ago we were lucky enough to be invited for a weekend at Daisy Bank Camp, a peaceful, unplugged retreat in the heart of Calderdale. We stayed in one of their stable cabins and…

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A Week in the Brecon Beacons, Part Two

This post is a follow on from last week’s blog about our first few days in the Brecon Beacons at the start of July – so if you missed that, make sure to go and…

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A Week in the Brecon Beacons, Part One

It’s been about 5 years since our last trip to the Brecon Beacons, when we had rather a lot of rain and hiking opportunities were mostly limited to forest walks or quick dashes up a…

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Crook Hall Gardens

We’ve been National Trust members for quite a few years now, and had gotten around all of our local places within a year or two of becoming members. We’d kept the membership up though as…

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Yorke’s Folly and Guisecliff Wood

Back on the early May bank holiday weekend, I finally caved and conceded that bank holidays are just not a great time for a weekend away. Yes, you get an extra day off work without…

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Plodda Falls

Back in April during our trip to the West Highlands, we did a day trip up to Inverness-shire to explore some of its woodland walks. It’s one of those places that we’ve driven through a…

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