Byland Abbey
This year, we said we’d like to explore more of our local walks and historic sites, rather than dashing off on day trips to the Lakes all the time. Mostly we’ve successfully stuck to this,…
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Ness Glen and Loch Doon
During our stay in Galloway, we took advantage of the area’s border with Ayrshire to ‘sample’ a flavour of the outdoors in a part of Scotland totally new to us. Ayrshire is somewhere we’ve never…
View PostA Week in Galloway, Part Two
The second half of our week in Galloway was slightly more sedate than the first half, spent dodging showers and trying to keep cool in some pretty humid weather (although thankfully nowhere near the temperatures…
View PostA Week in Galloway, Part One
Ever since our trip to Summerhill Farm back in January, I’ve been desperately looking forward to our return to Dumfries and Galloway in mid-July. Just two nights in Galloway was enough to convince me that…
View PostThe Shepherd’s Round: Lordstones Country Park to the Wainstones
Back in May we started the Shepherd’s Round, a 64km circular alternative to the more popular Lyke Wake Walk. We’ve said for years that we need to take advantage of some of our local long…
View PostWillance’s Leap and Whitcliffe Scar
North Yorkshire missed out on the heatwave sweeping the rest of the country during the first week of July. We’d pop the TV on to watch a bit of Wimbledon, where you could practically feel…
View PostCotherstone to Romaldkirk along the Tees
Making good on our promise to ourselves to spend more time in the North Pennines, we recently managed to get back up to Teesdale for another walk in this most underrated of areas. With the…
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