Just thoughts …

Category: Trips

  • To Speyside for the whisky and a walk or two

    This trip was done in the autumn of 2011 in the company of my son. We planned to take-in a couple of walks in Speyside as well as visiting a few distilleries. We didn’t do too well on the former, but succeeded in the latter. The weather was rather wet and the only walks we managed were done in drizzle, low cloud, driving wind or a combination of the above!

    To Speyside and back to Lancashire at EveryTrail

    Two of the walks are shown below
    “The Dramble” at EveryTrail

    and Beside the Spey in the wet at EveryTrail
    , a third walk on a really unpleasant day up Cairngorm was abandoned because there was no fun in it at all, and to proceed any further would have been foolish – even the cable car wasn’t running!

    A secondary, and to me as important, outcome of the trip was that I was able to look up old university friends in Stirling, Lancaster and Scarisbrick. Great fun!

  • A trip to The Lake District with DeeJay & Penny

    A lovely week with David, Penny and the dogs in Dipper Cottage on Coniston Lake, with a stopover with John and Jane on the way up and babysitting for Gail and Martin on the way back. The weather was very kind to us and we managed several walks:

    Although we took #duettovan, we didn’t sleep in it; so the only trip it did was a trip to Furness and Barrow.

    An inter-active version of the trip is available here.

    One of the highlights of the trip was to see this little bird at the window of the cottage whilst we ate our breakfast.

    We reckon (after some advice from Paul) that it could have been trying to see off a rival – attacking it’s reflection in the window. Seems a good theory.

    Here are some pictures of the week – if you have Flash you will also see them below as a slideshow.