Activities

The Arts & Crafts Movement at Blackwell

Do you ever even think of a building in relation to the Arts & Crafts Movement? Take a visit to Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, and you will start to see all the little details in a building differently. A great place to visit if you are looking for...

A Day in the Lake District : Sunday Rituals

What are Sunday Rituals? Do people still have routines these days that are the same, week in, week out? We discovered what a few of them may be on our recent walk amongst the hills of Troutbeck in the Lake District. A campervan already sits by the river in the carpark...

A Day in the Lake District : Quiet Mornings

The road winds along, free of the usual traffic and Lake Windermere comes in to view. Always my favourite stretch of this particular road, where I get my first glimpse to see if the water is rippling with waves and wind, or so still that it looks like a sheet of glass...

What you can do on the Lakes

With so many people embracing the outdoors and the UK National Parks, we are often asked, what can you do on the lakes. It would be easy to assume, with the increased interest in open water, that you can just dive in to any lake in the Lake District, or launch your...

We stepped Into the Outside for Adventure

Since moving to Cumbria we have been trying our hand at more and more adventure activities and recently we stepped Into the Outside for adventure with the awesome team that are Becki and Dan of Into The Outside. It all started with a question on Instagram about being...

Embracing the Outdoors

Living in Cumbria we acknowledged very quickly that you have to learn to love all the seasons and be about embracing the outdoors in all weathers. We all know how much the outdoors and natural world has come to mean to us this year and now, as the seasons change and...