A Day in the Lake District : In search of Landscape Art

So on my vision board wish list last year and this year has been an image of a circular stone sculpture, a piece of landscape art, that is one of many out there in the Lake District, now termed, the ‘Borrowdale Banksy’. The weather forecast predicted...

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 Buttermere Wainwright

With a total of 214 Wainwrights, we decided to tick off a Buttermere Wainwright over the New Year period. It wasn’t the first Wainwright we have walked, but we have a long way to go to be able to say we have achieved all 214 of these walks. Starting from...

A Walk to Stickle Tarn

Starting from Millbeck in Great Langdale, the walk to Stickle Tarn is really worth the effort even if only for the views. They are stunning. Climbing the stones steps along the pathway carved into the dramatic slopes of the landscape, you ascend to the height of 470m...