Breathless Hikers

It’s been a while since I’ve done a decent walk.  The last few weeks have been rather boozy with all the birthday celebrations.  We dusted off our walking boots and decided to do the next section of the Welcome Way.  It was like a tour of the English countryside to…

Zara and I both woke up to the noisiest Cuckoo bird that wanted to announce to the whole valley he was there. We decided to have a slow morning as we ate breakfast and packed away our tent.  Today was our last day of walking and we had a short…

We woke up at the Kettlewell youth hostel feeling rested after a great night’s sleep. They fed us an amazing English breakfast and then we packed up and set off on our days walk which was 11 miles to Nethergill Farm just outside Oughtershaw. Not long into our walk we…

We woke up to rain, oh so very much rain.  It started about 2 in the morning and was very heavy.  I think if it had just been the rain it would have been ok, but there was wind as well.  I’d not clipped the storm tensioners on the tent…

Zara and I decided a little while ago that we would walk the Dales Way.   This was when the weather was beautiful and walking through the dales had me imagining I was Julia Andrews running through the hills.  Queue reality and we were up early to catch the train to…