Travel Blogs from Hope, United Kingdom
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Cycle Day One
Today was it! Starting out on our cycling adventure. Brian felt like Bilbo Baggins setting out into the great unknown. This moving into places never seen or experienced without anyone to guide is a great feeling! Setting out this ...
Castleton amoung the Peaks
... remains now. Nevertheless, it made a beautiful picnic lunch spot with sweeping views of the town of Castleton and the Hope valley before he fog rolled in. After lunch a quiet little stroll through cobbled streets with rose covered cottages ...
Trekking the Edale Skyline - (Sheffield UK).
Took a quick trip up north to Sheffield, then a local train trip to Hope. Walked from Hope up to the peaks, back down to the valleys and up again along the Edale Ridge before returning back to Edale township. And yes, the heavens did open up and pour ...
Winter wonderland
Just a few photos from our rather cold trip to the Peak District, which was a winter wonderland of snow. When the sunlight caught the right angle of the snow on the ground and on the trees it sparkled like tiny diamonds, so beautiful. Ate some ...
Hope
we arrived in hope today at 8:30am tired after our 15hour flight but excited to be here. we got picked up from Manchester airport by jaydines family. we feel very welcomed into their home. we have had a walk around the town and saw where jaydines aunty ...
Contrasts-bone chilling winds and excellent dinner
... looked out of place in any Italian Church. By the early evening, in bitingly cold winds, we visited St. Margarets Hope, a tiny harbour, sporting the most famous restaurant in the Orkneys, The Creel. The food was exceptionally sumptuous and ...
Day 71 - Friends around, frustration fades
... five weeks time. Cream teas are quickly consumed, farewell hugs are exchanged and we find ourselves lazing back at Hope, soaking up our final afternoon of relaxation. Once again we dine royally with Matt and Susie before retiring to ...
Day 69 - A simple jaunt to a piece of paradise
... days of the PW. Never mind, we must be thankful for small mercies. We have declined the option of taking a footpath to Hope on the basis it went up and over a very steep hill. Today we are on easy street and literally follow a ...
Day 70 - Di leaves Matt & Susie arrive-no computer
... rain when you're not in it. Late in the afternoon, new arrivals join us for the next couple of days here at Hope. Matt and Susie and the bump stroll in seemingly oblivious to the rain storm that has engulfed them walking from the car to the ...
from archeology to 'dress up' in less than 12 hrs
we stayed two nights at the hostel in St Margarets Hope... first nite was a BBQ, a few drinks and then off to the pub next door for some pool and partying with the locals... what a great bunch of people... a little later a few of our group went ...
Our Route
Keith & Johns John O Groats to Lands End Route 22nd July Thursday - Leave from Stanford-Le-hope to Euston before taking the overnight Caledonian sleeper train to Inverness 23rd July Friday - Arrive in Inverness and then take the train to Wick another ...
Rain Over Castleton
The U.K. Has been experiencing record amounts of rainfall this month, as these rain showers over Castleton will ...
Hope Cove
Hope Cove is a dream of a place. We arrived about 3 pm and paddled ashore, staying for a few ...
Accommodation Contact Details Day to Day
Day 1 ( 24/7 ) - Blar Mhor B&B, Golspie, KW10 6SY. Tel : 01408 633609 Day 2 ( 25/7 ) - Tramps B&B, Balmacaan Road, Drumnadrochit Tel :01456 450499 Day 3 (26/7 ) - An Darag, Upper Carnoch, Glencoe. PH49 ...
We Are Home !!!!!
Well we are home and safe. The evening after we arrived back into Lands End become some what of a blur as we had far to much to drink ( Graham would keep buying us beers and it would have been rude not to accept !! ). So as you can imagine in the morning ...
Chatsworth House
This is the ancestral home of the Duke of Devonshire, built by the first Duke back in the 17th century, with much tinkering along the way, and now home to the 12th Duke and his ...
Kings rangers
... : Back in 1992 my grand mother tripped around Europe. As part of her trip she traced our family's history/ancestory back to the Hope Valley in Derbyshire. Part of the great fun of travel is that you meet people and develop friendships in the strangest of ...
Highlands to The Orkneys
... was originally settled by Scandinavia, it is a strange feeling to be at the top of the world. We came back to St Margaret’s Hope via the small town of Twatt that’s right there is a town called Twatt and I have the pics to prove it! ...
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