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Ash Cottage Hotel Grasmere

Red Lion Square Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria, England, LA22 9SP, United Kingdom

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Lost in Scotland

A travel blog entry by jenisonajourney

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Driving from Newcastle to Carlisle we were suppose to pick up the old Roman wall road but instead ended up heading towards Kielder Forest, it was a beautiful drive down narrow roads, lots of big green hills and little rivers. Kielder Lake is beautiful, like a big manmade loch that just appears suddenly, we could imagine that in Winter the whole area would be left alone to sleep the winter away.


After feeling as isolated as you can get in the UK we ...

Nick's place

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... reviewer at Geocaching.com was kind enough to grant permission for me to go ahead with this.

On Saturday I set off early to avoid the crowds (it turned out the place was deserted!) and placed the geocache container as planned. It was a beautiful and quiet morning and so I took a short walk over to the ferry port, where I recall I ...

If at first you don't succeed...

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... by the same name... extremely confusing and a little upsetting as this turned out to be a 1 peak climb once again! However the views across to Ullwater were well worth giving up an additional summit for as despite some mist it was reasonably clear and from left to right it was possible to see the full immensity of the 9 mile (approx) length. As the second largest lake in the Lake District, this is pretty impressive, although my photo's don't really do it ...

Glenridding Dodd but no Sheffield Pike this time

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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It seems my recent visits to the Lakes come coupled with significant delays in traffic on the way up there and this weekend was no different... in addition the traffic on the way back wasn't great either.

My Aunt/Uncle were very kind to lend us their holiday let which is located in Kings Meaburn, a tiny village about 15 minutes in the car from Penrith. The cottage is beautiful... seems to be a ...

The Lake District!

A travel blog entry by jfinn

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... journey home.

Overall, I am so SO so happy i went on the trip this weekend, because it really was something i will never get to do again... i can't even describe into words how amazing those activities were, and i know this post isn't doing it justice!

Tonight i cant wait to go to sleep in my own bed. Now i can check sleeping in hostel off my bucket list. Just one more week until Paris, really excited to see katie!


xx

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