George Hotel Penrith
Devonshire Street Penrith, Lake District, Cumbria, England, CA11 7SU, United Kingdom
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Lost in Scotland
... border into Scotland and ended up in Newcastleton, a little border town. It was full of stone buildings and we stopped at a little pub called the Vines..................yummmmmmmm.
The food was beautiful, I had the smoothest tastiest pate with oat bread and Will polished off a bowl of Lentil and bacon soup that was to die for. We both then had the roast which again was cooked really well and presented beautifully......was a very nice surprise.
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Nick's place
I had wanted to put a plaque or something near to the trees at Cockshott point but the National Trust no longer allow this. Therefore I instead obtained permission from them to place a geocache close by and despite a slight oversignt by me (in that the location I had chosen was slightly too near to another cache - and breaks the rules slightly) ...
If at first you don't succeed...
... and workers. Many of the houses are still occupied in the village either by locals or as holiday homes.
A particular set of 10 houses were built in Glencoyne some time before 1858 at a place called Seldom Seen and you can understand why they called them this when standing on the path looking out across the valley. In fact I had a much better look from the rear side on the way back down later in the day when descending on another pathway.
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Glenridding Dodd but no Sheffield Pike this time
... back today (Sunday), so we made the most of the extra hour before dropping Cat off at the station and knocked off a couple of caches before taking a short trip down to Bowness on Windermere to check that Nick's memorial trees were still in tact and hunt out a possible site for me to place my own geocache in his memory, subject to National Trust permission that I am currently trying to obtain.
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The Lake District!
... then you missed the trip since there would be no other transportation provided!
I thought i was going to be ok... i had worked out a plan on tfl.gov.uk and figured out what i needed to do in order to get there. I was going to catch the tube from westminster and take the circle line straight to the Notting Hill Gate tube station, which was only supposed to take about 20 minutes! However, this plan did not turn out to be as easy as i thought:
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