Lane Head House Kendal
Helsington Kendal, Lake District, Cumbria, England, LA9 5RJ, United Kingdom
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Nick's place
... 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...
... 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!
... and some of her friends from Wake Forest that I had met the first week that I was here. -- ( it was weird seeing people that i met during my first couple of days in London but haven't seen in over a month! ) -- and our team DOMINATED, and ended up winning and taking home the trophy ( see picture), basically we were awesome and the night was a lot of fun!
We went to sleep relatively early that night though because the strenuous activities ...
New Yorkshire, I Love You
... a room all to ourselves, without anyone snoring except me. I croaked a sad, sore-throated greeting at Mel, who raced off to locate the Strepsils.
By the time we'd packed the car, the blokes - Sherpa, John, Roland and Graham - had all gone off for the day. Mel and I set off, out into the sunshine. We spent a few minutes in the corner shop in Clapham, not because we wanted anything particularly, but because it is not often you pass a shop ...


