Pinegrove Hotel Carlisle
262 London Road Carlisle, Cumbria, England, CA1 2QS, United Kingdom
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Lost in Scotland
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 ...
If at first you don't succeed...
... was fine (for a change) and the ascent up across Glencoyne Beck was much easier than the route attempted last time (from Glenridding). With my new iphone app I was able to take a couple of GPS readings/waypoints along the route as a fallback for dealing with the return journey in case we got lost. The AW book states that Sheffield Pike should not be ascended in mist so I wanted to prepare for any change in the weather :).
As we approached Nick's ...
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 Jardine Story of Spedlins Tower
... bible was sent to be rebound in Edinburgh in 1710, allowing the millers spirit to roam free and wreak havoc once again, until the bible was returned to its rightful place. Folklore to this day says that of you poke a stick into the dungeon of Spedlins Tower ...
The Lake District!
Another traveling lesson learned: always leave enough time to get to where you are going!
On Friday morning I left my dorm at 915 in the morning in order to catch a bus leaving from Notting Hill at 10. The IFSA-Butler program was taking us on our first group trip, a journey up to the Lake District, which is a major vacation destination for the British! The buses, according the email, were leaving at 10 oclock in the morning sharp, and if you ...



