Union Tavern Kendal

159 Stricklandgate Kendal, Lake District, Cumbria, England, LA9 4RF, United Kingdom

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Nick's place

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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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...

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... 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

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... we had ascended Glenridding Dodd we were faced with heavier rain and cold winds which made the initial climb, which is reasonably steep, quite hard - particularly as I had just munched my way through a rather large slice of caramel shortbread and was wearing one too many layers and overheating!

At the top the wind became pretty strong, although we managed to get ourselves to the summit and ...

The Lake District!

A travel blog entry by jfinn

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... long, and into a spare room in the same hostel.

When we got up to Keswick, and to our hostel: the Borrowdale Youth Hostel, it was about 6 oclock in the evening...we ate some dinner that the hostel provided, which surprisingly was pretty good, and then we headed to the program's ( which was called GlaraMara by the way) headquarters for a pub-quiz. My team was named "quiz on your face' ( clever i know) and it was basically pams friends from ...

New Yorkshire, I Love You

A travel blog entry by rachelkw

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... him. We patted the Trig Point, in a proprietorial way, and stared out over the plain to the west. Graham and Roland wanted to go down the eastern side to look at glacial erratic boulders, but I wanted to go west towards Ingleton.

We waved them off and followed the highway down the hill. It seemed to take forever to get to the tree-line and a magical looking farm, surrounded by a corral of dry-stone walling. The track became vehicle ...