Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
What’s wrong with this?
What’s wrong with this picture? I know it’s not a massive time difference, but it is another indictment of Virgin Trains!
The great Virgin Trains Rip-off ?
Should Richard Branson be such a revered figure of British industry? Well, if you consider being able to formulate a business plan that charges more for catching a train from Carlisle to London than flying from Manchester to New York a shrewd business model, yes, I suppose he should. If however, like me, you consider …
Chee Dale
Saturday’s brilliant weather was wasted on me this weekend – I had a guidebook related meeting to attend. A shame from a climbing point of view, but a good productive session, so it should be good for the CC’s guidebooks in years to come. However, it was an excellent opportunity to visit Paul and get …
A dry August: who’d ‘av thunk it!
The British summer: in August it rained 25 out 31 days here in the South Lakes. For those a bit slower at the maths, that’s only 6 days without rain or 19% of the month. So it was wet right? No…
Foredale Quarry
Blencathra
A Brief Glimpse…
This afternoon the garden saw a brief glimpse of summer! Just four days left in August, and after what seems like weeks of back-to-back rain storms, the sun came out!
BASE?
A colleague at work mentioned this today ... you ever considered (or done any) BASE jumping?




