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French Misadventures 2023

Sunday, 24th September 2023

Our summer jollies to the Alps this year had mixed results…

Pabbay

Monday, 12th June 2023

We’ve been looking forward to and fearing our trip to Pabbay, a remote and uninhabited tiny island off Scotland in the Bishop Isles, in varyingly different amounts for some time…

Easter with Laurence & Megan

Monday, 10th April 2023

Thankfully the long Easter weekend was blessed with a brilliant sunny forecast, perfect for our visiting nephew, Laurence, and his girlfriend, Megan, to see some of the best the Lake District has to offer…

From Alleppey to the coast and to Fort Kochin

Thursday, 1st December 2022

Leaving the luxurious house boat behind, we got back on the bikes and cycled a short 30km to the beach.

Leonidio – under new Covid-19 restrictions …

Tuesday, 14th December 2021

Back in September we got super excited at the prospect of our first foreign travel trip since the Covid pandemic brought travel to its knees, and we’d booked ourselves on our first post-lockdown trip abroad … to the Moroccan Anti-Atlas mountains in early December for 10 days of glorious trad climbing before Xmas. Then, with …

More awesome Bank Holiday weather

Tuesday, 29th May 2018

While the south of England is cloaked in fog and Birmingham suffers from flash flooding the north west is continuing to bask in glorious wall-to-wall sunshine!

Great North Swim 2016 and Ingleborough

Sunday, 12th June 2016

With no training and only a couple of quick dips in the water this year I made the crazy decision to enter the Great North Swim again.

Amazing Lakeland Bank Holiday Weather

Wednesday, 1st June 2016

The weather this past bank holiday has been amazing in the Lake District. In fact the whole of the North West has been enjoying a prolonged period of settled sunny weather. 😀 Especially nice that, in an unusual turn around of the normal way of things, the South East has been getting rained on. 😉

Coniston & Zac’s First Swim

Tuesday, 1st September 2015

After messing about in the water yesterday I wanted to go for a proper swim so we went to Coniston.