Monthly Archives: October 2007

Kings college…..

ร‚ย Kings college taken from the new lions yard car park, taken on my camera and up loaded to blog using Shozu……. took me hours to set it up and now I am not sure if I like the the programme ๐Ÿ™‚

Another Guided walk…

While in the Lake District we met up with Paddy Dillon , the writer of over forty walking guidebooks, including the GR20 one we used while out in Corsica.misc_102107_006

He gave us a guided walk around his home town and pointed out where the Cumbria way starts, this is a 70 mile long distance walk from Ulverston to Carlisle.

According to Paddy most walkers have trouble finding the starting point and walk past his house a few times until he points them in the right direction.

We spent hours chatting, while taking a look at most of his guidebooks including his new one, The National trails of England Scotland and Wales.

This book is too big too use as an actual guidebook but is a must for any keen walkers book shelf. paddy

It was interesting to learn that Paddy takes all his own photos for his guidebooks, and kit weight before adding any walking stuff is 3kg.

He spends 5 to 6 months a year walking and the rest writing up the Guidebooks.

A very interesting few hours spent with a very interesting man….

Up the Old man…

Sunday saw us setting of for Coniston.

Where we walked up to the Old man of Coniston then on to Dow crag, and Brown pike before coming back down along Walna Scar Road.

It was another misty day at the top so no good views although it did clear for a few seconds every now and again just to tease us….

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So a great week-end away and three fantastic walks……