High Road to Higham
With spring on the way: the lanes bedecked with nodding daffodils, forget-me-nots, and grape hyacinths, a clear blue sky, a stiff March...
With spring on the way: the lanes bedecked with nodding daffodils, forget-me-nots, and grape hyacinths, a clear blue sky, a stiff March...
Into March, and we set out for an impromptu visit to Richmondshire in North Yorkshire. The weather chilly but dry and the forecast good,...
March mud. After a long wet February, it feels like an age since the paths were dry enough to walk without the suck and squelch of mud....
Let's face it; when you are planning a walking trip to the Yorkshire Dales, you have plenty of choice, and in the absence of any other...
I have read about Bolton-by-Bowland several times in magazine articles, but until now have never visited. First recorded in the Domesday...
Such a delight to get out and about after a week of rain and gales - two storms back-to-back keeping us more or less by the fireside. But...
We headed up to the Dales on a dry cold January day, after seeing this walk showcased online. It promised views of Ingleborough and...
A dry spell following weeks of rain always makes me reach for my boots, and today is no different. So after a wet and muddy walk...
What sort of a year was 2023? And, with all the ups and downs in a year, how do you begin to categorise it as a good or bad year? Is...
The default weather forecast in Sabden, from September to May, seems to be rain. Disheartening if you actually believe it, but I have...
Yesterday, full of optimism, we walked the high valley path from Parsley Barn to Whalley, setting off under a blue sky that was soon...
Bermuda, one of Britain's oversea sovereign states, is an archipelago of 181 island's covering just 54 square kilometers. The most...
Pendle Hill. An iconic landmark carved out by nature. Formed by glaciers almost 300 million years ago. Notorious for the legend of the...
Having walked for the last few days, we opted to drive into Whalley, only about three miles away, to have a proper look around. We have...
With the promise of a 'dry' late summer bank holiday, we set off to seek out some of the magical places of the North Yorkshire Dales....
This has got to be one of the best titles for a walk ever; it sounds more like the title of a Secret Seven adventure story than an...
I think I alluded to the poor summer weather in my previous post - wall to wall rain for the whole of July! Well August has given us some...
2023 has been one of the wettest summers I remember, and as such has not been the greatest weather for enjoying walking. I like to think...
If spring in the Ribble Valley was a riot of colour, summer seems to bring an astonishing palette displaying every imaginable shade of...
Packing up camp can be pretty fraught, believe me. Sleeping bags never roll up small enough to get back into their teeny weeny bags, you...