DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Gavin Bl said:
That is truely fantastic not for teh stones as they are nowt special but the panoramic views and fucking wicked.
Lake District
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That is truely fantastic not for teh stones as they are nowt special but the panoramic views and fucking wicked.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
the old man of coniston is a pretty good walk too.
Billy Hunt
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Google Earth has some fantastic detail of The Lake District 
Top Dog
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Had a week near keswick last year - was brill. Are you thinking of hillwalking???kea said:bump!
Photo and i have just booked a self-catering place in keswick for a week in september - can't wait!!!
This time me and 18 others
are getting a couple of cottages in ambleside for week in september i wonder how many will come back?!
yeah we'll be hillwalking 
not sure if we'll try skiddaw tho - might stick to stuff like catbells 
really looking forward to seeing castlerigg again. hope the weather perks up, it's been shit all summer. but i have a theory that it's gonna be a hot autumn so fingers x'd!
edit: we did a week further south, near coniston, in april, it was great ambleside is rather tea-shoppy but nice. there's a great shop doing homemade chutneys and other yummy things, well worth a visit!
(oh and check the smallest house in the world )
not sure if we'll try skiddaw tho - might stick to stuff like catbells really looking forward to seeing castlerigg again. hope the weather perks up, it's been shit all summer. but i have a theory that it's gonna be a hot autumn so fingers x'd!
edit: we did a week further south, near coniston, in april, it was great
ambleside is rather tea-shoppy but nice. there's a great shop doing homemade chutneys and other yummy things, well worth a visit!(oh and check the smallest house in the world
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Top Dog
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oh youve GOT to try skiddaw... and skafell pike if youre brave!... catbells is barely an incline!kea said:yeah we'll be hillwalking
And go check out the world's only pencil museum in keswick!Hippy!kea said:
but it WAS nice spending a day at the stones
Hmmm, yes was wondering what ambleside might be like... never been down that way before... but i dont think those going with us will be veering away too far from cream teas and scones... lard arses the lot of themkea said:edit: we did a week further south, near coniston, in april, it was great
(oh and check the smallest house in the world)
if you go to coniston, try the bluebird bitter at the black bull; so nice that Photo now orders it online by the crate!
http://www.conistonbrewery.com/
http://www.conistonbrewery.com/
oh and i'm sure Photo would want me to mention that there's a very good butchers in ambleside, if you're self-catering and not veggie - can't remember the name but it's on compston st, i think - map here -
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse....ble=&ovtype=&zm=0&scale=10000&up.x=285&up.y=4
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse....ble=&ovtype=&zm=0&scale=10000&up.x=285&up.y=4
Phototropic
Active Member
Yeah they proper tasty pies
Phototropic
Active Member
Top Dog said:down with your carnivorous ways
<fills slingshot with dried chickpeas>
Oooo no the tofu man is angry with me.
Top Dog
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i aint sayin nuffin...kea said:what are you inferring about the relationship between butchers and Photo?!
...but id ask yourself how he acquires all that expensive lean, prime quality beef fillet that he brings home in a carrier bag.
<Taps nose and winks
>nuff said...
belboid
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cheapest way will be by coach unfortunately, tho you can probably gt a reasonable price train ticket. About £50 I think, if booked sufficiently in advance.reNnIe said:
It's pretty easy to get to some decent places by foot & public transport, does depend on how much waling you want to do and how difficult, of course. Cats Bells is a decent stroll, you just get a boat across the lake thing, which is quite nice in itself. Castlerigg's an easy walk too, n well worth it (I've probably mentioned it already in the thread)
belboid
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penrith is on the very edge of the lakes (outside the national park even I think) & isn't the best spot for 'doing' the lakes from, but it is still pretty nice. A good castle, and a fair bit of really old stuff still around, from when it was the Capital of Scottish Cumbria.
As for walking, you're actually closer to the Eden Valley in Penrith, which is quite nice, not as hard as the lakes. And I'd be fairly sure there must be some good lakes walks nearby too, but can't remember doing any from there.
As for walking, you're actually closer to the Eden Valley in Penrith, which is quite nice, not as hard as the lakes. And I'd be fairly sure there must be some good lakes walks nearby too, but can't remember doing any from there.
Top Dog
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keswick will be brill
check well in advance about rail works if youre travelling at the weekend tho... we came unstuck trying to book this and so 18 of us then ended up having to make all sorts of different arrangements to get there
And getting to stansted (on the train) will probably cost you as much as the flight itself! You can get coaches from Liverpool street up there too
check well in advance about rail works if youre travelling at the weekend tho... we came unstuck trying to book this and so 18 of us then ended up having to make all sorts of different arrangements to get there
And getting to stansted (on the train) will probably cost you as much as the flight itself! You can get coaches from Liverpool street up there too
