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kea said:
yeah but if you get the bus to keswick you're in a pretty good position. if you stay in keswick, there are buses to grasmere and buttermere so you can walk round there as well as derwentwater.

4 days to go - excited!!!!! :cool:
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damn right!

Grasmere is so damned cool and groovy it should be illegal
 
kea said:
yeah but if you get the bus to keswick you're in a pretty good position. if you stay in keswick, there are buses to grasmere and buttermere so you can walk round there as well as derwentwater.

4 days to go - excited!!!!! :cool:
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theres even an open top bus (but i think they have the sense not to run them in the middle of november)


4 days! :cool: 6 days and counting til ambleside for me.


<gets surfboard and flipflops out of cupboard> ;)
 
seven quid??!! seven quid????!!!!!!

We bought some when we went a month ago (I assume we are talking about 'Sarah Nelson's Gingerbread Shop' here), and bought several chunks - some of which we forgopt all about until last week!

And it was still gorgeous.

Propper ginger bread and fentimans ginger beer, yummy!
 
My parents live in Newbiggin-on-Lune which is a tiny hamlet between Kendal and Kirkby Stephen.......I'll be there in 2 weeks. :)

There's a massive difference between the Eden Valley and the Lake District - Eden Valley towns (Kirkby Stephen, Appleby, Penrith etc.) are like Royston Vasey compared to the much more cosmopolitan and easygoing Lake tourist towns like Keswick and Windemere......
 
belboid said:
I assume we are talking about 'Sarah Nelson's Gingerbread Shop' here
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oh yes.
Photo hadn't been before - we took him there when we were up staying near coniston in april and he looked like all his christmases had come at once :D
i think we're going to have to plan a day's walking around the grasmere bus just so that he can go stock up on as much gingerbread as he can fit in his rucksack!!


edit: lyra, what a shame we're not going up a week later, then we coulda met you for a pint!!
 
incidentally, while we're at it, anyone got any recommendations for keswick pubs and particular types of ale worth a try? not for me so much as for Photo - he loves discovering new beers, bless him :D
 
Twa Dogs Inn is good, and the Queens Head is alright. Yates Brewery is local, but I cant honestly remember much about the beer itself.
 
reNnIe said:
but we'll be leaving london at 7pm on a friday to return monday... giving not much time to get anywhere. :(
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you could get a taxi from penrith to keswick? book it to meet the london train. i thinkit's about £20 but if there are a few of you it'll divide up nicely.

belboid - cheers, will make a note of those.
 
kea said:
lyra, what a shame we're not going up a week later, then we coulda met you for a pint!!
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I know! Especially as I'll actually have the wonderful resource of grandparent-babysitters. :)
 
kea said:
i take it you didn't see my thread in the transport forum then?! :mad:
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doh :o no. Sorrrrrrry!

If its any consolation we got caught out too... now our trip involves 3 vehicles in various states of road worthiness, and a several people coming and going on different days because the west coast mainline is sheeeeiiitte

What way of getting up did you settle on?
 
belboid said:
League of Gentlemen village - sounds a bit unfair for Penrith, but completely accurate for the dump that is Kirkby Stephen
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Yes, Penrith isn't that bad until you scratch the surface, but in terms of Twilight Zone-ness Appleby beats Kirkby Stephen hands down. It may be prettier, but the locals are terrifying (I think I can say that cos me mam was born there - escaped to London when she was 16). :D
 
Top Dog said:
What way of getting up did you settle on?
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sucks dunnit :mad: fucking bastards :mad:

we're going london->leeds, then leeds->langwathby on the train, then taxi from langwathby.
on the way back, we're going to get the bus to penrith then a taxi to langwathby, then train to leeds, and stay with my sister overnight and get a lift back down south the following day from my parents, who are coincidentally visiting my sister that weekend.
 
kea said:
sucks dunnit :mad: fucking bastards :mad:

we're going london->leeds, then leeds->langwathby on the train, then taxi from langwathby.
on the way back, we're going to get the bus to penrith then a taxi to langwathby, then train to leeds, and stay with my sister overnight and get a lift back down south the following day from my parents, who are coincidentally visiting my sister that weekend.
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good grief... :eek:

have you booked another holiday to recover from that?!

Minibuses r us
 
i know, tis rather crap. not nearly as crap as i thought it was going to be for a while tho, the national rail website was telling me to go via newcastle and carlisle!! :rolleyes:
we were going to go visit my sister anyway, as her computer needs sorting out and Photo's the man for the job. so it makes sense to go via her place on the way back.

and we might treat ourselves and get a taxi straight from keswick to langwathby on the way back, depending how rich we feel.

the way there isn't tooooo bad, we'll be there by 3. not nearly as nice as just getting on the train in london and off in penrith but i'm trying not to think about that!
 
could be worse - even from Sheffield, and with all the trains running we needed to change twice and get a bus!

If it were too easy, everyone would be there and it wouldn't be as nice anyway :)
 
belboid said:
If it were too easy, everyone would be there and it wouldn't be as nice anyway :)
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i'll tell myself that on saturday when our train out of london is delayed and messes up our connections :D :rolleyes: ;)
 
belboid said:
could be worse - even from Sheffield, and with all the trains running we needed to change twice and get a bus!

If it were too easy, everyone would be there and it wouldn't be as nice anyway :)
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i know. My friend and her two kids are part of our group and they're coming from sheffield... its gonna be a right mare to get them and their stuff up to ambleside :mad:
 
Kea, I heartily reccomend going up to the stone cirlce a short distance away.

It's called Castlerigg and has amazing panaoramic views.

I've spent a few very happy sunsets there.

Call me a hippy if you will but I find the place absolutely spellbinding.

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was that a Q for me? nope... i don't like driving in this country (wrong side n all that and the Mr doesn't have a license).
 
DoUsAFavour said:
Kea, I heartily reccomend going up to the stone cirlce a short distance away.
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yes i know, i've been a few times :)
(i spent a lot of time in the lake district as a child ... i can still remember the soggy cottage cheese and cucumber sarnies
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last time i was there (castlerigg i mean) was in april, when it was ruddy freezing :eek:
i'm definitely looking forward to going back! might even try to catch sunrise or sunset there, since we'll be staying so near.
incidentally, i have a castlerigg pic as my background on my work PC!
 
DoUsAFavour said:
Kea, I heartily reccomend going up to the stone cirlce a short distance away.

It's called Castlerigg and has amazing panaoramic views.
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good man - nice to see someone backing up the recomendation I must have made three times on his thread already :) :p

(it's best at around sunrise, the light on the hills around the stones is just utterly utterly awesome)

& you don't need a car to get out to loads of good walks, loads can be done really easy by foot/public transport. Obviously it gives you more leeway, with times and everything, but its still well doable.
 
So looking forward to seeing the Lake District again. been there twice now (that I can rememeber).

Kea I got the train tickets. All ten of them :D
 
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