Our first full day at Hawse End and the obvious walk to do was the one from the front door. The route up Cat Bells is one of the best and most popular walks in the Lake District, boasting panoramic views over Derwent Water, Borrowdale, Newlands Valley and the surrounding …

Well, it sometimes seems like it will never stop raining. According to the Met Office southern England saw the wettest February since their records began in 1836. Of course, we didn’t know all this when we booked our March trip to Cholderton on Salisbury Plain.

So, Salisbury Plain is …

A Most Agreeable Jaunt to Stratford-upon-Avon

Hark, fellow wayfarers! Lend me your ears as I recount a most delightful sojourn I recently embarked upon with dear friends to the fair town of Stratford-upon-Avon. This merry pilgrimage was undertaken in honor of two grand occasions: the sexagenarian milestone of our esteemed …

If the museum was telling the truth, Cheddar Man was a mesolithic hunter-gatherer who was laid to rest in Gough’s Cave, Cheddar, about 10,000 years ago. This would have been just as we were coming out of the last ice age. The weather for the recent CYHA trip …

Our illustrious Treasurer finally turned 60 this October, but not wanting to crowd the CYHA programme, he elected to postpone the celebrations to November and booked Holmbury St Mary YH for the party of the decade.

Located in the Surrey Hills, or, judging by the poor phone signal, one of …

Many years ago I came across the Isles of Scilly (albeit indirectly), in Rick Wakeman’s album ‘Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’, which I bought during my pilgrimage into prog rock in 1979. This featured the land of Lyonesse in one of …

August Bank Holiday and a sunny forecast! If only we’d thought to hire a secluded hostel at the far end of the Edale Valley. Oh! But we did! Thank you Nigel for booking the Dalehead Bunkhouse.

It was advisable to arrive in daylight as the bunkhouse was a long …

Our August weekend trip was to Darsham in Suffolk, staying in the old railway station. It was planned to have a mixture of cycling, walking and canoeing, but the weather had other ideas. The cold, dreary weather of July threatened to follow us into August.

The forecast for Saturday was …

Well, there’s absolutely no need to rush a good thing, and I don’t think we can be accused of rushing our completion of the Thames Path.

It all started with a trip to the Thames Barrier in 2007, but it was a few years before we attempted the …

We arrived at Alnmouth in Northumberland at 3pm on the Friday, and John picked up a message from Steve that he was at Durham services and would arrive in around an hour. So John sat on the platform seat. I went to look for a suitable place to see him …