Author: tiripeter
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Ep. 6: The One Where Peter Took the High Road
05 June – Grasmere to Glenridding Today’s walk was from Grasmere to Patterdale over Grisedale Hause (narrow passage between hills). We left our quirky accommodation early with ham and cheese croissants wrapped in napkins for our lunch in an attempt to get our walk underway before the heat of the day. We walked past St…
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Ep 5: The One We Did By Bus
4 June Grasmere – rest day! Well. After a number of days of fell climbing we luxuriated in our first rest day. After a sumptuous breakfast (‘full English’) at How Foot Lodge (photo above) the expeditionary party split into two to cover more territory. Together, we boarded the wonderful Lake District double-decker bus with Val…
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Ep 4: The One With the Crazy Runners
Day 4: Rothswaite to Grasmere We were awoken by the dawn chorus of rooks – unfortunately dawn was at 4.30 am, which resulted in an earlier than anticipated start to the day. Sadly, breakfast was not until 8 o’clock. However, it was well worth waiting for and our hosts were amazing, just like Yew Craggs…
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Ep. 3: The One From Nowhere to Not Quite Somewhere
Day 3 YHA Black Sail to Rothswaite Waking up in the middle of tranquillity is wonderful – no vehicles, no noisy ravens at 4.30am, just the sound of occasional voices as people emerged from their rooms. What would today’s breakfast be like, we wondered – here, in the most “off-grid” place we’d be staying at?…
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Ep 2: The One in the Middle of Nowhere
Day 2 1 May: A long walk to the most peaceful place you have never heard of ! Breakfast done, our taxi returned to take us back to Cleator to start day 2 of our walk. The first stage was a reasonably steep climb of 350m to the top of Dent Hill, which provided outstanding…
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Episode 1: The One at Cross Porpoises
Day 1 31 May 2023St Bees to Cleator So the walk begins. A gloriously warm and sunny Cumbrian day (a bit of an oxymoron, we believe!) The Coast to Coast Walk has a few traditions, and two of them are at the start – picking up a pebble and carrying it the length of the…
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Planning, planning…
Arranging a 20-day walk doesn’t happen by chance – and it can’t be done last-minute. The four of us started the process back in October 2022, With two of us in New Zealand and two in Australia, that meant Zoom calls and frequent emails. Fortunately we could draw on Peter and Val’s experiences planning and…
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Saints To Outlaws
Coast to Coast in 2023with Peter, Val, Ad & Barbie Join us as we cross England from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire.
Saints to Outlaws 