Coast to Coast UK walk

We were quite successful at drying a lot of our stuff from yesterday’s adventure, so by morning with dry socks and relatively dry boots, and filled with an again not so restrained breakfast of berries and granola and scrambled egg on toast with grilled tomato and mushrooms, I bid farewell to Helen and John. They…

Another good night’s sleep, and another full English breakfast! What with my big breakfast yesterday and my cafe stop at the end I hadn’t eaten my pack lunch yesterday, will eat it today, and maybe not have a full breakfast every day 😄.  I chatted with a few other c2c’ers, Tom that Margaret the couple…

A nice comfortable sleep at Yew Tree farm and breakfast in the lovely dining room. I had resisted a little, getting poached eggs, tomato and mushrooms rather than the full English… But they also had grapefruit segments and a nice muesli and local jams and marmalades for the toast…. So I didn’t actually eat less….

I lucked out and got a ride from South Wales where I was visiting family to St Bees with my niece and family who were travelling up to the lake District that weekend. We arrived early afternoon and their dog and my great-niece had fun playing on the stones and beach. It was a little…

I woke up to the sun shining through my window! At 3 degrees, not exactly balmy, though the promise of 10 degrees later felt tropical by comparison. Although my bed had a few lumps and bumps I’d managed a decent night’s sleep, and breakfast was the usual carb-loading extravaganza—no artisanal homemade breads or precious jams…

After a blissful night at the George Hotel in Orton, I awoke to discover that the weather gods had apparently decided to practice their water-bombing skills, again. My pack cover had made a dramatic exit two days prior (probably eloped with a particularly charming gust of wind), so today’s fashion statement involved a fetching black…