Coast to Coast UK walk

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…

I had really friendly service at Mardale Inn yesterday, and a very comfortable night. Breakfast also was very nicely done with a selection of cereal and fruit to help yourself too plus cooked breakfast. Not so friendly this morning though. Polite, but not like last night. Anyway big surprise my dreams had come true, it…

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…

I slept soundly, and although not totally hungry due to my fish and chips dinner, I did have a hearty full English breakfast and some grapefruit and some toast with local home made jams and marmalades. Delicious! There was a couple staying there also doing the c2c, and I saw them several times during the…

I had a route plotted from Greenbank farm where I’m staying up the ridge via Hartsop and Hayes water. But I read the bridge is out there and OS maps app shows impassable due to flooding. So I am walking with my umbrella back up the road to Patterdale and taking the trail from there….