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…
I met the lovely hostel keepers this morning—a charming couple who clearly understood that the way to a hiker’s heart is through their stomach. Their two little hostel dogs had mastered the art of looking pathetically adorable while you eat breakfast, hoping for scraps. After a proper cooked breakfast (the last warm, dry thing I’d…
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 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 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….
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…
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 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…
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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…