Thank you Keswick, but I won't be back

[Fab Foodie]

Plus we will undoubtedly be spending loadsadosh in the local community....

pubs.....

 

[Arjimlad]

Lakeland Toys is still an Aladdin's Cave for my lot.

We very much enjoyed tasty fish & chips by the lake from the Keswickian on our last day on Good Friday.

Couldn't see that all that much had changed about the place, but we were only using it for a little bit of shopping.

7 yr old got up Skiddaw with -7 windchill at the top..

 

[hopless500]

What's the point of poles? Walking's hard enough for your legs. Why make your arms suffer too?

I have a single pole. It doesn't get out of the house much, but is very useful when my back decides to tell my legs to buckle if I'm daft enough to try and go for a walk.

 

[hopless500]

Plus we will undoubtedly be spending loadsadosh in the local community pub.

FTFY

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

I live close to Keswick and try to avoid it. I try to avoid most of the central lake district in peak holiday times, due to crap roads, too much traffic, cyclist riding 2 abreast on previously mentioned crap narrow roads , making it virtually impossible to pass, too many tourists, rip off prices etc.

The Western Lake District, which is on my doorstep is a lot less congested, and much more preferable to myself. Ennerdale is always really quiet, Wasdale/Wastwater is way quieter than Keswick etc, Eskdale is lovely, just lacking a lake, but I'm not bothered. Ambleside is my favourite town in the busier places.

Loweswater, and Crumock are also quieter, it starts getting hard work at Buttermere. The Kirkstile Inn at Loweswater is excellent for quality real ale.

I'd imagine the Southern Lake District is quiet too, well more so than Keswick. I haven't been for ages though, as its a bit of a trek for me.

 

[Fab Foodie]

7 yr old got up Skiddaw with -7 windchill at the top..

Have you been reported to the RSPCC?

 

[Arjimlad]

The Royal Society for the Promotion of Chilly Children?

That's the badger, we're expecting a cloth patch to commemorate it shortly !

 

[BoldonLad]

Have you been reported to the RSPCC?

Don’t want to pedantic, but, should that not be NSPCC? Children are not important enough to warrant an R

 

[Fab Foodie]

Don’t want to pedantic, but, should that not be NSPCC? Children are not important enough to warrant an R

Well spotted!

 

[NorthernDave]

I've always been distinctly underwhelmed by the Lake District and much prefer Northumberland...

Shhhh....we don't want all those tourists heading for Northumbria...

 

[slowmotion]

It depends on what you’re using them for. If you’re Nordic Walking, you’re getting a full body work out and increasing your pace. Twin poles are also useful if your trekking with a pack - both for balance on rough ground and for helping with posture.

A single stick (as opposed to a pole) is good for balance on muddy or uneven ground or, at the right time of year (and if the antler on the end has the right shape like mine has), for getting to the blackberries, sloes, etc. that would otherwise be out of reach.

Fair enough.
BTW, would your interest in sloes be faintly related to gin?

 

[slowmotion]

Dunno what you mean....

Ah. Entirely related to gin. Fess up.

 

[mybike]

One of the motorhomes could have been Foodie and Wimpers, they like a spot of Wild Camping .

Is a motorhome really wild camping?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is a motorhome really wild camping?

Wild glamping!

Fair point though. In motorhoming circles it is! ‘Off-grid’ is another term. However, depending where you park it can certainly be described as wild in terms of location, weather, and nature. Everything is relative I guess.
Whether travelling by Brompton and sleeping under a tarp, or rolling-up in the MH at some remote beach or loch-side to me it’s all good. Not quite as remote as a lonely mountain top, but better than being in a hotel, B&B or campsite.

 

[stephec]

Is a motorhome really wild camping?

You don't know what they get up to.