Cycling Around the Lake District: 15 Cycling Routes Around the Lake District - 18-37 Miles Long (Outdoor Leisure)
Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Scene of the crime: 217 New Scotland Avenue is located in a "relatively" nice area, down the street from Trustco bank, Stewarts, Mobil & Subway - with JERNY a couple of houses down then street. The "catch" - one of the nearby cross-streets is Lake Avenue, which has been the scene of several crimes, including a murder . Maybe the "Lake ave. riff-raff" is moving uptown...
TEAMASCENT www.teamascent.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Thankfully the bridge is still intact, but a few have been swept away. Huge floods are affecting the lake district and NW of Scotland with many roads still un-passable due to several feet of water from overflowing rivers and lakes. The "Team Ascent representative" (myself) who is at some stage hoping to appear at the "Kendal Mountain Film Festival" has so far not been unable to...
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It looks as though a rain bearing depression will deposit lots of water (up to 8 inches in extreme cases) on parts of Wales, Scotland and North-West England around Cumbria and the Lake District today and Friday. This will lead to some serious flooding it is predicted. Guess where I'm headed for the weekend - yes, the North-West! We won't be in the worst of it (hopefully) in Lancaster...and it's usually...
Emma Bradshaw (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
...especially when it gets cold, I start thinking about next years holidays, firstly as we have already started planning next year at work and if you don't remember to keep a few weeks clear, they quickly get filled up. And my youngest starts school in September, which is a momentous thing indeed, and one that needs building up to and using up every last minute I have left with him before he starts!...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Researchers in Scotland hoping to find the famous Loch Ness monster instead stumbled across hundreds of thousands of golf balls at the lake's bottom. Apparently tourists and locals alike enjoy using the lake as a driving range, but Planet Green doesn't think it's a laughing matter. It notes a recent...
Jerusalem Hills daily photo (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
. During my weeks in Tiberias, after our digging day was over I would often escape from the crowded hostel room and walk up to a hotel with real class--"The Scottie." Just to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere. Their brochure is titled "The Scots Hotel, St. Andrew's, Galilee, Owned and Managed by the Church of Scotland, Maintaining Christian Witness in the Land of Christ Since 1885."...
Simon Says! (Simon Whaley's Tutor Blog) (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Just a quick post this week because I'm preparing to do a talk at Kendal Writers' Group tonight. Here's a picture taken on Monday in the Lake District (the weather was like this on Wednesday too!) Standing at the top of Wetherlam (2,502 feet above sea level) I could see far and wide. I had a complete overview of my surrounding area - the northern Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, Morecombe Bay and...
Robs Windows Help (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
If you ever wondered where the wonderful pictures where taken for the UK Windows 7 Theme pack ? Oak Tree by Ullswater Lake in the Lake District http://www.ullswater.co.uk/ Castlerigg Stone Circle near Keswick, http://visitcumbria.com/kes/casstone.htm Ruins of Dunluce Castle in Northern Ireland http://www.ukheritage.net/castles/dunluce.htm Conwy Castle in Wales http://www.conwy-castle.co.uk/ Seaton...
GORSEDD ARBERTH (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
T hree shiploads of Prydwen went into it Except seven, none returned from Caer Sidi (extract from the Book of Taliesin manuscript) * Who – and when – was Taliesin? This is a question with many answers and it is necessary to be clear about precisely what we are asking. Questions about Taliesin can best be discussed by identifying four separate but interacting categories: The Historical Poet...
The World's Greatest Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Penrith is a market town in Cumbria on the M6. Many people pass the town on their way between England and Scotland or the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District. There’s a castle ruin, an unusual Church and loads of tearooms and pubs. If you’re looking for internet access, you can use a cafe on Devonshire [...]
Steven's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Lake District is much closer to home than the north of Scotland, less than 2 hours away by Bob our driver. Carnethy put a team of 8 runners together to race in this famed event. I was running with a very hyper Andy Spenceley - we're well matched and we made up 2 places on our leg by passing 3 teams and being passed by one team. Andy later worked it our we were only a couple of minutes out of the...
Tony Ruscoe's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Saturday In order to break up the long drive home from Scotland, we decided to stop over in the Lake District for the final night of our honeymoon. After searching online for somewhere that served good food, I fortunately came across The Cedar Manor Hotel & Restaurant in Windermere which had excellent restaurant and hotel reviews. Although their website says they only allow stays of two nights...
Lettuce-eating (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Not so long ago I confessed my button habit - one of my favourite collections. Another favourite is stones. I cannot CANNOT walk on a beach without picking up stones and I still have stones which I collected on family holidays as a teenager. I have a chunk of marble and pyrite which I remember picking up and carrying on a long hike up Ben Lomond and back down again, in Scotland .... (sorry short of...
Business Travel News - TravelPlus (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
SWISS is set to increase its network out of northern England with the addition of two weekly direct flights from Manchester to Geneva from 20 December 2009. The new scheduled route, now bookable on swiss.com/uk from just £77 return including all taxes and free transportation of snowsport equipment, takes SWISS’s number of weekly flights out of Manchester to 26. The new direct route to...
PurpleTraveller (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
I was speaking to Ian today about his cycle LEJOG attempt that unfortunately ended at Dumfries Medical Centre. Apparently one of Ian's knees had been giving him problems as he was cycling up Shap in the Lake District- he carried on trying to cycle 'through' the pain. He managed to get to the top (shrouded in clouds at the time) and from there on it was a downhill ride for most of the distance to the...
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