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Beginners Guide to Hiking
Top Tips, Walking, World Travel Blogger

Top Tips: A Beginner’s Guide to Hiking – all a newbie hiker needs to know

June 30, 2017 by Guest Author 7 Comments
In our latest World Travel Blogger series, hiking expert Rebecca Crawford shares her top tips for a beginner hiker/walker. Hiking is so much fun, and can be therapeutic at best! You get to exercise and connect with nature at the same time, which unravels a world you had no idea...
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Walking is man's best medicine - Hippocrates - Top 3 health benefits of walking
Mind Body Spirit, Outdoors, Walking

5 Top Mind, Body, Spirit Benefits of Walking in the great outdoors

April 19, 2017 by Zoe Dawes 13 Comments
Nk’Mip Desert Centre, Osoyoos, Canada In today’s non-stop world of digital input and 24 hour news, with people stuck for hours at a PC or almost permanently attached to a smart phone, many of us struggle to find time for ourselves. External pressures create stress and mental health issues are...
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Kendal Castle ruins in Cumbria - photo Zoe Dawes
Cumbria, History, Walking

Exploring Kendal Castle on a sunny Cumbria day

January 3, 2017 by Zoe Dawes 5 Comments
Kendal Castle – Manor Hall The kite’s red wings rattled noisily as it soared higher and higher over Kendal Castle into the clear blue sky, its string held firmly by a guy in a big puffa jacket. “Can I hold it, Dad? Please, can I?” begged the young girl beside...
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The Cleveland Way Yorkshire
Blog trip, Holiday, Walking

An invigorating walking holiday on the Yorkshire coast

September 27, 2016 by Zoe Dawes 5 Comments
Surfer on Whitby Cliffs Striding along the cliff top, the surfer added a somewhat incongruous element to this view of Whitby by the North Sea on the Yorkshire coast. I was here on a walking holiday with HF Holidays, and enjoying the great weather before going to Larpool Hall, where...
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Boating on the River Avon in Stratford - The Quirky Traveller
Literature, UK, Walking

Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare on a summer’s day

August 13, 2016 by Zoe Dawes 3 Comments
Boating on the River Avon Stratford-upon-Avon On a sunny summer’s day Stratford-upon-Avon is the epitome of Englishness. Families picnic on the grass. couples canoodle under trees, canal boats moor up beside a pub, ice-creams are scoffed, dogs are walked and swans are a-swimming.  Children splash beneath an elegant sculpture of...
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Cumbria, Outdoors, Walking

Derwentwater and Catbells in the Lake District, Cumbria

October 6, 2013 by Zoe Dawes 10 Comments
Renowned for its many beautiful lakes and impressive mountain scenery, the Lake District in Cumbria attracts walkers from all over the world. Some of the mountains are very challenging and attract serious climbers and mountaineers.  But you don’t need crampons and hefty nylon ropes to enjoy this area.  In every local...
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Holiday, Top Tips, UK, Walking

5 beautiful places in Britain to enjoy the great outdoors

July 12, 2013 by Zoe Dawes 11 Comments
5 beautiful places in the UK to enjoy the great outdoors  Go over the sea to Skye, wander in Wordsworth’s footsteps, take the easy route to the top of one of Britain’s highest mountains, set sail for new horizons or make a pilgrimage to Holy Island. Here are a few...
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Ferry going across Friar’s Crag on Derwentwater Ferry going across Friar’s Crag on Derwentwater looking out towards the ‘Jaws of Borrowdale’. I just love this view; it epitomises the best of the Lake District 🤗 

“The first thing which I remember as an event in life was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar’s Crag on Derwentwater.” Victorian art critic and philanthropist John Ruskin described this view as one of the three most beautiful in Europe.

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Gin o’clock here in Gelston and I’m raising a Gin o’clock here in Gelston and I’m raising a glass to HER MAJESTY on her Platinum Jubilee … David brought back a gorgeous gift from his highland travels … Beautiful bottle of @isleofharrisdistillers Gin infused with sugar kelp and two luscious hand-crafted gin glasses 💙 As recommended, served with slice of pink grapefruit and @fentimansltd Pink Grapefruit Tonic … Sooo refreshing. And I treated myself to a Platinum Jubilee gift from @fortnums s - a musical biscuit tin that plays 🎶God Save the Queen🎶 Bloody Brilliant - CHEERS!!!! 🥰 

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Her Knitted Majesty and Guardsman atop a red post Her Knitted Majesty and Guardsman atop a red post box in #Kirkcudbright 👑🤗👑 Quirky tribute for her #Platinum #Jubilee 🤣

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