The eyemask really works and I wake at 8am instead of dawn as is usually the case when camping. A peak outside at the weather turns to a moment of panic all the other tents have been hastily packed away by people fleeing from the zombie attack. Ten seconds later the sleep has cleared and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Camping’
No news is good news
Posted in Lakes 2009, Posts, tagged Beer, Camping, Danny Baker, Elterwater, Grasmere, Hawkshead, Jennings Cumberland Ale, Lake District, Langdale, Zombie on 14 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First Steps
Posted in Lakes 2009, Posts, tagged Ambleside, Beer, Camping, Coniston, Elterwater, Hawkshead, Hodge Close Quarry, Lake District, Lucys of Ambleside, Wordsworth on 13 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A light morning mist hovers above but the sun is fighting through to reveal the nameless peaks that surround the campsite as I emerge from my tent. The forecast is good and my abused walking boots beckon from beneath the peak district mud I that failed to clean off them last time out. It’s 9:30am [...]
Stairway to the stars
Posted in Lakes 2009, Posts, tagged Beer, Camping, Hartleys, Hawkshead, Jennings, Kirkstone Pass Inn, Lake District, stars on 12 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For somebody traditionally organised I find myself in the unprecedented situation of starting my holiday today having made precisely no arrangements. It’s all laid out in my mind, a 5 night walking tour of the Lakes taking in some known and treasured areas and (unsurprisingly) pubs, but when I tried booking accommodation last Wednesday everywhere [...]
Thursday – build me an ark
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Ark, Beer, Camping, Fifteen, Newquay, Penhallow, Pub, Rain, Tollgate Farm, Watergate Bay on 16 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m woken by a cargo plane buzzing over the campsite as it prepares to land at the adjoining airstrip. It’s mercifully dry and I prepare to undertake the activity I have dreaded most, before the other campers wake and are able to watch. Yes, it’s time to put away the “2 second” tent that I [...]
Wednesday – a tale of two beaches
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Beer, Camping, news, Sun, tourism, Trevose Head, Watergate Bay, WiFi on 15 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s time to up sticks and for the perennial camper you just hope for dry weather when unpitching. The omens during last night’s storm were not good but the morning breaks calm and sunny, the brisk wind having dried out the tent. Packed, I head off down the coastal road signposted Newquay on the lookout [...]
Tuesday – walking and waiting in the wet
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Beer, Camping, Constantine Bay, Crows Nest, Harlyn, Padstow, Port Isaac, Rain, St Merryn, Sun, Walking on 14 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur Dent could never quite get the hang of Thursdays. For me it’s Tuesdays. There’s plenty to be indecisive about. I’m awake later than expected (welcome, but no early getaway), the weather forecast is intermittently apocalyptic and I’m not sure whether my limbs will protest about another full days walk. Sod it, I’m off to [...]
Monday – best foot forward
Posted in Cornwall, Posts, tagged Beer, Black Torr, Camping, Daymer Bay, Padstow, Polzeath, Rain, Rock, Sun, Walking on 13 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The eye mask I was given on a long haul flight does the job and I wake at a respectable 6:20am and not the break of dawn. A tentative peak outside reveals the sun glistening off the morning dew, but no obvious black clouds. A quick shower and breakfast then I’m off down the hill [...]
