Tokyo University students come to the Lake District (again!)
This September saw Japanese visitors enjoying a ten-day study programme in the Lake District. In a partnership between Hidden Lakeland…
This September saw Japanese visitors enjoying a ten-day study programme in the Lake District. In a partnership between Hidden Lakeland…
Goodbye to a group of four wonderful women, determined not just to see the lakes but to experience it whole-heartedly.…
This September saw Japanese visitors enjoying a ten-day study programme in the Lake District. In a partnership between Hidden Lakeland…
It’s not often I take my own advice, but I “top-tipped” the Rannerdale Valley for bluebells in May when blogging…
I’m celebrating my first “live” tour of the Lake District since March 2020 today, after an amazing day out with @the_apoke on May…
Early morning sunshine led the way down from Rannerdale Knotts, at the start of a blissful circuit of Crummock Water…
People notice the arrival of winter in many ways. The clocks going back. The fading colours of autumn and trees…
Autumnal Walk #3 (see last year’s October blogs for two more great walks to do in the autumn) borrows sections…
The English Lake District is all set to be “the place to be” again this spring and summer, with the…
What better way to celebrate the easing of England’s third national lockdown than with an open-top bus ride from Keswick,…
At eve: how softly then Doth Aira force, that torrent hoarse Speak from the woody glen! (William Wordsworth, The Somnambulist,…
This Hidden South Lakeland walk from Beetham to Milnthorpe is a walk of glorious contrasts, taking in bucolic hills, dappled…
I recently shared a series of photographs taken by guests on my tours last summer on Instagram. It was both…
At last, the all clear for sustainable transport! When lockdown in the UK was eased in late June, Prime Minister…
Huge thanks to Cumbria Chamber of Commerce for helping me start up my sustainable tourism business for Japanese visitors to…
I’ve been thinking a lot about childhood during the lockdown, probably because this was when I last had time on…
On 15 March 2020, I guided Mariko-san from Nagasaki together with her daughter and family friend around Windermere, Grasmere and…
Was it a visit or satogaeri (coming home)? I wondered about this over the seven weeks I spent in Japan…
January made an auspicious start to the new year for Hidden Lakeland, with the launch of an exciting new partnership…
Are you in the UK for a winter break this O-shogatsu (Japanese New Year, from December 31 to January 4),…
And that’s a cause for celebration, not dismay. Long gone are the days when the Lake District emptied over the…
Celebrating Great Landscapes Week from Saturday 3 August to Friday 9 August 2019, landscape charity Friends of the Lake District…
J.M.W. Turner’s Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798) shows a tiny boat bobbing on Buttermere with…
Levens Hall reopened to the public on 7 April 2019 after its annual winter break. As one of the more…
Jutting out into the ocean or stretching into a calm lake, jetties are about departures and arrivals, anticipation and travel.…
This walk from Grasmere begins close to Allan Bank – one of the many houses once lived in by William…
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