Following the success of a similar study programme in 2022, Hidden Lakeland and The Lake District Foundation have partnered a second time to offer Japanese university students a taste of the Lake District and Cumbria…
Goodbye to a group of four wonderful women, determined not just to see the lakes but to experience it whole-heartedly. Their tour highlight – and mine! – was a day’s weaving at Heron Corn Mill in the pretty village of Beetham, tutored by Slovakian artist, Erika Sojkova Grimes, using Erika’s exquisite hand-spun, non-dyed yarns, made wholly from local fleeces.
This September saw Japanese visitors enjoying a ten-day study programme in the Lake District. In a partnership between Hidden Lakeland and The Lake District Foundation, nine undergraduate students on the University of Tokyo’s Global Education for Innovation and Leadership programme…
It’s not often I take my own advice, but I “top-tipped” the Rannerdale Valley for bluebells in May when blogging about a winter walk around Crummock Water in mid-February, so it only seemed fair to head that way myself on my last day off.
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 16th, one week ago. Blessed with fine, sunny weather for our trip out to Dalemain, near Pooley Bridge at the northern end of Ullswater…
Early morning sunshine led the way down from Rannerdale Knotts, at the start of a blissful circuit of Crummock Water in mid-February. This walk ticked all the boxes, with the modest high of the Knotts offering stunning views of three lakes (Buttermere, Crummock Water and Loweswater), and…
People notice the arrival of winter in many ways. The clocks going back. The fading colours of autumn and trees losing their leaves. Going to work in the dark…
Autumnal Walk #3 (see last year’s October blogs for two more great walks to do in the autumn) borrows sections of the Cumbria Way for a great day out in the Little Langdale Valley. It started when we jumped off the #505 Stagecoach Cumbria bus to Coniston from Kendal at the top of Hawkshead Hill…
The English Lake District is all set to be “the place to be” again this spring and summer, with the warmer weather calling all Staycationers to our lake shores, water and mountains for swimming, sailing, walking, picnics and ice creams. At a time when we are still being encouraged to enjoy ourselves outside where possible,…
What better way to celebrate the easing of England’s third national lockdown than with an open-top bus ride from Keswick, bound for “England’s loveliest square mile” (Alfred Wainwright, The North Western Fells 1964)? This journey took us along the eastern flank of Derwentwater deep into the famed ‘jaws’ of the Borrowdale valley through the villages…