Tag: Lake District
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Park Foot Campsite – Pooley Bridge – Ullswater
If you are regular readers of this blog you will know that we are partial to a bit of camping. Last Summer we wracked up 15 nights under canvas tacking Kendal, Boroughbridge, Mid-Wales, Just So Festival Cheshire and Kendal Calling. All very different experiences with all of the weather unpredictability the UK could throw at…
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Kendal Camping – Day 3 – Kendal and Wild Boar Inn
Packing up Sadly our long bank holiday adventure had come to an end and it was time to pack up and head back to Newcastle. As the weather was still gorgeous and so rubbish back at home we decided to spend as much of the Bank holiday Monday in the Lakes, soaking up the precious rays.…
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Kendal camping – Day 2 – Grasmere
I’ll admit I’m in love with this area of the Lake District and I think Alan was a bit sick of my saying so en route. It’s probably the area we know best as we spent a week in a holiday cottage in nearby Elterwater with my parents (pre-children). It’s a week that lives in…
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Kendal camping – Day 1 – Bowness on Windermere
Airbed Issues After a dodgy night of slumber with a very rude 3am (then 5am) wake up call due to a rapidly deflating air bed, I was up, showered and drinking my cup of tea in the sunshine by 8am. Despite the baking hot temperatures in the tent the rest of the Hooper gang were…
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Camping in Kendal
When the early May Bank Holiday camping trip fell to pieces due to Weather, Boiler and Car issues, we knew we had to get another one booked in. So we looked for somewhere within a 2 hour range from home and Kendal fell into place. Camping in Kendal We’d joined up to the Camping and…