Hips, trips, training and getting kids outside!
We’ve just come back from a long weekend in Alnwick, Northumberland. We’ve been wanting to go back since taking the kids nearly ten years ago. With its glorious coastline, abundance of castles and pretty villages there really is something for everyone. Which will explain why, along with obvious global reasons, it was so difficult to…
I decided on the spur of the moment to book a visit to Chatsworth House gardens. I’ve been wary of visiting ‘tourist attractions’ since the lockdown rules have been relaxed even further. Some of the pictures from beauty spots of overcrowding and littering have been horrifying. However, I needn’t have worried about this at…
Our most recent family walk was up Sharp Haw, a conical shaped hill known as Skipton’s Matterhorn. A fact I’ve only just learnt! Sharp Haw also has an easy trig point for the kids to bag. I’ve great affection for this hill, as driving towards college it would appear in the distance and I would…
Our first relaxed lockdown walk was to Lund’s Tower and Wainman’s Pinnacle. Situated in North Yorkshire above the village of Sutton in Craven, the towers are known locally as the Salt and Pepper pots. Both Towers have several other names and Lund’s tower is a stone folly, built in 1887. Driving back from Skipton most…
If you’re looking for an easy walk from Ilkley Moor, with a circle of standing stones, then this might be the walk for you. It also includes the option of making it slightly longer to include a pub stop! My kids love Ilkley moor and are always asking to go and walk up there…
Mam Tor, known as Mother Hill or Shivering mountain, is a hill 517 metres high, in the High Peak area of Derbyshire and one of the most famous walks in the Peak District. Just under an hour and half travel time from Bradford We parked in the Castleton National park Visitor carpark, postcode S33…
At last we had some sunshine this weekend for our walking adventures and we headed to Jervaulx Abbey for a circular walk of approx. 7 miles. Great to get outside when it’s not blowing a gale. We started from the Jervaulx abbey tearooms carpark, putting our £1 in the honesty box for the parking and…
With Christmas just days away and storm Barbara beginning to make an appearance, I’m not sure how many outdoor adventures we’re going to have in the next few days. Hopefully we can have a small walk on Boxing Day to walk off the turkey, depending on how bad this storm really will be. Last weekend…
Just north of Otley, in the Washburn valley are the Yorkshire Water reservoirs of Swinsty and Fewston surrounded by woodland and great footpaths it’s just our sort of place for a family adventure. There are three car parks to choose from and we parked at the middle car park, (which has toilets and an ice…