Aysgarth Falls and Castle Bolton

  Our Hip2trek adventure at the weekend was to Aysgarth falls and Castle Bolton in Wenslydale in the Yorkshire Dales. The falls are a beauty spot made famous by the film starring Kevin Costner in ‘Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves. An hour and half journey away from where we live I negotiated the winding…

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7 things we love about Bolton Abbey

  This weekend Hip2Trek visited Bolton Abbey and here are the 7 reasons we love it. 1) Nostalgia! I grew up not far from Bolton Abbey, so family outings and School trips were often here and I know the area quite well. I love being able to now take my own children and see their…

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Marvellous Malham and glorious mud!

This week our walk was around Malham in the Yorkshire Dales. Malham is best described as a pretty little village, surrounded by limestone dry stone walls with a stream running through it. It was mentioned in the Doomsday book and has been a settlement at least a thousand years. It’s been on our list of…

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