Photo of the Day – The Viking Way
Taken just outside Bardney, in the wind.
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Walking – The Viking Way
With the end if the summer camping season rapidly approaching, and with the next two weekends booked with a server change over for a client, I have planned a short backing trip to the regular Camping and Caravan Club site near Woodhall Spa using the Viking Way.
This is also a busy weekend as I have to finish a proposal for a client to provide an integrated email solution between an office in the UK and locations in Southern Africa both in the cities and in more remote places – so using our cloud server I am planning to work that this evening on my iPhone.
morning coffee at the ruins of Barlings Abbey
The Viking Way
This sign is not as accurate as it could be – it looks like the path follows the line of the hedge, when actually the path is marked and heads across the middle of the field.
the sign is at the junction shown in the map clip as you approach the abbey ruins from Fiskerton
the path is very distinct when looking back
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More Peak District
We got the tents down this morning and managed to eat our breakfast outside before the rain came along.
Today’s plan was to get some photos and a coffee before heading home. We got the tea, coffee and Derbyshire Oatcakes with bacon at Stocks Cafe, Chapel-en-le-Frith. I’d recommend a visit there to anyone.
Why Stocks Cafe? Here is the answer.
We moved on from there to Blue John Cavern and Edale.
There was a living roof on the Visitor Centre in Edale.
The Kinder Trespass started from Edale in 1932.
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Peak District
As the weather was not great, rather than walk in the hills we thought we would go to Bakewell and follow a short section of a walk Diana had sent me. She had watched a television program where Tony Robinson had been walking in the Peak District and exploring the history of the area. Diana had sent me a PDF, she had got from the show website – so we had a plan.
First stop was Bakewell.
We fled from the tourists and walked up to All Saints Church – where we had an excellent tea and home made cake. (Well Richard had coffee!)
Ratatosk – from the Anglo-Saxon Cross in the churchyard.
Then we moved onto Ashford-in-the-Water – where like Branston there is a Sheepwash.
Sheepwash Bridge
Following lunch by the river we walked up to the Magpie Mine – but using mainly footpaths rather than the suggested road route.
Magpie Mine
Back at the campsite the evening was nice enough to cook and eat outside.
Breakfast in bed
Hayfield Camping and Caravan Club Site
Rather than go to the Lake District we decided to head for the Peak District and Hayfield.
It was raining when we put the tents up but a short, after dinner, walk to the Sportsman Inn solved that problem.
I have gone camping!
Richard and I had planned to go to the Lake District this weekend – we had even thought about wild camping up around Honister, but have now decided to camp in the Peak District. Richard needed some food so we stopped at Tesco where this news paper was on sale!
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Sunset from the campsite
Dunbar Camping and Caravan Club site is a great place for sunsets – and tonight is no exception.
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