My Coast to Coast Walk

  This blogspot has been moved to my own personal domain.  I have been finding this app quite tedious to use and so decided to give up on it  and move everything to a new place.   www.lianesoutham.co.uk    So after a jaunt over to Windermere and Grasmere on Sunday afternoon and a stroll around Kendal on Bank Holiday Monday, Mark dropped me back to Kirkby Stephen late afternoon. I had decided to abandon the idea of camping over the next few days, sending all my camping gear back to Chorley with Mark. My plan now was to make use of hostels and b&bs as it would only be four nights. This meant that I would be able to cover more miles in a shorter time and have a comfortable night's sleep, without having to worry about weather and pitching and packing up each day. It made perfect sense. So I spent Bank Holiday Monday night in Kirkby Stephen hostel. Wow, that was an amazing place!  I had booked a bed in the ladies dorm, but I was the only one booke ...

  This blogspot has been moved to my own personal domain.  I have been finding this app quite tedious to use and so decided to give up on it  and move everything to a new place.   www.lianesoutham.co.uk    So after a night of being a bit scared in the tent, worried a tree was going to crash down onto my tent, with the wind howling and the rain tipping down all night, pretty much, I woke up and decided I was going to pack up and leave whilst there was a gap in the showers. My tent was wet when I put it away, but it wasn't possible to get it completely dry. I decided to do without my morning cuppa and porridge, making do with fruit, a Chorley cake and some trail mix, washed down with water. It was fine. I knew I would be in Kirkby Stephen by lunchtime and was preparing to having something more substantial there. It was a struggle to get everything back in my pack, it felt like I had more than I had started off with, but in reality the only extra thing I had w...