Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Hike Around the Lake District
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Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Hike Around the Lake District
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This is the Lake District seen from its walking paths – with just a backpack, an open mind… and a spring in the step.
He has written magazine pieces for Wanderlust, Geographical and Business Traveller - and contributes book reviews to the TLS. This is the Lake District for the casual rambler seen from its walking paths – with a backpack on, an open mind… and a spring in the step. Tom takes us on a journey to The Lake District and shows us all the beautiful and magnificent hikes you can do. This is a Lake District as lived, and not as seen on a day hike – there are trips to extinct quarries with their exhibitions of the industrial plant of the region, there are encounters with people decommissioning Sellafield. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts.
This is post Storm Desmond, which is referred to several times; it's post Brexit, and there are many references to the effect of that on the lack of employees in the tourism industry as a result; it's also post Covid and that's talked about in some of his encounters; and finally it's written after the start of the Ukraine war, and Tom has reasons why that's very personal to him.
Just remember to take a camping mat and some fuel… and you can stay in a bothy without any bother at all. You will have gathered by now that this is not really a guide to the Lakes but you will still learn a lot about the place and especially about its people, and hopefully you will also be entertained. Tom Chesshyre sets off to make a meandering circle of the Lake District on foot with one aim in mind: ‘to let happenchance lead the way. The best travel writing is about people as much as places, and the best way to meet the people who inhabit or visit a place is on foot. Had I done so, it would have been toasty and perfect, not that I had particularly minded with an engrossing book to read by candlelight – and a good bottle of red wine.A lovely gentle, slow paced meander around the peaks, lakes and valleys of the Lake District - an impressive 379 miles of them.
The Chalke History Festival announces a new name, new look, and tons for history buffs to get their teeth into! Tom Chesshyre sets off to make a meandering circle of the Lake District on foot with one aim in mind: 'to let happenchance lead the way. A good travelogue is the one that makes me open a map and check if I could visit those places and walk on those path. Tom Chesshyre’s 379-mile hike through the English Lake District proves the point admirably: ‘I wanted the random to rule in Lost in the Lakes. Tom Chesshyre is no brash Wainwright-bagger, but instead a relaxed, affable guide who takes us on a ‘big wobbly circle’ of a stroll around all sixteen main lakes: an impressive 379 miles in all.By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. But while the author is not pretending to have surpassed recognisable logic with his mileage, and not claiming to have recognised the three-throated chiff-warbler by sound alone, this really is my kind of Lakes travel book.
WalkLakes recognises that hill walking, or walking in the mountains, is an activity with a danger of personal injury or death. The map at the front of the book makes it easy to see where he is and where he is going and the chapters are broken down into the different places he visits. Other entries told of knees-ups with songs being sung into the early hours beside the glowing grate. Christopher Somerville , The Times Bob Mortimer wins 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with The Satsuma Complex Yet the cheapest of all nights – in the bothy – proves the most memorable of my month-long trip.Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. A charming book, brimming with tender affection for this ‘magnificent… dreamy patchwork’ of peaks, tarns and ‘serpentine valleys… between soaring slopes’.
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