Our third airbandb weekend took us to Roose, a suburb of Barrow-in-Furness.
We went up on Friday night , stopping at Burton Services for a bite to eat at Burger King. We found our airbandb relatively easily, noting its convenient proximity to a supermarket. It was clean and comfortable. Simon sorted out how to work the TV.
On the Saturday morning, we drove to Roa Island for the ferry to Piel Island. I had kept the boat ride secret from Simon to increase his excitement when we got there. The boat was fairly full but we got on no problem. It was a lovely crossing.
Once we arrived on the island, we went straight to the castle.The video we filmed can be seen here.
After that we spent a little time on the beach before going to the Ship Inn for a drink.
The pub also serves as a mini-museum of the island.
The pub was reopening after a time vacant and so according to local custom, the island had a new "king". This one was called Steve and Simon went up to him for a selfie.
He also recommended we go to the Boat Club on Roa Island for lunch. While we were waiting for the ferry we played with his dog.
There was a good view over to Black Combe.
This is looking over Morecambe Bay towards the Pennines.
This is looking over towards Barrow.
The ferry arrived to take us back to Roa Island.
We had lunch at the Boat club and although not particularly cheap it was very good.
In the afternoon, we drove to Sandscale Haws and had a walk through the dunes looking for natterjack toads but we failed to find any. The views over to Black Combe and the Coniston fells were great though.
We had a Chinese takeaway for supper then watched Taken on the TV.
The next morning, we took it easy then went to Mass at a nearby church. When we got back , the owner of the property had returned after saying he'd be away all weekend so we had to leave rather hurriedly.
We drove to a little car park near the village of Satterthwaite and did a walk that went through the village then part of Grizedale Forest. It was much tougher than we were expecting. Satterthwaite was a very quiet vilage with apparently no amenities though there is a pub that wasn't on our route.
Much of the route went through cleared patches making it quite rough though it did allow better views.
We spotted this sign on the walk.
Once we'd finished the walk, we headed home. Next day we saw that our host had put some rather nitpicking comments on the airbandb website which put a slight dampener on things.
Having got the bit between his teeth, Simon wanted to finish the towpath with the final section into Sowerby Bridge.. This was a direct repeat of a trip from the classic era in January 1980. We drove to Hebden Bridge, stopping at Nutty's Butty's along the way. We parked at Hebden Bridge station. We picked up where we left off , spotting a Beatles fan moored up there. Where you have to cross the main road to rejoin the towpath between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd , there's now a droll sign. There's now some fancy ca...
This was my choice although necessitated by our YouTube schedule. We drove to Wycoller Country Park and the video we filmed can be seen here. After that, we walked a route from Paul Hannon's "Walks In Bronte Country" . This took us past the rocky outcrop of Foster's Leap. There was a good view over to Boulsworth Hill. Simon posed on the rocks. We passed the sadly now closed and converted Herder's Arms and walked along the road to Haworth for three quarters of a mile. A track to the right dropped us down into the valley and we made quick progress to the ancient bridge where we did some additional filming. We then passed the picnic site on the right. As the tea room in Wycoller has now closed we drove to a cafe in Trawden for lunch. Then we drove home.
This was Julie taking over our schedule and kidnapping us to The Castle Inn at Bassenthwaite for the weekend. We drove up there on Friday evening.and. we settled ourselves in the room. On the Saturday we drove to Cockermouth to make a video about the Castle. I thought we might be able to get closer than is normally possible because there was a band concert in the courtyard that afternoon. When we got there there were members of the public coming in and out and a food van was already operating so after filming an intro on the entrance path we went in and tried to film as unobtrusively as posible although I did ask one of the event stewards if we could film on the lawn. He said yes but as we were leaving, Simon was approached by a man who I rightly guessed to be Lord Egremont , the owner of the castle. He politely asked to see what we'd filmed and eventually agreed there...
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