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.
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For our next weekend away, we chose the Campanile Hotel, Runcorn. Warnings of a storm over the weekend overshadowed it. The journey there was uneventful and we found the hotel without too much trouble. Simon had some chips and I had some ice cream in the restaurant before we turned in for the night. In the morning the weather was pretty wild and we ran across to the main building for breakfast. After that we raced across to the station for a train to Chester. Ours was one of the few trains still running. We huddled in the waiting room until the last minute. By the time got to Chester, the weather had calmed down considerably and there were no delays to our train to Rhyl. We caught the bus to Rhuddlan but when we got to the castle it had been closed due to the weather conditions. this seemed like a disaster but I had noted the bus was going on to Denbigh. I found a number for the castle there and got confirmation it was still open so we mov...
Julie had booked a weekend away at Green View Lodges, Welton so I presented Simon with some options and he selected filming some nearby trigs. The footage will appear here in due course. We went into Wigton for lunch at La Barista restaurant. In the afternoon, we covered another trig and also a pele tower near Mealsgate. The footage will appear here in due course. We returned to a footpath near our first trig because I realised I'd left my walking pole there. I did manage to retrieve it. We went into Dalston to do some shopping before returning to the lodge.
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