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A song of hills and rain: Dent to Appleby-in-Westmorland

A song of hills and rain: Dent to Appleby-in-Westmorland

  From picturesque Dent we went on to the next cute town, to Sedbergh in Cumbria. It’s apparently England’s official book town, you find a lot of independent and second-hand-booksellers. The landlady of the BnB we stayed in, Sue, a nice elderly lady, also used to have an antique shop up to a few years ago, where she sold „quirky things for quirky people“. Now, she rents it out. The path to Sedbergh was rather unimpressive, and quite short –…

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50 Shades Of Mud: Horton-in-Ribblesdale – Ingleton – Dent

50 Shades Of Mud: Horton-in-Ribblesdale – Ingleton – Dent

  On the road again. After resting for 5 days my ankle and my toe seem better so we continue our trip up north. We decided to take things slowly for the start and made our way to Horton-in-Ribblesdale from where we would walk to Ingleton. The route was about 14km and had an ascent of 483m taking us to the top of mount Ingleborough at 730m. The route itself took us over some meadows and along some old Roman…

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Offa’s Lessons: What we learned from our defeat

Offa’s Lessons: What we learned from our defeat

  Britain – Anja & Henry: 1 – 0 After Henry had slipped a couple of times and presumably broke his left toe, we called off the Offa’s challenge. We almost made it halfway through, after seven days of walking. Not bad. But we could have done better, no doubt about it, we didn’t achieve our goal of walking the whole way. Well, next time. Or not. Some lessons we learnt anyway:   Take your time – take breaks. 425…

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