45km is quite a ludicrous amount ground to cover. I shouldn’t wonder if your feet are not covered in numerous blisters. Most impressive though; it puts our 8km walks in the lakes to shade!

It’s also a good illustration as to why I always used to get the second-to-last train back from Chichester, back in the day when I actually went out…

Our trip to the lakes was very successful. With the final guestlist comprising of Me, Han, Sue and Patty, we split our visit between epic walks and visits to towns and other places of interest. Jul, being partially crippled, stayed at home.

Han and I did three big walks in total: Cat’s Bells (returning via Derwent water, 4hrs), very pleasant and a good warm-up walk; Harrison Stickle (via Stickle Tarn, as recommended by Tan, 6hrs), good fun with a great decent down by Loft Crag; The Old Man Of Coniston (coming back via Swirl How, 6hrs), really good, steep climb up to the top of Old Man and good views on the way down.

I shall upload some photos when I can get Virgin to sort out our broadband!