We’re feeling the the undeniably pull of attraction to visit Woolsthorpe Manor deep in the rural Lincolnshire countryside, a site of scientific interest for it is the birthplace, family home to Sir Isaac Newton and the home of gravity. Probably the most influential scientist of all time, Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor on a […]
Category: UK Tour
At the Edge of the Empire – from Housteads to Hadrain’s Wall and the Northumberland Coast
The Northumberland Coast, a few days of extreme dog walking adventures in England’s least populated county at the edge of the empire in Northumberland, along the coast of Northumberland from Newbiggin to Berwick-upon-Tweed to Hadrian’s Wall. A bit like the original tourists here, the Romans, and later, the Vikings, but with less colonising, raiding, raping, […]
Glencoe – James Bond’s Back Garden – Scotland Road Trip Part 5
Prepare yourselves dear reader, for a story of betrayal, misery and murder, for today we visit Glencoe for its gorgeous glen and its murderous mountains. The weather is appalling, ‘pishing it doon’ as they say up here. We’re also well aware that the local inclement weather of the UK can do a perfectly reasonable job of […]
The Road to Skye – Scotland Road Trip Part 4
Another day in our Scotland road trip and this time we make for the road to Skye, and we’re accompanied by a fine Scotch mist. This is significantly better than be being accompanied by a squad of suicide Scottish midges. Never underestimate the power of the midges, all females with teeth, taking a bite. It’s like […]
Glenfinnan to Morar – Scotland Road Trip Part 3
After the disappointment of Loch Ness, this time we’re heading to west Scotland’s spectacular scenery of Loch Shiel and Glenfinnan to the silver sands of Morar away from screaming sirens of society. This is after all, a digital detox away from the madness of mankind. At least we were hoping it would be but that […]
Loch Ness and Beyond – Scotland Road Trip Part 2
The Great Glen is a huge geological fault, not nearly as many faults as me as my wife likes to point out, that cuts diagonally across the highlands 62 miles long with shadow of Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest peak dominating nearby Fort William in the south. Today though we are heading a little further north […]
The High Road to the Highlands – Scotland Road Trip Part 1
We’re north of the wall, one built by the Romans to keep the buckfast binging, bagpipe bashing, tartan totting, kilted claymore wielding clansmen and painted Picts at bay. This is the wild frontier of “auld enemy”, visiting our geographic Celt cousins and waving to the half-naked highlanders in the rugged highlands, luscious lochs and gorgeous glens, […]
Having a blast at the York Cold War Bunker
A warning, this is not the usual semi-romantic dog walking adventure you may have seen on this site before. It’s a grim reminder of a hopefully bygone era, today we are visiting the York Cold War Bunker. A retreat of safe haven in a time of unparalleled danger, in fact, it’s just the thing for surviving a […]
Monsal Dale
Following the River Wye in Monsal Dale is a pleasant journey through Taddington Woods and the subject of today’s extreme dog walk. To be honest its not exactly extreme and not exactly far . Park up the on the car park on the main road cross to the other side to follow the trail along […]
The Roaches
The Roaches form a gritstone escarpment in the Peak District looking over the Leek, Tittesworth Reservoir and the Cheshire Plain. This jagged crest of rocks, along with Hen Cloud and Ramshaw Rocks marks the south west tip of the Pennines. Today we take a trip to it, over it and around it while extreme dog walking. […]
The King in the Car Park
The King in the car park, what a way to be remembered, as if your reputation wasn’t bad enough already. King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, the last king of England to die in battle, not quite the end of the Wars of the Roses but marking the end […]
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The wild frozen and barren wastelands of the north, also known as Yorkshire, is the focus of today’s visit, specifically the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Located just off the M1 motorway at West Bretton near Wakefiled, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is set in 500 acres of rolling rural lands and freezing fresh air as we study stylish […]
Hathersage Moor
Today is New Years Day. Start of a new day, a new year and a new you according to Sam. So with this in mind, we finds ourselves exercising and extreme dog walking around Hathersage Moor to kick-start the rude awakening out of the post Christmas & New Year slumber to avoid slipping any further […]
London
A lot has changed since we last visited London, the wealth of the richest has doubled, the Government has allowed homelessness to rise 47% since 2010, allowed £70Bn of bank tax evasions while chasing the poorest members of society for £1Bn of benefit fraud and has now sold us out to our new Chinese overlords. […]
South West Wales
Conquest castles, celts, cakes, cawl, sheep, St David, daffodils, Davy Gam, Dylan Thomas, rarebit, rebels, leeks and us. They’ve even got a dragon on their flag. This isn’t Westeros, its Wales boyo. We’re holidaying in south west Wales, with rain coats at the ready guarding us against the accidental spittle of unpronounceable place names. We’ve […]
Stanage Edge
Stanage Edge, a gritstone escarpment like a broken boulder backbone of Britain past Hathersage in the Peak District. A geological gap of the Dark Peak and the White Peak stretching for 3 1/2 miles rising up 20 metres in places taking it to a nose bleeding 458 metres at its highest point elevation. Try not […]
Oxford
Fresh from our Monster Megalithic Monument tour, we’re taking advantage and sightseeing in Oxford, the city of dreaming spires and old worldly charm. Every city has its sights, Oxford has its cyclists and scholars. With it being summer and the recess before new term, the chances of being mown down by a psycho student cyclist […]
Monster Megalithic Monument Tour
We’re on tour, a chance to take a trip in the new car and test it, test the sat-nav and ultimately test our patience when we won’t find anywhere. So we’ve gone south towards Stonehenge in what we’re calling by the very catchy name of the nerdy neolithic Monster Megalithic Monument tour. Checking the weather […]
Speedwell Cavern and Peak Cavern
We’re off over the border into the wild and windy badlands of the Peak District in Derbyshire at Speedwell Cavern and The Devil’s Arse Peak Cavern. Off to see how the other half live, obviously they live underground. Starting at Speedwell Cavern, we’re at the foot of Winnits Pass to dip down to the deepest part […]
Surprise View
We’ve been roaming the Derbyshire Peak District for what now seems like hours in an attempt to find a suitable route to Stanage Edge. The area we are currently having some navigational difficulty with is called the Dark Peak, presumably, because they don’t like to give out routes or signposts, Postcodes to Stanage Edge. Instead we’ve […]