Monday, September 04, 2006

Welcome to Our Hobbits' Holiday!

From the Irish Sea
to the North Sea,

With everything in between...


















Wainwright wrote of the Lakelands, the landscape that really changed us forever:
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Surely there is no other place in this whole wonderful world quite like Lakeland...no other so exquisitely lovely, no other so charming, no other that calls so insistently across a gulf of distance. All who truly love Lakeland are exiles when away from it." We do, indeed, feel as exiles now.



We've created this blog for family and friends so they can share in our adventures. We had an unforgettable time in England hiking the Coast to Coast. It was 200 miles of sheer wonder, beauty, fun, and, yes, pain! For an intro to this trip (and our motivations for going) please read our first post and take a look at the Wainwright Society.

During this trip we both kept a journal - JanJan's is posted here in the day to day posts. They're nothing poetic, just what we did, what we saw, what we thought (with pictures, of course!). You can access the diary by pressing on any of the links below - each will lead you to a day of the journey. (You can, of course, just scroll down this entire blog, page by page.)

Getting There: From Connecticut to St. Bees
Day 1 - St. Bees to Ennerdale: The Adventure Begins
Day 2 - Ennerdale to Honister Hause: Fog on the Barrow Downs
Day 3 - Honister Hause to Grasmere: Of Cream Tea and Wordsworth and Sticky Toffee Pudding!
Day 4 - Grasmere to Patterdale: We Put the 'Hel' in Helvellyn
Day 5 - Patterdale to Shap: Happy Endings
Day 6 - Shap to Kirkby Stephen: The Day From Hell
Day 7 - Kirkby Stephen to Keld: Bogs and Monsters
Day 8 - Keld to Reeth: Juxtapositions
Day 9 - Reeth to Richmond: The Shock of Noise
Day 10 - Richmond to Osmotherly: The Marathon
Day 11 - Osmotherly to Clay Bank Top/Great Broughton: Finally Time for the Waterproof Pants
Day 12 - Clay Bank Top to Glaisedale: The Moors As Interpreted by Erasure - Or, The Never-Ending Story
Day 13 - Glaisedale to Robin Hood's Bay: The Day of Fond Regret

Here also, for fun, are some posts we thought essential to expressing our experience.

Gallery (just some of our favorite photos)
Queer Folk, the British
The Conscientious Objectors at Richmond Castle
Food, Glorious Food
Our Kit of Wonders (what we brought, tips for other trekkers)
The C2C Fantabulous Zoo (animals we met along the way)
Excursion to Whitby Abbey - Another Abbey Great Harry Sat On (the trip we took the day after we finished at RHB)

Please have fun viewing our blog - and leave your comments! (You don't have to be a blogger/member to leave a note for us.) Thank you to all of you who listened to our training woes, helped us on our way, and gave us encouragement!
Love,
Devin & JanJan (AKA Merry and Pippin)

P.S. If you want to undertake this trek (and we think everyone should), we highly recommend the Sherpa Van Project for booking accommodations and luggage transfers. We'd also love to offer any help in planning. Do it!

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Anonymous said...

Great photos of your trip hobbits...I walked C2C solo, arrived RHB on July 2nd. I could not do Helvellyn as I passed Grisedale Tarn so returned next day (my "rest day") from Glenridding; seems I had similar weather on Striding edge as you had. Congratulations!

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