I just found this post in my Drafts folder in WordPress and realised it had been there since early summer and never posted. I think I...

I’m still catching up processing the shots of Holme Fell I’ve been taking over the last few weeks. The autumn colour is now largely gone...

Tarn Hows is one of the most beautiful lakes in an area renowned for beautiful lakes – the Lake District. In the Lake District there are...

I wrote last week about my overnight wild camp to Eskdale and the wonderful viewpoint of Border End. The evening before had been good but...

I had an overnight trip to the Yorkshire Dales last week, camping in mid-Wharfedale above Conistone. I’d previously scouted this area and...

Llanberis Pass Seeing the Llanberis Pass in Snowdonia in heavy cloud is pretty common. Even on a bright day it doesn’t see much sun, the...

The welsh tourist town of Llanberis, at the foot of Mount Snowdon, is not dominated by the highest mountain in Wales and England, nor by...

The sun about to rise behind the hills in the north. The morning after the night before was beautiful. Clear, still, fresh. The alarm...

The northern coast of the Lleyn peninsula in North Wales is a wild and (relatively) quiet place. It’s well away from the tourist...

Drive from Caernarfon towards Beddgelert on the A4085, past Llyn Cwellyn, and you arrive at Rhyd Ddu. It’s a hamlet with pub and cafe and...

The morning after the night before, and a better night’s sleep than I often get in a bivvy bag, I woke just before the alarm went off at...

Glenridding from Silver Crag. The Helvellyn range is the far sky line. A few weeks ago, my first (successful) overnight wild camp of the...

8 miles 770 metres ascent 6 hours round trip Route map on plotaroute.com I’ve done this walk before but not for some time. Starting in...

Most of my memories of St. Ives are of sunshine and glittering sea. When we were there a few weeks ago that’s what we mostly got, along...

The island of Anglesey is separated from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait, about 16 miles long and between 400m and 1100m wide....

Friend and erstwhile market stallholder Richard and his better half Polly have moved up to better things and opened a very nice gallery...

Joy and I did a walk in the Llangollen valley a few weeks ago, taking in the spectacular Pontcysyllte aqueduct, now a world heritage...

April in England is the time for blossom. Going out photographing in the Lake District yesterday, after checking my stock at Botany Bay,...

In response to the WordPress Daily Post challenge Atop This symbol is used on Ordnance Survey maps (the best maps in the world, IMHO) to...

Yesterday I went walking around the waterside areas around Frodsham. This is a small town near the inland end of the Mersey estuary. The...