Our trip at the start of February was to Palace Farm at Doddington in Kent. This charming corner of the North Downs has long been a favourite with the group. It’s a lovely hostel, with a really nice pup just a short stroll down the road. All around there …

How did you spend your New Year? Wearily propping your eyes open longing for the chime of midnight so you can at last go to bed? Or grooving on the dance floor with the sparkly ladies at the Blue Ball Inn? If you are in any doubt, we were doing …

Another much postponed trip was finally undertaken when we managed to get to Bretton Hostel for our November weekend trip. Our last visit there was 22 years ago and it’s impossible to imagine why we’ve not managed to get back to such a fabulous location in all that …

Another year, another AGM. The Treasurer’s Report included a resumption in our weekends away after the pandemic, with the resulting good news that our sausage consumption has returned to normal levels. I believe shares in Tesco went up by 6 points on the news. In 2021/22 we downed …

Our August Bank Holiday trip was over to Welsh Wales, but not that hectic busy bit with Snowdon in it. We were a tad further north where the dramatic peaks of Snowdonia ease into the gentler Carneddau before descending down to the sea on the north coast.

For accommodation we …

Scorching hot weather has been the theme of this summer and our weekend in Castle Acre was no exception. A hot, dusty drive, plagued with roadworks, ended for most of us with a delicious meal at The Ostrich and a chance to unwind with a couple of drinks. Suitably relaxed …

A sunny July weekend and we headed off to the South Downs and the Truleigh Hill YH. We arrived around 9pm to find CYHA bunkered down in the hostel sun lounge, eating dinner and sipping drinks with a fantastic view over the ocean. Naturally we joined them and had a …

The fictional vet, James Herriot, was based on the real life experiences of Alf Wight, so it’s very appropriate that the route he first described in his book “James Herriot’s Yorkshire” is named after his alter ego. We started at the war memorial in Aysgarth, walking out via …

Once upon a time there was a super continent called Pangea. Then one day (or possibly it took a little longer) it unzipped along what became the mid-Atlantic ridge. During the unzipping Africa twisted round and started squeezing up against Europe, creating the Alps whilst India smacked into Asia and …

Dave and I added a few days onto the start of the Easter trip to the Lakes with the express purpose of Dave completing his Wainwrights.

For the uninitiated, a Wainwright is a Lakeland Fell described in the pictorial guides by professional curmudgeon, Alfred Wainwright. There are 214 in total …