Friday, 19 June 2009
Coast to Coast Walking Holidays: 2010 bookings flowing in!
Following the success of Julia Bradbury's TV series on the Coast to Coast Walk, Mickledore Travel's Coast to Coast Walking Holidays are being booked not only for this year, but also for 2010. We have had a steady flow of 2010 bookings over the past couple of months, and the feedback we’re getting from the accommodation providers suggest the bookings are coming in from elsewhere, too. So if you’re thinking of walking the Coast to Coast next year, it might be worth booking sooner rather than later.
Whilst we’re on the subject of next year’s bookings, our West Highland Way Walking Holidays are also being booked for next year. The West Highland Way is always popular, especially in May and June, so it’ s good to see people thinking ahead.
Returning to 2009, we are still managing to book last minute walking holidays on most of our routes – so if you’ve been thinking about a holiday – gives us ring!
Whilst we’re on the subject of next year’s bookings, our West Highland Way Walking Holidays are also being booked for next year. The West Highland Way is always popular, especially in May and June, so it’ s good to see people thinking ahead.
Returning to 2009, we are still managing to book last minute walking holidays on most of our routes – so if you’ve been thinking about a holiday – gives us ring!
Labels: 2010, Coast to Coast Walk, Julia Bradbury, walking holidays, west highland way
Sunday, 12 April 2009
St Bees Head - the perfect start to the Coast to Coast
We had great walk round St Bees head yesterday. Following the first few miles of the Coast to Coast Walk we headed down to the beach, busy with families enjoying the sunshine, then headed up the cliffs toward South Head. There were a few paragliders sitting patiently, waiting for the wind to swing to the west, so that they could soar the cliffs.
We rounded South Head and continued northwards along the cliff tops, watching the diving birds busy building there nests. Across the water the twin Peaks of Snaefell and North Barrule broke the horizon, whilst to the northwest the Mull of Galloway could clearly be seen.
After a mile we dropped down to the stream and turn into the fissure that leads to the fine pebble beach of Fleswick Bay. Sheltered by the impressive sandstone cliffs towering above, we spent a pleasant hour in this secluded suntrap, watching the diving birds as the remains of shipwreck emerged from the ebbing tide.
Onwards and Northwards, a steep climb led back to the cliff tops, then on the squat lighthouse sitting above the North Head. Inland to the pretty village of Sandwith then back to St Bees.
It is difficult to imagine a better start to walking holiday – just a shame I had to come back to the office!
Labels: Coast to Coast Walk, st bees
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Wainwright's Coast to Coast Path on the TV
Julia Bradbury's mini series walking the coast to coast path is to be screened starting next Thursday, April 9, at 8pm on BBC 4. I haven't got confirmations of the rest of the series but I would imagine they will be on subsequent Thursdays. The film was made in late summer 2008, and Mickledore was happy to play its part in putting the BBC in touch with several of our clients who were on a Coast to Coast Walking Holiday during filming. I know at least a couple of Mickledore walkers were interviewed on film - so who knows - you might see them on TV in Thursday night.
The BBC has the following to say about episode 1:
"Julia Bradbury follows in the footsteps of legendary guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright by walking across the whole of northern England from the west to the east coast .
This was Wainwright's last great venture and has become his greatest legacy - a beautifully simple proposition, linking three national parks that lie between the Irish and the North Sea.
36 years after its creation, Julia is off, through sunshine, wind and rain to cross the changing landscape, understand the history and meet the people that make up almost 200 miles of northern England.
Enthusiasm and expectation is high as Julia begins her grand adventure at the western extremity of northern England, St Bees Head. The coast of west Cumbria is an oft-forgotten industrial strip lying just outside the Lake District, but as Julia reaches the doorway to Wainwright's favourite playground the weather deteriorates quickly, leaving her no choice but to tackle her first Lakeland valley in appalling conditions."
The BBC has the following to say about episode 1:
"Julia Bradbury follows in the footsteps of legendary guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright by walking across the whole of northern England from the west to the east coast .
This was Wainwright's last great venture and has become his greatest legacy - a beautifully simple proposition, linking three national parks that lie between the Irish and the North Sea.
36 years after its creation, Julia is off, through sunshine, wind and rain to cross the changing landscape, understand the history and meet the people that make up almost 200 miles of northern England.
Enthusiasm and expectation is high as Julia begins her grand adventure at the western extremity of northern England, St Bees Head. The coast of west Cumbria is an oft-forgotten industrial strip lying just outside the Lake District, but as Julia reaches the doorway to Wainwright's favourite playground the weather deteriorates quickly, leaving her no choice but to tackle her first Lakeland valley in appalling conditions."
Labels: Coast to Coast Walk, Julia Bradbury, TV
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Creator of Coast to Coast Walk to be Honoured by Kendal Statue
A statue of Alfred Wainwright, creator of the Coast to Coast Walk, is to be erected in his home town of Kendal, where he was borough treasurer of Westmorland between 1947 and 1967.
It is to be sculpted by Graham Ibbeson, who also created the statue of Eric Morecambe down the road in Morecambe.
Wainwright, died aged 84 in 1991 having spent most of his life writing his famous “Pictorial Guide top the Lakeland Fells” a series of books covering 214 Lakeland fells, with page after page of intricate drawings and hand drawn maps.
His ashes are scattered at Innominate Tarn on Haystacks, the fell he said was his favourite Lakeland mountain. There is a memorial tablet to the writer in St James’s Church in Buttermere, below the fell.
Local mine owner Mark Weir has suggested a statue should be built on top of Fleetwith Pike – near to Haystack, and not far off the Coast to Coast Path. I can’t see the planners going for that one.
It is to be sculpted by Graham Ibbeson, who also created the statue of Eric Morecambe down the road in Morecambe.
Wainwright, died aged 84 in 1991 having spent most of his life writing his famous “Pictorial Guide top the Lakeland Fells” a series of books covering 214 Lakeland fells, with page after page of intricate drawings and hand drawn maps.
His ashes are scattered at Innominate Tarn on Haystacks, the fell he said was his favourite Lakeland mountain. There is a memorial tablet to the writer in St James’s Church in Buttermere, below the fell.
Local mine owner Mark Weir has suggested a statue should be built on top of Fleetwith Pike – near to Haystack, and not far off the Coast to Coast Path. I can’t see the planners going for that one.
Labels: Coast to Coast Walk, Kendal, Wainwright
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