Grounded Traveler https://groundedtraveler.com Expat life in Germany and still seeing the world. Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:14:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 What to expect when walking the Cumbria Way https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/08/09/what-to-expect-when-walking-the-cumbrian-way/ https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/08/09/what-to-expect-when-walking-the-cumbrian-way/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2015 08:41:37 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3455 I’ve been eyeing a walking trip in the English Lake District for several years now. The time never seemed to be right, but I finally made a time to go do it. The cool thing is that my dad came with me. The trail was not exactly what we expected, but it was a lot […]

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]]> https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/08/09/what-to-expect-when-walking-the-cumbrian-way/feed/ 1 What we did around Keswick https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/08/02/around-keswick/ Sun, 02 Aug 2015 09:48:13 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3459 The end of our Cumbrian Way walk was the town of Keswick. Keswick, pronounced Keszik, is a tourist town in the middle of the lake district in England. It is a destination for tourists as well as a good base for hiking. As much as I enjoyed our four days of hiking (1 2  3 […]

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]]> Day 4: Rosthwaite to Keswick https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/29/day-4-rosthwaite-to-keswick/ Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:31:33 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3482 This was our final day and we knew it deep to our bones. We had accomplished the mountain leg the day before and two more days before that. We had already fully acknowledged that dad and I are novice hikers and we were sore. According to my map, this was a less scenic day as […]

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]]> Handsome Sheep https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/27/handsome-sheep/ https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/27/handsome-sheep/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:13:54 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3507 My father and I walked a portion of the Cumbria Way in Northwest England over four days (Read day one starting here). Sheep are an ever present companion on the trail as so much of the trail runs beside and through sheep fields. Sheep poop too, but that is less photogenic. I have written a […]

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]]> https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/27/handsome-sheep/feed/ 1 Kissing Gates and Styles of Stiles https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/25/kissing-gates-and-styles-of-stiles/ https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/25/kissing-gates-and-styles-of-stiles/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:15:48 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3536 Dry Stone Walls separate sheep from more sheep as they criss cross the Cumbrian landscape. Wooden fences and wire fences cut across fields. The land is divided and quartered, but there are always ways over (for humans.) This was one of the most fascinating parts of walking the Cumbria Way to me. We were on […]

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]]> https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/25/kissing-gates-and-styles-of-stiles/feed/ 3 Day 3: Dungeon Ghyll to Rosthwaite https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/23/day-3-dungeon-ghyll-to-rosthwaite/ Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:35:05 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3480 We reluctantly left the comforts of the Old Dungeon Ghyll and headed out to the highest day of our portion of the Cumbrian Way. There are higher passes on the complete way, but they are beyond Keswick where dad and I stopped. We ate our hearty English breakfast and picked up our packed lunch at […]

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]]> Dry Stone Walls https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/21/dry-stone-walls/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:32:09 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3519 When you think about the English countryside, what images come to mind? Sheep? Yes, of course. Beer and pubs? More town than countryside, but I’m totally there. How about this image of the rolling green hills partitioned by wandering stone walls? That was definitely in my head as Dad and I started out on our […]

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]]> Day 2: Coniston to Dungeon Ghyll https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/20/day-2-coniston-to-dungeon-ghyll/ https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/20/day-2-coniston-to-dungeon-ghyll/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:22:20 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3474 The first day of our Cumbria Way hike exhausted us completely, but we had heard from the guys at the pub that our second day should be easier. The woman who brought us heaping plates of eggs and sausage for breakfast agreed. Now that we have hiked the day, I would agree it is indeed […]

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]]> https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/20/day-2-coniston-to-dungeon-ghyll/feed/ 2 Day 1: Ulverston to Coniston https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/19/day-1-ulverston-to-coniston/ https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/19/day-1-ulverston-to-coniston/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:34:09 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3469 This was our first day walking the Cumbrian Way, so we really didn’t know what to expect. It was a super long day and crossed a lot of varied landscapes. It was also the learning day. Learning how to read our map and navigate with book directions. It was learning what a stile was and […]

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]]> https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/19/day-1-ulverston-to-coniston/feed/ 2 Food in Cumbria https://groundedtraveler.com/2015/07/18/food-in-cumbria/ Sat, 18 Jul 2015 08:08:01 +0000 http://ctrl-alt-travel.com/?p=3457 One of the great joys of travel is exploring local food as you go. My dad and I walked a portion of the Cumbrian Way this June and encountered a lot of great food. England isn’t particularly well known for its food, but I think that is a shame. We found a number of great […]

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