Bewerley Park and High Street

Boys' Dorm

Monday 25th March - how exciting!  I was a little jealous not to be going along with them.  All 21 of his class were packed and mega excited and why not.  On the menu was gorge walking, zip wiring (from the top of a huge 10 meter high climbing wall), canoeing, a visit to Brimham Rocks, night time activities, lots of food including a cooked breakfast in the mornings, playing pool in the common room, sleeping in dorms and mainly having a great time with his friends away from pesky parents.  They all came home on Wednesday afternoon very VERY tired.  Tom could barely speak he was so tired.  Anyway it was happy faces all round, a good time was had by all.

Climbing Wall with Zip Wire

Morning Thumbs Up!

Whilst Tom was at Bewerley Park Matt and I headed over to the Lakes for a night.  After dropping him off on Monday we drove over to Haweswater to the end of the road where we parked up and headed into the hills.  We climbed a mountain called High Street - which was so high there was still snow on top of it.

It was a pretty hard walk - more ascent than we are used to with our 3 peaks and unfortunately one of my feet wasn't happy and a blister started to form - what can you do if you are half way up a mountain with a blister forming - grin and bear it - so I spent the rest of the day trying to ignore the pain coming up from my heel.

It was a lovely walk - took in 3 peaks: Kidsty Howes, Kidsty Pike and High Street.  We would have done a 4th, Harter Fell but I was in pain and we found a route down that looked relatively ok.  We were wrong!  It was mega hard going, probably would have been better to go up and then down on a well worn path - oh well never mind.

It was a beautiful and clear day - we got a great view from the top, across the Lake District mountains to the Irish Sea.

It was 9 miles and it took us 4.15 hours - as I said it was hard going!

Big mountains to climb

We had a room booked in a hotel - people had laughed at us because it was a motorway services hotel, but not any services, Tebay Services which is the best in the country.  It isn't just the services which are good, the hotel was wonderful too.  First of all you would never know you were at the services, it had a  lovely bar full of comfy sofas made with Harris Tweed, huge windows looking over the Lake District Fells, and a lovely huge hearth with a fire burning brightly in it.  The room was massive, we had a huge bed and get this - there were bunk beds in a cupboard - Tom would love it here!

Nice bobble!

Looking down over Hawswater

We were in no position to go out for tea, we needn't have worried, the food was amazing - and that was just the bar food.  In fact the restaurant food looked too poncey for us!  We were happy and I was mega happy that I was able to have my socks off for the whole evening as my heel was in a bit of a state!

The next day we had a MASSIVE breakfast and then headed home.  We stopped off at Kirkby Lonsdale to do a short walk along the river, then came home and started cake baking (me) WOSAS (Matt)  Was a lovely break - felt we were away longer than we were.