Cumbria Auberges de jeunesse

Hiking in Western/Central Europe
You can get a flight direct/non-stop from Antwerp to Manchester with CityJet (formerly VLM) and then a direct train to Windermere in the Lake District, from the Airport station - platform 1. There really is little in Europe to compete with the hiking in Cumbria and no need to go to either Brussels or Schiphol. ...

Family week holiday to Scotland
Try Westmorland in Cumbria. Not sure if that's not as North as you wanted but we do the drive from Hampshire to Edinburgh/Fife a few times a year and that's where we always choose to stop. It's actually a service station so you won't have to go far off track either which is always a plus. In a good location ...

Moving to England
place to grow up - the Eden Valley in Cumbria - with good schools, cheap, not much crime, beautiful ...

Part 2 - The Adventure Continues..
Two days at home have achieved a full body scrub, a couple of nights of blissfully comfortable sleep, a cleaned up unpacked and repacked van and we are off in the morning. Roughly, the plan includes Ayr, Loch Lomond, Oban, Fort William, Loch Ness, Isle of Skye and ending up at Solfest in Cumbria ...
Posted in My month in a motorhome by jhanford

Oops
Spent a long long day driving from Fort William down to Solfest in Cumbria. Had 3 prangs! List of things to fix: 1 far side bumper corner 2 the bit that goes under the door 3 flue cover 4 grille cover 5 indicaor light 6 wing mirror 7 water tank stopper 8 skylight 9 door lock 10 door fix Could be worse! ...
Posted in My month in a motorhome by jhanford

Alicante
sky and 15 degrees after Xmas in Cumbria. Cumbria has been below freezing, even at midday, for some 4 ...
Posted in Sabbatical 2011 by Stevie_A