Mappiman's Real Ale Walks

Good Beer Guide Pubs with Bad Opening Times and Lost Paths Cockermouth is one of the few sizeable towns that we were yet to visit in the Lak...

My Round at the Coledale  We had two walks planned from our base in Braithwaite. Both got us up on the fells. The classic "Coledale Rou...

Mellbreak-ing Bad The Kirkstile Inn has to be one of the best pubs in the land. But you have to earn those pints of Loweswater Gold and boy,...

What's in the Box? Final day in Cumbria and we find out where the bad weather has really hit. This is a soggy, muddy walk where lakes ar...

Stupid Spanish Sat Nav We were meant to be walking from Ash Landing today. On the west side of Lake Windermere. If I had been more aware of ...

Ratty No More When they are looking for a location for the next "28 days later" sequel, they could do a lot worse than pick Raveng...

Ford the Waterfalls More than 10" of rain over 24 hours in Seathwaite. Our only surprise, the rain stopped 24 hours earlier than predic...

Hunting for the Girt Clog  Hawkshead, the prettiest village in the Lake District, is all cobbled streets, narrow alley ways and little squar...