Inn Way to the Lake District, (Day 3 of 3)
With my thanks again to Pete for taking and providing the photos of the section between Boot and the Coniston Inn. (See 2nd gallery below). Indeed a big THANK YOU to all the guys for a wonderful few days in the Lakes. It couldn’t have gone better! Cheers! 🍺🍺👍👍😊
Buttermere to Boot
Boot to Coniston
Wow, wow WOW! 👍🏽
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Yay! A new series of walk abouts!
I purposefully waited until you posted all of the trip before looking at it, and also chose a time when David and I could look at it together via a shared screen in Discord. He’s taken many a walk in the Lake District.
Sure enough he was able to tell exactly where you were just by looking at the beer draw handles at the pub that’s the header for your first post. From there he was “that’s this…” and “oh that’s …” He stumbled on one photo, and I pointed out, “There’s a caption down below that says where it is…” He was surprised. He hadn’t noticed the captions. That made ME surprised because up until then he had accurately “guessed” where each shot was taken. 🙂
We were giggling at the number of grinning shots over food and beer. He said those walks are always primary, with a secondary pub crawl. I questioned that, wondering if the primary isn’t the pub crawl, with the walk being incidental. 🙂 :thinking: The photo tour was making him itchy to get out and do some walking, whereas me with the metal knees was cringing at some of the steep, rocky bits. I decided since a pub crawl was part of the deal, and those are accessible by car, that in our adventures I will drop him off at a pub on the start end of the walk, drive to the end point, and wait for him at the lovely pub of choice. 🙂
Thank you for sharing your trip and providing us with a very enjoyable afternoon looking at your wonderful photos and discussing the whole thing.
I don’t think you’re allowed to drive to the pubs, Mike, there’s some manly man rule-thingie going on with the walking stuff. (laughing… I joke)
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As long as you don’t drive after visiting the pub(s), assuming you partake of the fine ales on offer, then that’s fine! Many years ago, one of the guys in the office in York used to organise a regular mini-bus trip around 5 or 6 pubs. The driver never drank (anything other than Coke or whatever) and the other11 had a pint ofreal ale in every pub. I’ll name no names of course, but ‘some people’ might be extra thirsty and sneak another one or two in en route. We’d almost always finish in a village with a ‘chippie’ (ask David if you don’t get that) before being driven back and dropped off near our homes. The whole thing started in 1976 or ’77 (which is when I first started working in York) and went on for many years. They had well over 40 trips to my knowledge and on the 40th we all had to wear something red to celebrate our Ruby anniversary! And we sang “Ruby Tuesday” and “Ruby don’t take your love to town” along the way. Boys will always be boys!!
What a fun story!
Of course I know what a chippie is. Chippies are like my reason for moving to the UK! (David knows this… It is our cat, chippies, David…) I even posted about the glorious, spiritual experience of the Anstruther Fish Bar and Restaurant. It is my goal to do my own personal search for the island’s best fish and chips. 🙂
As to designated driver… les sigh. My ex was a beer connoisseur, and a damned good home brewer. So when we’d do the West Coast drive (USA) to so many brew pubs? I always had to drive, which meant little if any beer. Ditto Bavaria. Ditto Ireland. grumble. The one time I was NOT designated driver was at the Bushmill’s distillery! I don’t know if they still do the tasting pours there, but *that* time *he* had to drive! 😀
OK – so the ‘trick’ is to stay in a small town or village, where they have lots of real ale pubs. The key thing is that the pubs need to be very close together and then you can walk/stagger from one bar to the next and never need to drive! There must be loads of towns and villages that fall into that category (and most would have a chippie for sure). I’m now trying to think of some good examples… Alnwick for one, which is just down the east coast main railway line from Edinburgh, (special ticket offers often available). York is another (also on that same east coast line, but probably more expensive to stay…🤔) – indeed you could spend a week there and still find a different route every night! 🍺🍺👍😊
Great photos
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Looks like a great time was had by all Mike! And fantastic weather! Nice to see Black Sail Hut, stopped there many years ago 😀
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Yes, it couldn’t have gone better. I’ve never stopped at the Black Sail hut but I’ve been past it about 3 times – once on the Coast to Coast (many years ago), once on another walk with my mates, but going the other way from Wasdale to Buttermere and this time. As we descended into Wasdale we met 2 middle aged guys from Cornwall, who had never been to the Lakes before and were staying in the hut. They said they were completely blown away by the beauty of the Lakes, citing Elterwater as an example of where they’d been and seen. I’m not sure what they would have made of the hut and its location.
Alittlebitoutoffocus 
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