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145 entries.
wrote on 24 July, 2021
What a beautiful study of coastal birds at Bempton Andrew! Thanks a lot. We were up at Thornwick Bay a year ago. It's lovely in that area.
wrote on 15 July, 2021
Hi Andrew . Love looking at your site. I am doing the Ullswater Way this coming weekend , parking at Pooley Bridge with an overnight stay in Patterdale. In your opinion is it best to walk it Pooley Bridge to Patterdale via Howtown or the other side via Aira Force then back via Howtown. Thanks
wrote on 1 July, 2021
Andrew, thanks again for one of the best rambling websites I have come across. Our Geology group followed the Millington Pastures walk today and it was a perfect guide to our route.
Excellent combination of maps, video and photos to check you are on the correct route.
wrote on 21 June, 2021
Thanks again for posting your walks and helping those of us less fortunate to know the Lakes so well. Have just returned from another week of walking in the Lakes and our favourite two walks were both based on ones you had posted...Nether Wasdale and Great Langdale.
wrote on 20 June, 2021
Thanks Andrew for your great guides. We followed one of your older guides up Castle Crag and did it on 18th June, so really surprised to see that you also did it again on the 18th. A lovely day for it, who knows maybe our paths crossed. Keep walking ๐
wrote on 18 June, 2021
I'm due to complete my 214 on Slight Side tomorrow (up via Lingmell and over the Sca Fells). Was just researching routes and happened upon your site. I've looked at a number of Lakes walks websites before, but not happened upon yours Andrew.
Stunning photos and a beautifully put together website. Thank you for posting such wonderful content. I'll certainly be visiting again.
wrote on 3 June, 2021
It was lovely meeting you both on this walk, (Mellbreak) thank you for taking our photo Andrew. It was extremely warm on this day but worth all the toil.
wrote on 28 May, 2021
Just got home from a quick visit up to the Lakes. On arrival Wednesday afternoon we followed your Kings How route ( Aug 2019 ) and wow what a delight that was!! Steep climb up onto Grange Fell but so worth the effort for some of the best views ever. We have driven through and past there so many times itโs hard to believe what weโve been missing out on before..
Thank you so much for the fabulous reports and pictures on your website ๐๐
wrote on 25 April, 2021
Hello, Andrew.
You are one of the nature and bird photographers who I follow on Twitter. Today I saw the tweet you posted titled: Robin on the same branch in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Do you have a website from which I can order a copy of these four photos? I would love to print and frame them for my home. I have a metal sculpture of an English robin which my grandmother gave me. It is among my treasures, as you would imagine. This grandmother showed me the wonder of birds when our family lived with her in my early years. She always fed the birds, read to us about them and taught us to recognize the birds who came to enjoy her garden Thank you for posting that perfect quartet of photos.
Sincerely,
Elaine Moon Balsam
wrote on 14 April, 2021
Hi Andrew, thanks a lot for creating this website! My family followed your Chinamada (Tenerife) walk yesterday because of the stunning photos and lovely description you have here. Loved it!
wrote on 8 April, 2021
Hi Andrew,
Just love the startling clarity of your photos, especially the birds with a blurred out background.
I also love the fact that the forward/backward arrow on the photos enables one to flick straight to the next full size picture without the need to scroll down the page.
Great site - love it.
David Glover Hastings Victoria Australia
wrote on 25 March, 2021
Great photos. Especially enjoyed the photos on your walks, and general Lake District photographs. Favourite photo, very hard to decide from a great selection, was a photo of Grisedale Pike. My favourite mountain in the Lakes.
wrote on 10 March, 2021
it was a wonderful to come across your website this evening with so many beautiful photographs of the walks that you followed from my Cicerone guide The Mountains of Ronda and Grazalema.
Many thanks for the thumbs up.
I wonder if you have come across the GR-141 and the GR-243?
These are two short, GR trails that both begin in Ronda and can be completed in a week of walking.
And both are wonderful.
The GR-141 describes a 6 day loop south of Ronda via the Genal and Guadiaro valley, in six stages. The GR-243 is a linear trail that begins in Ronda and ends in Istรกn, passing through some of the most beautiful parts of La Sierra de las Nieves.
Both routes can be covered in 6 days of walking, meaning that these are two complete trails than can be covered in the span of a week's holiday from the UK.
If you plan to return to the Ronda mountains I'd be delighted to provide you with walking notes for the route.
ATvB from the Ronda mountains, Guy ๐
wrote on 10 March, 2021
I received a Friends of the Lake District, Footpath Gift from my wife, and she selected your picture of Loughrigg trig point. That was our last fell walk before COVID chased us back home. I browsed through many of your photos on this site - WOW! I can virtually go for walks with your guides. Thanks!
wrote on 9 March, 2021
I moved up to Cumbria with my boyfriend at the beginning of March last year from London as the pandemic was hitting to live with my mum. We'd been spending the odd weekend in Cumbria before that but we've now been up here for a full year.
We started following your routes last summer in the Lake District and downloaded the OS app soon after. In November, we found a glorious route of yours along the ridge to the west of Buttermere and it was half way up the pretty steep ascent that we got engaged!
This year, we've become totally hooked! Every weekend, we find an Andrew's Walks route and either on Saturday or Sunday we go Wainwright bagging. We reached our half century last weekend and just love it!
I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the energy, detail, photos and maps you add to each of your routes. We have both fallen in love with walking in the Lake District and so much of this is thanks to you!
wrote on 7 March, 2021
Hi Andrew,
I'm an a-level student and this year we were supposed to go on a fieldtrip to the Pembrokeshire coast but due to COVID that's not possible. I would just like to thank you for creating the most detailed and wholesome blog, you have no idea how helpful this is and not only that but it's a pleasure to read as you track your journey.
kindest of regards,
Jasmine:)
wrote on 21 February, 2021
Hi Andrew, hope you're well. Love following your journeys when i can. Great photography as always.
wrote on 31 January, 2021
Your photos are amazing. You have just taken me on my favourite walk. The one I do in my imagination when I can't sleep!
I am now over 80. I remember staying at the Black Sail Hut youth hostel with my Dad when I was about nine years old. The Buttermere fells were always my favourites. Red Pike, HIgh Style, High Crag on the one side, Robinson, Dale Head and Hindscarth on the other, and of course Haystacks and Fleetwith Pike at the head of the lake. I waitressed at the Buttermere Hotel while I was an undergrad., around 1957-60. Returned with my two young sons and stayed at Gatesgarth Farm (BandB and evening meal back then) in the hot dry summer of 1976. Such a disappointment on Haystacks. No Innominate Tarn that year. Just a cracked, dry mud-flat. Returned as often as I could. Last time, with grandson of 11, in 2016 stayed at a farm just out of the village, and had rain every day. Couldn't make any of the high fells. Where I used to run the path round Buttermere before breakfast I now needed help over the rocky sections. Had to enjoy it as my morning walk and look forward to a hot cuppa in the village. Thank you for bring back such vivid memories by taking me on my favourite hike.
wrote on 3 January, 2021
Andrew, I've just read your blog on Catbells and the photos you have are absolutely wonderful. You really captured the day amazingly well. I had great pleasure reading through it and re-visiting your day there. My experience on Catbells has been very hit and miss. We have climbed it many times and we've had a mixture of the weather. Some good days and some bad. The most recent one was a wonderful climb from Hawes End to the summit and then round. It was a typical wet day in the Lake District but it didn't dampen our moods. We were loving every second of it! And the smiles didn't fade, even when the hoods went up. We've done a little blog on it if you fancy reading up on our story too, please feel free. Anyway, thanks again and I'm going to read up on some more of your adventures. Honestly, great photos! ๐๐
wrote on 27 December, 2020
Hi Andrew, hope you and your family are all keeping well and you have had a good Xmas. Just wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year for 2021. Have enjoyed your site so much this year, much more so because of Covid 19. I will be out and about walking in the New Year, your walks on the Yorkshire Wolds have been a revelation. They are not too far to get to from Carlton - Wakefield. I will pick my days walking on fine weather days just like you do. All the best John Wylie.
