After a few months of turmoil and uncertainly, no thanks to my company, we have come out the other side and off on a well earned break to the Peak District staying in a village called Winster which is lovely. We're about 6 miles from Bakewell.
Speaking of which, we visited Bakewell the other day, got to say I was disappointed with it, it was just another reasonably nice country town selling crap to tourists, of which there were many, even the Bakewell Puddings were a disappointment. I found them very oily. It may be heresy to say but I think Mr Kipling does a better job with his Bakewell Tarts!
We went on a really good walk on our first full day here. Five miles from Winster over to the next village, Birchover. The weather was glorious and the walk, to start with anyway, was easily signposted. It was a nice mix of hills some open land and some forestry. Ida loved it, 5 miles vast majority of which was over fields and woodland so she could be off the lead. Eventually got to Birchover (this was no route march, just an amble really) and found The Red Lion open for parched walkers, this as most of the pubs round here are very dog friendly. Another thing that pubs in this part of the world have embraced is veggie & even vegan food so we were able to eat here with filled baguettes & chips washed down with the local ale Birchover Brewery, brewed on site. it slipped down a treat I can tell you! Homeward from here was a little confused though Tara sorted us out and we were on the right track again.
Bolsover Castle near Chesterfield is an interesting place to visit, there some older ruinous bits that were knocked about in the English Civil War and an inner Little Castle, this was the only place dogs couldn't go so we took it in turns to look in this part.
We've eaten at both local pubs and been back to The Old Bowling Green for a quiz night for charity. It's what's called Wakes Week in the village, there's been various events going on but the quiz is the only one we've taken part in. It was all very friendly and light hearted, we finished about mid table from around 20 teams. This wasn't bad as most teams had at least four in and we were just two!
I took Ida on a nice little 3 miler from the village, quite steep up to the top of the hill from the village then we picked up part of the long distance footpath called The Limestone Way, continued on that and closed the circle by returning to the village across fields. Ida lead me straight to The Old Bowling Green for a refreshing pint of Farmers Bitter to end our walk.
Photos of our walk around Winster.
Speaking of which, we visited Bakewell the other day, got to say I was disappointed with it, it was just another reasonably nice country town selling crap to tourists, of which there were many, even the Bakewell Puddings were a disappointment. I found them very oily. It may be heresy to say but I think Mr Kipling does a better job with his Bakewell Tarts!
 Bakewell Pudding, very oily, I prefer Mr Kipling's! |
I took Ida on a nice little 3 miler from the village, quite steep up to the top of the hill from the village then we picked up part of the long distance footpath called The Limestone Way, continued on that and closed the circle by returning to the village across fields. Ida lead me straight to The Old Bowling Green for a refreshing pint of Farmers Bitter to end our walk.
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