tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:24:27 +0000http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)Blogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266570310198822Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:41:00 +00002006-11-04T19:44:47.366ZAs I explained before, this diary was predominantly written for myself and my friends. However, I learnt a hell of a lot from my Coast to Coast experience, and it seemed a shame not to put those lessons into writing somewhere. So if you've stumbled onto this site from Google, and you're looking into doing the Coast to Coast yourself, then here's a few bits of advice for your reading pleasure.Mapshttp://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/advice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266567363347808Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:41:00 +00002006-11-04T19:35:50.546ZSo, did you enjoy it?Yes, I loved it, although it was a lot harder work than I thought it ever could be. The first few days were easily the worst for general pain and exhaustion, but after about day 5 it got much easier. I imagine that this was partly due to swapping the hilly terrain of the Lake District for the much flatter Yorkshire Dales, and partly because we'd stopped carrying all our http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/epilogue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266564213051324Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:40:00 +00002006-11-04T19:47:05.536ZDave and I were woken up just after 6.30am by the kid in the tent next to us, but we'd set our alarm for 6.45am anyway so we weren't particularly bothered. We were up early as today was our longest day and we had to be at Robin Hood's Bay by 4pm at the latest to get the sherpa van back to Richmond. By some miracle, it wasn't raining when we got out of the tent, although it was looking http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-12-glaisdale-to-robin-hoods-bay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266559695436398Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:39:00 +00002006-11-04T19:16:31.296ZIt was a misty start to the morning, and we couldn't actually see the top of the moors ahead of us when we woke up. We had a cooked breakfast in the pub as usual, but I was getting sick of them by this point, so didn't eat it all. I drank lots of apple juice though which was nice. After getting a lift back to Clay Bank Top, we started walking pretty quickly along the Cleveland Way again. The http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-11-clay-bank-top-to-glaisdale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266556897079647Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:39:00 +00002006-11-04T19:16:03.936ZI was still tired when I woke up, and the knowledge that, at 10 miles, this was to be our shortest day did nothing to convince me to get up. But eventually I did. We had a slow breakfast in the pub, more due to the service than out of choice, then Naomi left for Nottingham. We packed up, and after almost leaving my phone in the pub, we set off, waving goodbye to the Chain Man who was sitting http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-10-ingleby-cross-to-clay-bank-top.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266550441998329Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:38:00 +00002006-11-04T19:15:35.293ZWith a 19-mile day ahead of us, we got up early for the Full English breakfast we'd ordered the night before. As we'd come to expect from Jane, we were provided with a veritable feast: fruit salad to start, cereals, cooked breakfast. The works. Here's a picture of us slumming it like the best of them:The camping, breakfast and packed lunch we'd asked for came to a grand total of £11 each, but http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-9-richmond-to-ingleby-cross.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266546636075608Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:37:00 +00002006-11-04T19:15:02.376ZEveryone got up feeling a bit delicate, but we were all in good moods. Naomi had brought up two smaller rucksacks with her so that instead of sharing Dave's rucksack as our day-sack, Dave and I could each have our own. We transferred everything into our new bags, and then set off, leaving ours and Naomi's big rucksacks for the sherpa van. As Dave and I were sick of bacon sandwiches (and because http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-8-reeth-to-richmond.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266542487936202Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:36:00 +00002006-11-05T01:39:02.276ZI woke up quite tired after not sleeping very well - I hadn't been able to get warm again after my toilet visit during the night. It turned out that I'd managed to get back into my sleeping bag inside out. That'd probably be why then. It had rained pretty hard for most of the night, but thankfully our tent had just about kept it at bay.Dave's girlfriend, Naomi, and one of his mates, Adam, were http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-7-keld-to-reeth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266537957743478Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:36:00 +00002006-11-04T19:13:06.070ZI woke up from my best night's sleep of the holiday at about 8am feeling much better than I had done the night before. We finished drying the clothes in the laundry, packed up the tent, then headed into Kirkby Stephen to buy some supplies. Dave bought himself a couple of walking poles and a proper knee support, while I found a chemist and bought some more bandages for my feet because the one I'd http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-6-kirkby-stephen-to-keld.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266534894729562Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:35:00 +00002006-11-04T19:12:36.516ZThe previous night, we had heard rumours that the fish & chip shop opposite the pub served cooked breakfasts, so when we woke up I went to investigate. It turned out that it did, but it didn't open till 9am, so we passed the time packing the tent up and chatting to the three guys who had set up camp late last night. They were also from Nottingham, and were taking the more-relaxed approach to the http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-5-shap-to-kirkby-stephen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266531368213892Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:34:00 +00002006-11-04T19:12:02.330ZHaving had an early bed the night before, and as we needed to have my rucksack packed for the sherpa van by 9am, we were up quite promptly. To Dave's absolute disgust, I finished off the Haribo for breakfast. Dave then cooked our proper breakfast, and by proper I mean bacon and egg fried rice - we'd got in too late yesterday to buy any bread. I raided our first aid kit for something that wouldn'thttp://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-4-patterdale-to-shap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266527574652397Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:34:00 +00002006-11-04T19:11:25.476ZHaving listened to it rain all night, we were relieved to get up and find that it was only spitting. Dave cooked us bacon sandwiches for breakfast while I stuck Compeed (fancy blister plasters) on my heels, and then we packed up the tent to go. Two 15-year-old girls dressed in crowns and feather boas were collecting money for the charity Coast to Coast walk they were doing. We gave them some http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-3-rosthwaite-to-patterdale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266523917158855Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:33:00 +00002006-11-04T19:10:57.483ZIn the morning, we packed up the tent and then we took on a Full English breakfast in the farm house. I hadn't been too keen on the idea originally, but Dave had managed to convince me and I was happy he did: it was a monster. A whole orange to start, then cereal, then toast, then cooked breakfast, then toast again. This, combined with the consummate camping and shower arrangements, meant that http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-2-ennerdale-bridge-to-rosthwaite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266516881782893Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:32:00 +00002006-11-04T19:10:04.936ZNeither Dave or I slept well on Sunday night, not helped by the fact that it was pouring down outside. Luckily, by the time our three alarms went off at 5.30am it had pretty much stopped, so we cooked some bacon sandwiches, packed up the tent and made the 15 minute trip to Richmond. Due to some pretty shoddy street name signage from Richmondshire District Council, we went slightly the wrong way http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-1-st-bees-to-ennerdale-bridge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266512335321693Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:31:00 +00002006-11-04T19:09:31.850ZThe first challenge of the Coast to Coast was the surprisingly difficult issue of transport: the distinct lack of cross-country trains (unless we'd fancied a 12 hour train journey via Carlisle) meant that this wasn't a simple case of driving to the start of the walk, then getting a train back to the car from Robin Hood's Bay at the end. The trains straight from Nottingham to St. Bees had the http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/day-0-getting-to-start.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33868636.post-116266508711320966Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:30:00 +00002006-11-04T19:06:46.716ZWhat is this?This is a diary of when we took on the Coast to Coast walk at the end of August, 2006.The Coast to what?The Coast to Coast is a 192-mile walk across North England, from St. Bees on the West coast, to Robin Hood's Bay on the East. Originally described by a famous travel writer, Arthur Wainwright, in 1973, it crosses three national parks: The Lake District, The Yorkshire Dales and The http://www.judas.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/jimmyjudas/coasttocoast/2006/11/prologue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James)