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A walk in the Lake District

February 25th, 2006

I’ve been wanting to post this for a few days, but there just wasn’t time – meetings in England, some customers demanding a lot more attention than I anticipated and on top of it all a broken webserver (hardware) that needed to be replaced before I could do anything. But now it’s all ok again, at least for the moment, so I can take a few minutes to tell you about our walk in the beatiful Lake District in the North of England last Saturday. I’ve actually uploaded all the photos that my colleagues took (can you believe it, I don’t own a digital camera) to my gallery on this site, so you can get an idea of what I’m talking about.

So we (a few colleagues and I) started in Carlisle around 9:45 and drove down to Buttermere, parked the car and made our way up a steep hill called Robinson. I honestly thought the climb would never end and whenever we thought it couldn’t possibly get any steeper, it did. Oh, and half of the group had wet feet when we arrived at the top, thanks to some parts of the path that had turned into marshland thanks to the thawing of several inches of snow that must have been there before. But it was well worth the effort – the view was spectacular and the walk along the ridge over two other hilltops and back down into the valley was one of the nicest ones I’ve done in the Lake District. We had some rather funny moments, like when Leon wanted to have his picture taken with a valley in the background and while everyone was busy taking photos, the background disappeared because a large cloud appeared. Seems like every time I go to the Lakes, I ask myself why I’m doing this to myself on the way up, then once I’m on top of the hills, I remember why… and the next day, I ask myself why I did it because of all the pain in my muscles. Anyway, the pictures remind me how great it was and I know I’m going to go for a walk again the next time I’m there. Which may be a while… the next trip is taking me to India and after that I don’t really have any trips planned yet. I guess it will be nice to be home for a while.

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