It is a five kilometer walk to the top of the caravan parks and back from River View Pateley holiday cottage. Just enough to fill an...

After the seemingly endless months of snow, a blazing hot early May bank holiday seemed a heaven sent reward ay River View Pateley. ...

​​ We've pinched this title from a Nick Harkaway novel that this morning's walk reminded us of. Fog came down on the moors above River...

The schools shut. The roads half closed. The world was bathed in white. Our walks this week have been to the sound of crunching snow, the...

Scar House was striking when we set out yesterday. We were a long thin line of children and adults of varying walking speeds,...

The General and I dipped into Fishpond Wood this week after dropping the children off at school. A walk in here is always a treat for...

What better way to celebrate the end of winter than a walk through Spring Wood? The General and I took a stroll there the other day, past...

It was one of those days that made you glad to be alive. Nidderdale had got itself dressed up moody and sultry in dramatic colours and...

All those candles and throws miss the point of Hygge, or so my radio told me this morning. In sparsely populated Scandanavia, Hygge is...

'Painter of light' William Turner left a pictorial record of his visits to other areas close to the cottage like Fountains Abbey, Masham Mar