Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Geo the Sarge]

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Lovely story Geo - I'm pleased to hear that you're in good health again.

Ditto

[Geo the Sarge]

I do at times use the Park4Night app, there are many others, however most want you to pay to really get full benefits from them. There are a few Facebook sites that detail good stopovers at pub car parks and the likes, some of which look really good and mostly they will charge a fee which you can recover if you have a meal or drinks there.

Have you travelled much up to Scotland Tom? If so where to and what has been your favourite place to visit.

I haven’t ventured too much South as the laws in regards to parking up are so different, however I have taken the occasional trip, mostly around the Lake District. I tend to stay clear of Windermere as it’s too busy and comercialised for my liking.

I’ve visited Tan Hill, the highest inn in the UK a couple of times and taken a wander to Reeth and Kirkby Stephen. The Inn does an incredible giant stuffed Yorkshire pudding. They allow camping in a small area at the back of the Inn for a small charge which goes to a charity but there is also ample park up spots there too.

I also like to visit The Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge and similarly they let you camp up in an open space beside the inn at a small charge which allows you to use their facilties including the showers. Both of these are real old fashioned dusky inns with the open fire going for those cold days. I first visited this place near the end of the Coast to Coast walk I did with Jack in 2010 (15 years ago!!)

I enjoy Pooley Bridge at Ullswater and have also visited Wasdale which is the main starting point for walkers looking to climb Scafell Pike. But my favourite trip was to Buttermere. The journey up the Honister Pass was as good as any I have done. The circular walk around Lake Buttermere and Crummnock Water is a delight.

Next up is the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland which I did last year, incredible trip and an amazing coastal route. It will take a wee while to complete that trip report though.

Geo

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Another great post Geo and so informative.

The restrictive UK camping laws are precisely why I keep my camper looking as un-camper like as possible. People don't seem to mind you parking the vehicle, so long as you don't have the audacity to enjoy sleeping in it.

We haven't done Scotland yet but we intend to. From what I've seen on the TV travelogues, it's one of the most beautiful places on earth.

[Geo the Sarge]

I'm still trying to find a way of putting pics up easily, Tony's method is good, unfortunately I need to find a way to resize as every time I try to attach a pic it says the image is too big. I will get there though.

It seems to be a problem with non android devices.

Geo

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You could email the pic to yourself, which allows you to choose the size.

[Geo the Sarge]

2nd test

Woohoo, success

[alanc]

Beautiful dog

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Yep, he looks as bright as a button.

[Geo the Sarge]

Wild Atlantic Way

https://www.thewildatlanticway.com


I can be quite impulsive and at times I’ll see someone post on facebook or whatever about a trip they have done and I get the urge to try it out myself.

I saw a post on facebook from a couple who had spent a good couple of months travelling the Wild Atlantic Way which I hadn’t heard off so I decided to investigate. It’s a 1500 mile coastal route on the west coast between Donegal and Cork. There is so much to visit and also the distance, I can see why they took a couple of months for their trip.

I decided I was going to do it, however I was limited to 10 Days so decided to just make up an itineray which allowed me to visit at least 2 places of interest each day.

Most travellers will do Donegal to Cork, however as I was taking the ferry to Belfast and returning by the same route I decided that I would use the first day to travel directly to Kinsale, just outside Cork which is the official starting point for the WAW.

Although it was a 270 mile drive, my thinking was 2 fold, I’d be driving up on the left side of the road, therefore easier to get the views of the coast and secondly, when completed I would only have a short dash to the Ferry.

I stuck to the main motorways, which although had tolls, were a delight to drive and the infrastructure was tremendous. At each service area you could basically live there. Everything you could want from a service stop, from Supermarkets and restaurants, showers and toilets to outside laundry machines.

A couple of stops for brews and to let Bramley and I stretch our legs and we arrived in Kinsale. After a wander around the town and a bite to eat we settled down in a car park by the harbour which remained quiet all night.

Whilst having my evening meal I got talking to a local and mentioned how good the service stops were and the astate of the roads being good. He said that the money collected from the tolls go directly back into the maintenance and upkeep of roads and service stops, not fudged off for other projects by the government.

Still having issues with preparing pics for uploading as there are so many, need to have a think on how best to do them.

Geo

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The WAW sounds exciting Geo, I'll have a Google.
I always try to plan UK coast trips so that the sea is on my left, I thought I was the only one clever enough to think of that. Lol.

We definitely need more pictures. I'm sure you will suss it.

[typhoon13]

The WAW sounds exciting Geo, I'll have a Google.
I always try to plan UK coast trips so that the sea is on my left, I thought I was the only one clever enough to think of that. Lol.

We definitely need more pictures. I'm sure you will suss it.

The Med was on your right

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I was driving on the right.

[typhoon13]

Far toooooo technical

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1408014/Carl-Warner.html?msockid=07dae07c82fa67be17aef58983416697

have found online but its behind a paywall , no idea how to get around that so will be next week till i post it up

disabling javascript sometimes works (and does in this case)


Carl Warner, who has died aged 92, was awarded an MC during the battles of Alamein when serving, as a doctor and a conscientious objector, in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

In 1933, on holiday in the Black Forest with his fiancee, Warner, a Quaker, had witnessed an unpleasant scene involving a group of Hitler Youth.

Back home at Liverpool, he then also got to know several Jewish families who had fled the Nazi regime. So when war came in 1939, Warner joined the RAMC without a second thought.

From October 1942 to February 1943, he commanded the forward dressing station of the 15th Light Field Ambulance in North Africa.

All casualties coming from brigade units and many others passed through his hands. On one day alone he dealt with 123 casualties.

Warner's complete disdain for bombing and shelling, his citation recorded, was a magnificent example to others, while his skill in giving transfusions and tending wounds saved many lives.

In April 1943, in Tunisia, he was wounded in the leg, and carried some of the shrapnel with him all his life.

Charles Whitlow Warner - always known as Carl - was born at Liverpool on April 10 1910, into a devout Quaker family.

He was educated at Parkfield School, Liverpool, then at Sidcot, a Quaker school in Somerset, where he was captain of cricket and football, and head boy. After reading Medicine at Liverpool University, he worked as house surgeon at various local hospitals.

In 1936 he became a partner in a general practice at Woolton, then a village on the outskirts of Liverpool. There, except for the period of his war service, he remained for nearly 50 years, until his retirement in 1984.

The work of the practice was mostly private, but during the worst years of the Depression Warner and his partners were sent seriously sick and malnourished patients by the Public Assistance Commission.

They worked long hours, six or seven days a week. Saturdays were busiest, because patients could attend the surgery without missing work. Cases of diphtheria were legion, frequently fatal; there were annual outbreaks of measles and scarlet fever, and many cases of pneumonia.

When Warner returned after the war, penicillin, other antibiotics and the foundation of the National Health Service were transforming the picture.

Warner also noted the changing attitudes of patients: "A culture of 'rights' was growing . . . and the NHS provided fertile soil for this culture."

Carl Warner, who died on September 1, married, in 1936, Jennie Wass; she died in 1999. Their son survives him.