Pictures I have taken
Friar’s Crag & Strandshag Bay. After our clockwise boat trip around Derwentwater, we had a break for lunch at Treeby’s Café on Lake Road. It’s a lovely eating place sited on the ground floor beneath the Treeby and Bolton Gallery, accessible either through the gallery or via the entrance on Lake Road.We then returned to …
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Day 3: The Clockwise Boat Trip Our third day in the Lake District found us taking a second tour of Derwent Water by boat, this time in the clockwise direction, to give us a clearer idea of the various landing points.By this time, we’d discovered a better route from the B & B to the …
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Part three illustrates our walk to Castlehead Viewpoint and the views to be had from that spectacular place. You can read the whole post free on Medium using this linkPlease 'clap' up to 50 times there (it makes the post more visible) and, if you wish, make a comment. The icons are fairly self explanatory …
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Day 2: The First Boat Ride.The first piece in this series was posted here on 24th July (you’ll find a link to it at the end of this post). I had intended to follow it with this piece within a few days, but life got in the way! So, here’s part 2 for you.Having realised …
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Derwent Water, seen from the edge of Keswick. You'll find the full article, with many illustrations, here on Medium, where the link will let non-members read the piece in full without charge. My non-writing posts will generally appear on Medium from now, as I intend to keep this website dedicated to my books and writing. …
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Photos from a visit to Fallingbostel and other German towns, using film, not digital tech, back in 1990. This short story was placed 3rd in the Ormskirk Writers & Literary Club contest in October 2004, and was also published in the small literary magazine, Ouse Valley Poetry, sadly no longer around. Enjoy! Manners and the …
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I don’t know what inspires ideas in other writers, but I gather a lot of my writing thoughts and inspiration from walking. I live in the Forest of Dean, so I’m surrounded by beautiful places in which to walk, usually with my wife. Yesterday, we decided to visit a local spot of significance, Symonds Yat, …
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Stuart Aken 