Heron fishing at a Carlisle weir.

Ps thanks for all your comments. And gems of information/stories etc.

How much will the tooth fairy pay???

A Google special .

It was only for a mile or so.

A chance for loong to have some knot practice

St bees school

Pupils in Rowan Atkinson

toothy day

Today we cycled 56 miles from St Bees to Weatheral. A luxurary today we had a lie in before cycling to the local priory church for tea and cakes a treat. After a nice snack we set off a 11:30 to a salow start. Our first stop was at Workington at a cafe where we had egg Benedicts I was allowed it because dad said it had been ages since I had egg. That was second breakfast so next we headed on and literally every junction we came to Dad had to stop to check the map for directions rather annoying. We got on a very nice piece of road before I realised my tooth was coming out. Next thing we knew the road wasn't road was horrible it went on for a long time I was working on my tooth and surprisingly in one day it came out. Its not much but it sort of special to have a tooth come out on this trip I suppose (I hope the tooth fairy gives me money on this trip) any way we finally arrived at Wetharal through Carlisle and as tommorow is another free day dad came up with a new idea to not do a post tommorow but we will try to answer any questions on the blog. So see you on Saturday.

St bees priory

Monastic college in other half.

Interesting boat

Not sure of it purpose.
Drug smuggling perhaps?

Take a back bearing and you will know where we are.

day 26

Today we cycled 50 miles from Rampside to St Bees. Bees. We set off at 9:30 and cycled into Barrow in Furness here we went to the dock museum. It was closed so we went to see two warships being refuelled near there and get a coffee at a nearbye cafe. After a break there we cycled to muesuem which was now open. The muesuem was really good it had a dock section and a history of Barrow section. There was so much, so many ship models and pictures we also thought. We couldn't spend long there so we left to cycle on we saw a brick factory along the way and dad made his usual comentrs about things like that. Our first stop was after about 15 miles where I had a hot dog and dad had a burger. Then we came to our first proper hill in ages! Thank god in a way. It felt quite big but that's probably because we weren't used to it any more any way the veiw at the top was amazing and we didn't feel the cold and the down hill was even better it was a really good one it wasn't to steep or gravelly so we didn't need to brake and we wizzed down it. At the other side it was 18miles (we had a bit before I the hill). We stopped next at a cafe run by a funny lady but cycled on in the end to St Bees. Here we had a bit of trouble finding our caravan owned by Janet but find it we did. We had a shower then walked to the local hotel for dinner and surprisingly the had a history of St Bees which was interesting. And that was finally and other day with a hill.

PS: I didn't have wifi to post yesterdays one I do now and I say thank you to Jane who put us up last night now we're having second breakfast at a cafe in Workington

Tea and cakes at the priory St bees

Hope this makes Loong jealous.
Hello Granny.
Inc fruit salad. !
Www.stbees.org.uk
24th best coastal village to live in.

Bikes inside at Just to eat cafe (OUT OF RAIN) Barrow in Furness

Corvette s

Barrow in Furness

Good reason not to over do it.

Not even top of climb.

One for David S.

Dock museum barrow.

Brickworks Coming out of barrow.

Lake district. (West)

Drigg Station cafe

A great one off! A must if passing.

Found a bigger disco ball !!!!!

Rampside

Fixed light for shipping and life boat.
Near Piel island yet another gem we do not have time for.

Sea monster. Blackpool

Wonder what it's for?. ...any ideas?

Canal turn .Carnforth

Arnside station

View of salt marshes from train

Arnside to Ulverston a very picturesque line at that point.

Tracey.

They gave lewis a free sausage roll and sheltered us while we put on our rain gear. Cake and tea were good to.

Ferry :-fleetwood

Best village. Lancashire

World largest disco ball.

WHY.......JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN.
(Anything to get into the guniness book of records)
Loads of fascinating art on the 8 mile or so premenarde a Blackpool.  Great ride.

Ulverston

Stan laurel nearby. World famous museum closed by the time we turned up.

day of the flies

Today we cycled 60 miles from St Annes to Rampside. We set off at 9:15 to Blackpool and went all the way along the front. At Blackpool dad stopped at Pound land to get sweets and batteries for his torch which is now working. We cycled on to get to the Fleetwood ferry and took it across to Knott end where we had a massive shared breakfast. After breakfast was the torment. We got to a road and along it the flies were every were I was so lucky to have my buff and glasses on, dad wasn't they were flying in all directions but dad got loads in his ears and all over his face for him it was horrible and it went on for 2 to 3 miles before fully ending.

Our next stop was at mobile cafe where the ladies there who were about to close gave me a free hot dog which cheered me up. We were on the outskirts of Lancaster and came in across the mini Millennium bridge there which cut off a bit of the ride. We cycled another 30 miles partly along Lancaster canal and saw no locks we were very suprised. We arrived at Arnside and took the train to Ulveston and cycled looking for b&b's we came to a place and the man running it let us use his wifi to find a place where we are now at. Right now after dinner I'm sitting here as I'm to full to move and that was today.

day 24

Today we cycled 35 miles from Southport to St Annes. Today saadly we said goodbye to Loong after breakfast at MacDonald's as it was the closest place. We helped to pack up the tent and set off at 8:45 leaving loong to wander about the town. Our first stop was at a bike shop on the way which dad wanted to go to as his speedo wasn't working and wanted to put on his bell. So we stopped there and dad in the end had to buy a new speedo 30 quid buuuttt in the end after all that karfuffle dad put back the old battery in the old speedo and it worked! So we wasted a lot of time there but dad now want to put the old one on mine as he now has a knew one.

Our first stop was in Preston at the green frog roadside cafe there we had brunch and set off again it was only 14 miles and it past like a blur. We arrived at 13:40 ish at Joe's house and had a tea before he took us to the black pool tower. The whole of Blackpool seems like a new country I thought it almost seems foreign. The tower seems just like the Iefael tower and it's expensive I thought. Our main thing was the pleasure beach which we went in after five as it's a little bit cheaper. In side in really big the first place we went to was nickelodeon world where there were some really fun rides we went on including the highest rollercoaster in the UK but cutting to the chase we went on the rise called the mouse. It isn't anything like it's name it rickety, rocky, jercky and feels like your going to go over the edge. The reason we went last on it was because a long time ago my gran went on that ride and ended up on the floor of the car at the end off the ride. Any way, dad almost lost his glasses we were going down one section when the flew off his head! Luckily it was almost time to close for that ride so the men went under the tracks to get it for us, phew! Joe picked us outside at 7pm and took us for dinner and now we're having a nice adult conversation at his house which I'm not paying attention to.

This actually 'granny's bay' Lytham St Annes

Posh trams these days. Very nice.

The tower....

In a different country. ...?

Tip......This was the winner.

Selfie on mouse.

With glasses.
Ps they were retrieved.

Granny's favourite ride?

Full of incident ...Dad managed to loose his glasses on one of the fast decents.

The road ahead.

Note the Cumbrian hills... In the distance.

Top of Blackpool Tower.

Old day wind turbine!

Lytham St Annes.
Plus we saw high water.

Camping at Southport District Scout headquarters

Southport (waterside lodge)
Yes it rained overnight again.

Who saw Blackpool first?

Lewis and Dwight as we cycled to St Anne's.
As Loong was walking to  the end of the pier
View is from Southport pier. (Taken by Loong)

day 23

Soooo, before we start today I'm saying that we slept in a tent last night that loong bought and it's been ages since I slept in that tent. We set off at 5:46 really early! Firstly we cycled to Flint and we sat outside the town hall and ate some stuff bought from yesterday after that we crossed over the river Dee bridge and came eventually to an MOD firing range. We had a ferry across the river Mersey and on the other side they we're having a parade! There the main things were three string puppets a granny, girl and a dog although we didn't manage to see the dog. After that excitement we had our first proper breakfast at a cafe.

After breakfast we went to the Cavern club which hosted the Beatles there you could walk downstairs to it and see everything and also get a drink. Next we went to apparently a famous photographers house called Edward Shambre Hardman who we didn't know anything about. The last thing to see at Liverpool was the Grand National horse racecourse there were some competitions going on for the horse riders and those were nice to watch. We got to Southport by a torturous NCN route as usual but managed to get there in good time. Tonight we watched a movie at a view cinema! One of the new ones called Hercules which we all thought was really good. So we're staying in tent again tonight in a scout club place on there green by a river so now we've just finished dinner and are going to put up the tent. Night

National trust . Liverpool

The closed..... Edward hHardmans house. It sounded good and looked a fine house on the outside.

Royal box.

Aintree.  Where were the hats?

Southport beach with pier.

Also the end of the trans pennine trail.
We hope too go via Scotland to reach the other end in Hull. September !!.

Afternoon tea Southport style

Just in time to see..

Giantspectacular.com  leaving town

The peleton arrives in Liverpool in style.