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The Outdoorsy "Sofa".

Lovely few days away in the Lakes, canoeing and walking. Managed to BBQ both nights, luckily finished eating on the second night before the rain hit. We used to do quite a few mini breaks through the year, but not much in summer because of our jobs. We've both changed work now and I really want to make sure we do more. I don't actually love camping in the UK because of the weather, but think I'm going to have to embrace it more as I can't afford that many Air B&Bs at summer prices, especially as they don't seem to have gone back down after Covid. I've currently go a tent that's to big for back packing, but still very small by car camping standards and you can't sit on a chair in the porch and it's on it's last legs anyway. Hoping to find a bargain when the end of summer sales come about.
 
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Some great little bars in Santander. Opposite where the ferry port is, there's a maze of little streets with proper little local bars/cafes - great tapas. I spent a happy couple of hours drifting around there before getting the ferry.
 
A ghost story for bothy lovers:


I was pretty disappointed with it - don't know why though, these 'paranormal Investigators' are all a bit flakey and desperate to believe any old bollocks.

I've read that the original story was that the abandonment was a young family living off grid at Luibeilt, they'd had a baby and the Doctor from Fort William had come out to do the health checks and told them the house simply wasn't suitable for a baby/young kids to live in - and that they either leave, or the kids would be taken into care (not sure I believe that either - early 70's Lochaber had plenty of families living out in the arse end of nowhere (Sasaferrato ? - it's a house out between Kinlochleven and Loch Trieg) in not far off bothy conditions).

Bothies can be spooky places - add being tired, cold, flickering light from candles, noises from wind, mice, and deer and you've a recipe for scaring the shit out of yourself...

They didn't seem to be interested in any of that...
 
I was pretty disappointed with it - don't know why though, these 'paranormal Investigators' are all a bit flakey and desperate to believe any old bollocks.

I've read that the original story was that the abandonment was a young family living off grid at Luibeilt, they'd had a baby and the Doctor from Fort William had come out to do the health checks and told them the house simply wasn't suitable for a baby/young kids to live in - and that they either leave, or the kids would be taken into care (not sure I believe that either - early 70's Lochaber had plenty of families living out in the arse end of nowhere (Sasaferrato ? - it's a house out between Kinlochleven and Loch Trieg) in not far off bothy conditions).

Bothies can be spooky places - add being tired, cold, flickering light from candles, noises from wind, mice, and deer and you've a recipe for scaring the shit out of yourself...

They didn't seem to be interested in any of that...

Did you listen to the follow up episodes?
 
Did you listen to the follow up episodes?

I thought there were only two episodes?

I'm not going to sit here and say it was all a lot of old bollocks, but some of it simply didn't ring true - having been scared shitless, he returned with a mate, but for some of reason didn't chose to arrange his journey (train, to corrour?) to get there in daylight, or to stay at the nearby bothy, or camp, but to trudge in overnight and get there about midnight.

I was also surprised that having been brought up in the greater Glasgow area, and then his twenties in Glasgow, he had not a trace of a Scottish accent - I'm English, I lived in Glasgow for nearly a decade, and I've got traces of an accent or the way I say particular words, or the words themselves.. I also know that the bloke has been on some of the climbing/walking forums asking about Luibeilt.

None of that is conclusive of course, and while I'm a sceptic, I'm not a denier - for me it was just the host/his 'experts' lack of interest in whatever else it might be. They seemed to have done no research on Luibeilt, the estate, or Lochaber, or to have thought it unremarkable that yes, lots of people had died in a street in Glasgow comprised of hundred year old flats where perhaps thousands of people lived at any one time...

It was marginally better that Clinton Baptiste, but not by much.
 
A gap in the rain. It's been lashing down for 48hrs and is due to resume tomorrow. A chance to pull my finger out, be organised and get up at a reasonable hour for a full day's walking. I am lucky to have all this just an hour by train from my house. It's the only thing that's guaranteed to improve my mood.Screenshot_20221220-162502.pngIMG_20221220_134546118_HDR~2.jpgIMG_20221220_114248095_HDR~2.jpgIMG_20221220_113256090_HDR~2.jpg
 
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