A Lake District Grand Tour

Product Description

After his warm, well observed, unpretentious & very funny books relating his cycle rides the length of England & of Scotl&, Mike Carden has turned his attention to his back yard: The Lake District. He visits all the lakes of Lakel&, pokes into its most distant corners, & cycles over every mountain pass (well, he attempts to). Along the way he tells the story of Lakel&. He sees where poets wrote & climbers climbed, he tells of 'oond trailin' & fell-racing, & he hunts for golden eagles & elusive ring ouzels. He visits stone circles, castles & abbeys to tell the history of the people of the fells & valleys, & he conscientiously eats Cumberland Sausage, samples Cumbria's real ales & calls in at a lot of tea shops. With his twenty-year-old son alongside him on the ride (actually more often ahead of him, disappearing up a hill) & sharing his sense of humour, Mike's story of The Challenge, The History, The Wildlife & The Scones is definitely A Lake District Grand Tour.