Day 1: Flight to Manchester – Accommodations and information Leave house 1300; Depart RDU: CO(ntinental) 2763 (1450), arrive Newark (1625); Depart Newark: CO 20 (2000), arrive Manchester (0740) – May 5. Cracker Jack and I laid over in Newark for 4 hours. The flight to Manchester is 6.5 hours with a gain of 5 hours…
The best trail guidebook we found was Coast-to-Coast Path: St. Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay (planning, places to stay, places to eat; includes 108 large-scale walking maps (large scale is a matter of interpretation) by Henry Stedman, the British Walking Guide Series; it is updated periodically. If indeed a trip is contemplated, begin with this…
The Coast-to-Coast walking tour of the Lake District in England was made famous by a retired accountant, Alfred Wainwright, who popularize the little walk by his now famous journal.