Sunday 2 October 2022
Bikes, boats and Bollywood
Off out for a short walk in the hills above Bakewell today. Sundays seem to be busier and busier. On the drive to Bakewell, we saw a cycle club out for a mass ride, motorcyclists streaming towards Matlock, kayakers braving the perils of the river Derwent and finally a Bollywood film crew filming a car chase in Bakewell, getting in the way of absolutely everyone.
Yet as soon as we were away from it all in the hills, we saw nobody at all apart from a woman walking her two dogs. All was peace and quiet until we reached Monsal Trail and a café where we enjoyed a coffee and a scone.
Even now, it still surprises me how easy it is to get away from crowds. It shouldn't but it does. A mile or two, a bit of a climb and that’s it. When we arrived back in Bakewell, the film bods were still trying to get that car chase right and still making a nuisance of themselves. Strange world.
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We used to love rambling in the New Forest. It seemed that most people didn't want to stray more than a couple of hundred yards from their cars. Accordingly we'd come across few people but plenty of ponies, cows, deer, and pigs.
(Big bugger, the modern pig, ain't she?)
dearieme - we see mostly cows, sheep and rabbits. A few ponies but hardly any pigs in the areas where we walk. A few bulls, but unlike cows they seem to take no notice of walkers.
Life’s one adventure after another, AKH.
I have often thought that the answer to overcrowding at any tourist destination is simply to put the car parks further away.
James - it's an antidote to politics.
Peter - good idea - and they wouldn't have to be much further away to cut down the numbers.
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