Lake District Road trip

Trip Log:
Members: 4
Start time: 5:00 AM, Saturday, 24th Aug, 2013
End time: 1:00 AM, Sunday, 27th Aug, 2013
Duration: 3 days, 2 nights
Total travel: 450 miles car drive, 8 hrs train journey (to and fro)
Total walk: 10 miles
Trip Type: Road trip, Trek/Walking
Total expense:
Around GBP 676, inclusive of accommodation, car hire, fuel, food, entertainment, tickets, transport
What went great:
- Road trip - as always the best way to travel!
- Lovely walks in Lake District
- Boating
- Cornish pasty
Bad: 
- Train got train while return
- No complete walk

Weather: Pleasant and Sunny

The road trip map:

Itinerary planned before trip:

Time	Where	Things to do	Fee	Notes
Day 1, 24th Aug, 2013, Saturday: South
6.36 am	London	Catch train to Manchester. Booking reference is 1953303600. FastTicket Reference is NJB7C7JK	Booked	Station: London Euston. Virgin trains.                                                                Coach: B Seat: 23 Coach: B Seat: 19
8.49 am	Manchester	Arrive in Manchester		Station: Manchester Piccadilly
9.00 am		Car pick up	£46-paid	Location: Manchester Piccadilly. Avis Car Rental                                                   Manchester Piccadilly 28 Store Street, Manchester, M1 2WD, United Kingdom 08445446080
10.00 am		Start drive to Lake District
1.00 pm	Bowness-on-windermere	Lake Windermere
		Lunch		Angel Inn, Villa Positano
		Cruise	£18 pp. Need to book	Windermere Lake Cruise. Cruise leaves every 30 mins. Freedom of the lake cruise-Round the Lake from any Pier. Valid for 24 hrs from time of purchase. Car park: Lakeside, Bowness, Ambleside pier
	Coniston	Coniston Water-Saling	Need to book	Coniston Boating Centre
	Ambleside
	Aira Force	Walk & Hike (depending on time in hand)		High Force, Gowbarrow Fell and Aira Force (4.2 miles, climb: 366 mts, 2-3 hrs)
	Ullswater	Watch the sun set		Via Kirkstone Pass
10.00 pm	Shap	Hotel check-in	£216-need to pay	2 rooms
Day 2, 25th Aug, 2013, Sunday: North
8.30 am	Shap	Leave hotel. Drive towards Keswick.
	Keswick	Breakfast		Filling Station Café, Crosthwaite Road. Abraham's Café, 2 Borrowdale Road (10.30am-4.30 pm), Lakes Bar & Bistro, 25 Station Street (10am-10.30pm)
		Derwentwater circular walk		8 miles around the lake
		Catbells		Hike
		Borrowdale		Viewpoints: Derwentwater Foreshore, Friars Crag. Eating: Lakeview Restaurant, Lodore Falls Hotel (12-5pm), Flock Inn at Yew Tree Farm, Shepherds Caff
		Buttermere		Via Honister Pass
	Grasmere	Dinner		Goody Blake's (also takeaway 6-10pm) (015934 35062 or 07888115071).
	Shap	Back to hotel
Day 3, 26th Aug, 2013, Monday: Central
8.30 am	Shap	Hotel check-out
	Grasmere	Breakfast. Explore the village.		Can do a whole walk around the Grasmere lake. Short picturesque walk. Stop at the famous Grasmere Gingerbread shop
		Dove Cottage (visit optional)		Will be part of walking around Grasmere. Add in a trip to the shores of Grasmere and the popular pebble beach at its southern end. Map downloaded.
		Lunch
	Rydal	In the footsteps of Wordsworth walk (depending on how one feels about it then and time in hand)		Start point: NY349065. There are 2 NT car parks just off the road to the west of Rydal.
4.30 pm		Start drive back to Manchester
7.00 pm	Manchester	Car drop off		Location: Manchester Piccadilly
8.15 pm	Manchester	Catch train to London	Booked	Station: Manchester Piccadilly. Virgin Trains                                                                 Coach: B Seat: 14 Coach: B Seat: 10
10.33 pm	London	Arrive in London		Station: Euston
	Home!

Cornwall Road trip

Trip Log:
Members: 2
Start time: 8:00 AM, Friday, 16th Aug, 2013
End time: 12:30 AM, Monday, 19th Aug, 2013
Duration: 3 days, 2 nights
Total travel: 700 miles drive
Total walk: 10 km
Trip Type: Road trip, Beach holiday, Leisure
Total expense:
Around GBP 600, inclusive of accommodation, car hire, fuel, food, entertainment, transport
What went great:
- Road trip - as always the best way to travel!
- Durdle door - lovely place
- Beautiful beaches and clouds everywhere in Cornwall
- Cornish pasty
Bad: 
- Car rental agency (Greenmotion) is outside Heathrow airport. Need to take a shuttle bus to reach to car rental outlet. Time consuming and expensive bus service. 
- Rain all the time on Day 2
- Tiring drive on the last day while going back to London

Weather: Pleasant and Sunny, Heavy Rainfall

The road trip map:

Itinerary planned for the trip (and almost followed):

Day/Time	Where	Things to do	Fee	Notes
Day 1, 16 Aug, Friday: Dorset/St. Ives
9.00 am	London	Car pick up	Booked	Green Motion Car Rental, London Heathrow Airport Holiday Inn M4J4 Sipson Road West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 0JU 44-20-81229265
10.00 am		Start drive towards Dorset		Airport to Dorset: 114 miles, 2 hrs 15 mins Airport to Dorset: 114 miles, 2 hrs 15 mins Nearest town: Lulworth. From Bournemouth - take the A35 towards Dorchester, turning left onto the A351 towards Wareham. Turn onto the A352 signposted to Wool then follow the brown signs for Durdle Door.
12.30 pm	Dorset	Reach Lulworth Cove	Free	Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset
		Durdle Door	Free	Lulworth Cove to Durdle Door: 5 mins Nearest town: Lulworth
3.30 pm	Devon	Brixham-Lunch		Durdle door to Brixham: 2 hrs 30 mins Brixham: Breakwater Harbour and Marina
7.00 pm	St. Ives	Hotel check-in	Booked	Brixham to St Ives: 2 hrs 30 mins St Ives Bay Hotel, The Terrace, Saint Ives, TR26 2BP
	St. Ives	Dinner		Seafood cafe-45 Fore Street, St Ives TR26 1HE. Ocean Grill-The Wharf, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1LG Book table: +44 (0)1736 794004; +44 (0) 1736 799874
		Beachside B'day celebration! :)		Porthminster beach
Day 2, 17 Aug, Sat: St. Ives
8.30 am	St. Ives	Breakfast-hotel
		Hotel check-out	10.00 am
	St. Ives	St Ives Harbour	Free	Gaze out from St. Ives's harbor at Godrevy Lighthouse, made famous by novelist Virginia Woolf.
	St. Ives	Head to Porthmeor beach	Free
	St. Ives	Walk around the streets of St Ives
	St. Ives	Coffee at the Tate Ives Cafe	Free admission
	St. Ives	Chapel of St Nicholas	Free	on a tiny peninsula of land known locally as the Island, sits the pre-14th–century Chapel of St Nicholas.
	St. Ives	Lunch		Porthmeor Beach Cafe
		Coastal walk to Carbis Bay	Free	Bordered to the west by Porthminster Point and to the east by Hawke's Point, Carbis Bay Beach is one of the finest in the world. Award-winning Blue Flag 2012 beach with safe bathing beach surrounded by subtropical splendour. 30 mins walk
	Penzance	Hotel check-in		24 mins drive from St Ives Guest Lodge Penzance, The Promenade, TR18 4LY. +441736366882
	Penzance	Dinner		The Dock Inn, The Italian Kitchen at Newlyn, Mackerel Sky,  The Bay Restaurant, Samba cafe & grill
Day 3 18 Aug, Sunday: Penzance/Lizard/Padstow
9.00 am	Penzance	Hotel check-out
	Marzion	Breakfast		Philp's Cornish pasties-Marazion- 9am-3.45pm
	Marzion	St. Michael's Mount		10.30am-5pm. Photo op only Folly Field car park and the Slipway car park .
	Lizard Peninsula	Lizard point		The Lizard Lighthouse. Ann's Pasties 9:00am-2:00pm mainland Britain's most southerly point
1.00 pm	Hayle	Fruit picking at Trevaskis Farm	Free	40 mins from Lizard Point. 8 am-8 pm. Philp's Cornish pasties Trevaskis Farm, Gwinear , Hayle , TR27 5JQ. Call: 01209 713931  Shop: 01209 714009
3.00 pm	Padstow	Lunch	1 hr from Hayle	The Basement, Stein's Fish & Chips, Rojanos in the Square
7.30 pm	WSM	Handover laptop		2.5 hrs from Padstow 52 Selwood close, BS228LF (Close to Hutton Moor Leisure Centre)
10.00 pm	London	Car drop off-LHA		2.5 hrs from WSM