Shining Cliff Woods , Cromford Canal 15th Jan 2025

 After taking Meg for a walk I got into the car and headed out for a walk around Cromford. However, the A6 was snarled up with some problem, so after sitting in a queue for abot 20 minutes I did a U turn and headed back towards Whatstandwell, where I parked next to the Cromford canal.

The only difference between the other times I have done this walk is instead of heading out of the village for a few hundred yards of road section I went left on a nice path through the woods towards the unfortunately named Knob farm before turning right and heading across a couple of fields to join the Midshires Way.

The view from above Shining Cliff Woods

River Derwent

Cromford Canal

A pleasant walk on a remakably warm January day. 

About 6.5 miles

Dinas Dinlle January 2025

 For our 50th (yes 50 years) wedding anniverary  we booked a nice cottage in Dinas Dinlle

 which is just south of Anglesey on the Nort Wales coast. The cottage was no more than a couple of hundred yards from the sea which was exactly what we wanted. No big hikes this week but plenty of walks up and down the beach including one round walk to Belan fort (originally built as a fortified port and now a private residence) and then back down a country lane to the cottage.

Beaumaris (Anglesey) beach

Beaumaris

Most days we had the beach to ourselves

The cottage was one of four next to the farmhouse. We were the only ones there this week

The cottage behind the farmhouse

Range of hills on the Llyn penisula. Definitely coming back here to knock some of these off.

Tower on Llandwyn Island  on the souther edge of Anglesey

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A lovely, relaxing week.