Manx Rover's Ramblings
Series 1 relives the feel-good exploits of a young-at-heart retiree who walked Wainwright's 191 mile Coast-to-Coats Path through Northern England's breath-taking countryside. Series 2 recounts the early life of an eager traveller who was fatefully cast ashore in the 'lucky country', Australia. Series 3 remains a mystery, so let's wait and see, shall we?
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 51
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Coast to Coast 11 Shirley, and her Patterdale fox hunting trophies.
Neither birdsong nor creaking trees are heard in that desolate place. A chorus of gushing waterfalls and gurgling streams is the music of the mountaintops.
That night, the long forgotten sleep of the …
Coast to Coast 10 a belligerent old codger on the Patterdale track.
The air was chilled and humid, the breeze strong and blustery, and the sky dark and low. Unlike the furtive mist that caressed the cheeks, the storm’s calling card was a shotgun blast of icy droplets…
Coast to Coast 9 Grasmere via mysterious Greenup Edge.
Ramblers get lost at Greenup Edge! However, just below this confusing ridge is the easiest walking of all the high-level sections from St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay, and is certainly something not to b…
Coast to Coast 8 tramping towards Grasmere on blister-free feet.
‘Good morning’, everywhere to everybody by everyone.
Often the path was a stony rivulet with runoff gushing around large boulders that doubled as steppingstones.
Gaelic ‘drumlins’, formed during the la…
Coast to Coast 7 dinner, bed and breakfast at Rosthwaite
Even though the day had been dull, damp and dismal, the walking had been exciting, the weather exhilarating and the landscape spectacular.
The Royal Oak Hotel, ‘William Wordsworth slept here’. Minestr…
Coast to Coast 6 over the mountains to Rosthwaite.
What lay ahead wasn’t suburbia in the greenbelt, but untamed mountainous country, made wrinkle-free during the last Ice Age.
A ragged ceiling of cloud hung close and dark overhead. All about, exhauste…
Coast to Coast 5 Ennerdale Bridge by candlelight.
The Keeper of the Keys boot fetish, and ‘Thank you for NOT smoking’.
A mist shrouded funeral as diversion from Guantanamo Bay style strobe lighting torture.
Coast to Coast 4 Ennerdale Bridge we’re on our way.
Arduous Dent Hill; tough and tiring - ‘If your legs don’t give-up first’.
Peaceful Nannycatch Beck, a bogus ‘Stone Circle’, a hoodwinked postdoctoral Eskimo and the welcome prospect of a suntrap beer …
Coast to Coast 3 St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge the quest begins
Shrouded in sea mist, Wainwright’s toes ceremony and a tramping Kiwi spiv.
Reflections of the Western Front, and Texel rams in lanolin raincoats.
Coast to Coast 2 St Bees with Cumberland sausage
Our two ‘Don’t let the old man in’ acolytes, ponder upon the ordeal ahead whilst visiting an ancient priory church and recceing the start of Wainwright’s path.
In the meantime, our heroes battle Briti…
Coast to Coast 1 St Bees here we come
Introduces two retirees about to challenge Wainwright’s internationally renowned Coast to Coast Path.
Our ‘grey nomad’ heroes are experienced day walkers, however this 191 mile, three-week adventure i…