Peak District

Derbyshire May 2011

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Our home for a couple of nights... Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Inn...

A very windy hike from Castleton > Limestone Way > Mam Tor > Hollins Cross > Back Tor > Lose Hill > Hope > Castleton

Miche on the Limestone Way with Peveril Castle in the background...

Me doing the same...

The sheep were chatty...

Miche joins in...

Lose Hill in the distance...

Miche heading to Mam Tor...

Miche at Mam Tor

Miche at the top of a very exposed and windy Mam Tor...

Bracing...

Miche steadies herself below the summit...

Miche & Back Tor...

View back towards Mam Tor from Back Tor...

Not a good day for that just stepped out of a salon look...

Hope Valley Beer Festival at the Old Hall

Sampling the Old Hag...

Derwent Water Dam

Used as a practice site for the Dambusters raids...

Just in case I was tempted to bathe or wash(?) the sign warned of a maximum fine of £5...

Bouncing bomber's eye view from above...

Stock photo from the 1993 Lancaster flypast commemorating the 50th anniversary of the raids...

Tame & hungry ducks in the car park...

Ladybower Reservoir

The overflow was high and dry when we visited as Derbyshire was experiencing a drought. Still a slightly frightening sight...

Stock photo of the overflow hole in operation - just imagine being pulled towards it! There are some beautiful rights reserved shots by proper photographers on Flickr...

Blue John Cavern

Looking up...

Vein of Blue John...

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