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What a thoroughly fantastic day we have had. Great company, great driving roads, and great food - here are a few shots to start with :D

Huge thanks to Snoops for driving and scaring me half to death on the hairpins and drop-offs :D not with your driving of course, those roads are like spagetti :D

One of the pics below show a zed just making it over the humped bridge - quite sure he didnt know just how close :roflmao: and a pic at the end for uncle mozza :D awwwwwwwwwwwww!

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Glad you all had a great day looks like the weather was kind cracking fotos .Baaaa
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Glad you had a good time!

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What an absolutely fantastic day :drive

Great company, fantastic roads, stunning scenery, tops down all day………. HAPPY DAYS :D

Can't wait to do it again..... :drive

Enjoy the pictures…….



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Where's all the photos of you chatting in the pub?
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Badman gee wrote:Where's all the photos of you chatting in the pub?
No pubs but plenty of cafes, never drunk so much tea and coffee on a meet :D There are more pictures to come but myself and Gill are the only ones home, everyone else is still up there..
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Wish my plane had landed sooner would have been there .
Once again great pics
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maurice the martian wrote:Wish my plane had landed sooner would have been there .
Once again great pics
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I cannot take any credit for the pictures my co-pilot was juggling 2 cameras :D but you could have pointed your camera in any direction on that run for amazing pictures.


I was thinking maybe we should plan a run later in the year with a B & B stopover and get as many as we can, there was only 1 woman who got a bit miffed waiting for us to pass by the time Robert got to her, maybe we could meet her again with 10+ Zeds :D.

Maybe we could get the EAC to venture out :drive :?:
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Juggling two cameras !!!! AND a walkie talkie :roflmao:

Well, sort of hyjacking the thread a little - Hubby took his father sailing on coniston today on our hobie-cat, so i took Tess out today extending my zeddy-weekend and drove up to coniston water to join them for lunch at the Bluebird Cafe - lovely top down weather again :D


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Just got back after a brilliiant weekend,we have both really enjoyed it.We were
very lucky with the weather, top down all weekend,fantastic views,roads,and people.
Thanks to all involved Bill for route Jill for sweets and everybody else for being yourselves
and good fun.It was the first time we have done a weekend and stayed over hopefully
it wont be the last,never visited so many tea shop toilets in one day in my life!!!!!!
Will try and post photos later (not good with computers)
Cheers Brian & Julie
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Just to echo Brian's comments, we've just got home at 7:30 after a brilliant weekend, both Pauline and I enjoyed it immensely :D Thanks to snoops and Bill for the route and everybody else for making it a great cruise. We had a good impromptu cruise on Sunday with Brilie and Zed Carer, which was also a great top down day in fact the top didn't go up at all, even on the M6 on the way home. Thanks Brian for the directions to the petrol shop in Kendal - exactly right :thumb:
Great driving roads, great weather, great company - what more could you want out of a weekend? Thanks everybody. :cheers

Pics to follow tomorrow - too tired tonight :(
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Finally arrived back about 7:30 after an absolutely stunning weekend thanks to the people we shared it with, the roads, the weather, the scenery and the stars of the weekend - the Zeds who took everything in their stride. Our final start to finish mileage was 449 - still to work out how much fuel!

I'm relieved that the route worked out well and want to say thanks to Doris for supplying the Sat-Nav information and to Gill for sweeties. Nice to share the weekend with both old friends and new members who we're sure to meet up with again! I'll try and stay awake to sort out some photos (mainly of today) as I didn't take many yesterday as I was concentrating on the driving but even so I manged to miss one turn so everyone got a practice 3-point turn on one of Cumbria's narrow roads!
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Zed Carer wrote:Our final start to finish mileage was 449
About the same as us Bill, we did 465 :)
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We must live a little nearer 445miles for us, knackered :D
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Sorted out a few photos but can't seem to find the ones of Gill wearing her hat but might have another look tomorow!!!!

06:45 Sat dried off and basking in the sun awaiting pilot and co-pilot:
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At Brambles Cafe (highly recommended) after coming over Hardknott and Wrynose - Snoops managed to get a private parking spot so nobody could park next to Zippy.
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Enroute to Honister Pass on Sunday - discussions in progress about where best to park for photographs!
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The co-pilot photographers staged a sit-in so the pilots had to get out, clamber up the bank and take the photographs:
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Back on the road towards Honister:
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A gentle start to Honister Pass just to lull you into a false sense of ease:
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Zeds resting in the sunshine before the final ascent:
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Now we can start to see where the road is going:
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View from the car park at the cafe at the top of Honister Pass:
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Last stop of the day and (fortunately) the Zeds did fit when going over the narrow bridge - couldn't see the sides as the bonnet was way up in the air!
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Final discussions on what routes people were taking to get home and directions to a petrol station:
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A thoroughly great weekend - just need to fix a date for Hardknott, Wrynose, Kirkstone (OId and New) and Honister Re-visited Part Two!
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Fantastic day out, thank you all. Really enjoyed it. Just got home 8.30 this evening, after a mere 250 miles round trip, but then I only popped into Kendal today. Will get some photos up later, though I've not many as I could only take piccies when we were stationary.

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Pics as promised. The zoom on my big camera packed up at lunchtime, so afraid some of them were only taken on my phone.

The zeds at Dalegarth Station
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Puffer Train in the station
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Signs for Hardknott - I'm not sure they want us to go up here!
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A slight pause before it gets twisty
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How many zeds can you get in a passing place?
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Descent of Hardknott - looking along Wrynose Bottom
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Afternoon coffee, tea and cake stop at Brambles Cafe in Chapel Stile
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I took a couple of panoramas with the big camera, but I need to stitch them together yet to see if they are worth posting.

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Thanks for sharing all your fantastic pictures, the scenery and the roads looked awesome. :drive
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Great to see the pictures from Sunday - that road looks awesome too.

I think the "laughing" picture in Brambles cafe sums up the whole trip for me... and what's that on the table - oh pots of tea :D

Bill you will have to let me have the route you did on Sunday - is it a doable trip with what we did Saturday or too much for 1 day ?? would probably have to cut down on the tea stops I would imagine ? :shock:
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As promised here are our photographs, sorry there are so many but we did have a fantastic weekend. Some very similar to previous posts but that's the nature of a cruise. Thanks again to all. Hope you enjoy the photos and can't wait till the next one. :D

Initial meet up at Lower Sizergh Barn
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Lunch stop at Dalegarth Station
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Steep hill ahead
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Zeds comin through
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Robert T's Zed
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Snoops' Zed
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Mint's Zed
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Brilie's Zed
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Zed Carer's Zed
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Really??
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Rogue Citroen thinks it's a Zed
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The hounds wanted to join us
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Past Buttermere
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Honister Pass here we come!
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Token picture for you Mozza :)
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snoops wrote:Bill you will have to let me have the route you did on Sunday - is it a doable trip with what we did Saturday or too much for 1 day ?? would probably have to cut down on the tea stops I would imagine ? :shock:
I'll look at the route we did on Sunday and see how it could be combined with the Saturday run in a way that would make it doable in one day and send you an email. Might not be for a few days as I'm currently finalising the route planning for our Scottish road trip.
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Excellent photos - been enjoying looking through them all again (well, about the 6th time ive looked at them all again :D )

The scenary is just stunning!

Hardknott and Wrynose - AGAIN - :sunny :sunny :drive
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Hi,just a few from me
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Thanks to all again for a brilliant weekend in a stunning place
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More great photos, enjoyed looking at them all. Thank you.
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stunning looks like got to be on my bucket list...
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Thanks for the photos. What a great drive. Am curious about the sticker on the window of the Zd in the first photo (looks like a kiwi on ski's). Maybe my imagination. What beautiful countryside and likewise the cars.
Must have been a fantastic get together judging by the smiles and scenes. Cheers All :cheers
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kruisn wrote:Thanks for the photos. What a great drive. Am curious about the sticker on the window of the Zd in the first photo (looks like a kiwi on ski's). Maybe my imagination. What beautiful countryside and likewise the cars.
Must have been a fantastic get together judging by the smiles and scenes. Cheers All :cheers
They are great roads to drive as long as there isn't a lot of traffic but the Forgotten Highway from Stratford to Taumarunui that we did last year as part of our NZ odyssey was also a great drive - pity we weren't in the Zed!
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kruisn wrote:Am curious about the sticker on the window of the Zd in the first photo (looks like a kiwi on ski's).
I guess it does a bit. It's actually Snoopy of Peanuts fame. The car belongs to snoops on here. :)

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