Leave the kids at home

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Well here we are on a Tuesday with slightly tired legs after a full weekend yomping away. Most of you will know we have a small son, but as we were staying at the outlaws, we were able to call on some excellent baby sitting services and for the first time in a number of years, my wife and I had a decent yomp together. Bliss

As my wife comes from the Peaks we have done quite a bit of the dark peak so we went for a lesser known path. Starting off in Hathersage at the Plough we started off gently heading up High Low towards Abney and back around to Hathersage with views out to Mam Tor and Kinder. I love my son to bits but it was a great day as BC (before children) all our spare time was spent heading to the hills. The Peaks I find a little too busy sometimes but we were really pleased with this route only coming across the one group of walkers heading the other way.

Then it was back for a pint before heading for a stroll the following day along the old Midland railway track from Bakewell in sun, sleet and hail. All in all a weekend we get too little of these days, so we are already planning to head back up when we can.

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