As restrictions began to ease, 12th April marked the return of 'self-contained' accommodation & outdoor dining in England, and, I thought, you can't get much more self contained than in a tent. So, on a glorious Friday afternoon I set off up to Cumbria. This would be the farthest I've travelled in over six months! Yewbarrow from the lakeshore Astonishingly it had been almost 18 months since my last visit to the Wasdale valley in the Western Lake District, when I camped out on Middle Fell before scaling Scafell Pike the following day. The sense of anticipation and excitement as I drove up the A595 western coast road kept building, even more so when the first sign for Nether Wasdale appeared! Turning off the main A-road, the narrow, winding country lanes, and tall hedges obscured the view for a good few miles until the road headed over a rise, and all of a sudden, the vista down the Wasdale valley opened up. Following the road for a mile or so along the lakeshore, I