Bakewell September 2017

As a treat for both the help she gave me over the past academic year and for her return to Nottingham for the new one, I took a university friend to Bakewell for the day. Said friend is a fellow mature student (significantly older) and half of her course is English, as is half of mine. In addition to having a pleasant walk up there, we had lunch - fish and chips, in fact - as then paid a short visit to Matlock Bath on the way back.

When classes start back next week, we're in a meeting together on Wednesday and in a class together on Friday.

Bakewell August 2017

I visited Bakewell for the first time since July of last year except that on this occasion, a friend came with me. I invited said friend to come with me after he'd been fascinated by my first Bakewell trip when I told him about it.

In Bakewell, we walked around, walked to some of the surrounding paths, climbed one of the small mountains and walked by the river for several hours before returning to Derby and then no Nottingham. This was a much better trip to Bakewell compared to my one last year, where I only spent an hour there, of which half of spent finding a toilet and the other half finding how to return to Derby.

Bakewell

Today, I rode, from Derby bus station after a ride on Indigo, the Sixes 6.1 to Bakewell, a town in Derbyshire. Here is a picture overlooking the town:

My visit to Bakewell was short, as it was carnival day and the town was packed; not only that but the bus route was blocked after I arrived. For a while I was concerned that I wouldn't have been able to have returned to my bus interchange in Derby; fortunately, the Sixes 6.1 returned and I was able to leave Bakewell. I will visit there again on another day, when I won't be worrying about carnivals.

The Sixes 6.1 is a fun bus route because not only did it feature plenty of beautiful scenery, it also travelled through Matlock and Matlock Bath, the latter of which I visited in 2012 and 2013.