Posted by Adam Quinan on December 06, 2007 at 04:29:52 from 99.226.247.88 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: America comes to the Lakes posted by John Lambert on December 06, 2007 at 02:42:57:
While I often travelled a similar route to Ransome, from Leeds University (where I was studying) to the Lakes to visit a schoolfriend at college in Ambleside back in the 1970s, it was my 1999 pilgrimage that really brought me to almost "all things Ransome".
We stayed at Bank Ground (Holly Howe), visited the Ransome Room in the Abbot Hall Museum, found the Dog's Home, paid our respects at Ransome's grave, went by boat (electric) to Peel Island and entered the (not so) Secret Harbour. Then we stayed with a friend in Norwich and visted several of the Broads including Ranworth, and then to another friend of mine living in Ipswich where some of us slept aboard Nancy Blackett and we sailed her down the river to Harwich, the weather was not too kindly so we didn't try for Secret Water. All in all a marvellous trip, Ransome combined with watching the clouds obscure the solar eclipse of that year which we watched from near Falmouth and St Mawes.
Kanchenjunga had to wait until the following year when I and my daughter attended the TARS IAGM and sailed with Captain Flint (really).