Anonymous Member's trip report

Friday

When I was wondering what location we would be taken to for the mystery trip, I did not consider that it might be the Lake District. This was primarily because we were setting off at past 6pm (approaching 7pm), and our service station stop was in Rugby, Warwickshire. A stop in the south midlands seemed most likely to indicate a trip to the peak district, or maybe mid Wales. I was proven wrong.

We were given a coded message by Nick to help us work out the location in the car. This revealed that the location was to be found in the first paragraph of the trip email. It took almost another hour to notice that the first letters of each sentence revealed the place name ‘CONISTON’.

The car containing myself, Ranga, John-Jo, Donna and Sam approached the bunkhouse at around 2am. I say approached and not arrived because unfortunately the steep road up to the bunkhouse proved too much for our rented Kia. The car decided it was quite happy where it was, so we got out and walked the rest of the way to the bunkhouse. Ash managed to coax the car up the hill, where it was to stay until Sunday afternoon when the RAC man deigned to show up.