Kinder Reservoir

The morning after the night before was glorious, bring sunshine with a cool wind. After another, but last, cooked breakfast of the week we decided to walk from the hotel up Kinder Road to the Reservoir and back in order to find some room for a lunch at the Royal before the journey back to Kent.

Kinder Scout is, of course, the site of the mass trespass in 1932 and today was very popular with hundreds of people enjoying a Sunday in the  great outdoors. We were following a large group of people, some carrying flags which I thought said "Unite Community" on them. I wondered if these were part of a religious organisation but upon searching the internet I can't find any reference to such a group. What I did find is a reference to the trades union Unite which has created a community group to include anyone who wants to join. Perhaps that's what this group was then? And that's them in the distance carrying on along the footpath.

We walked for around four miles there and back and so fulfilled the objective of having some space for lunch to help celebrate our other nephew becoming a teenager today. Pie and chips with a salad went down very well.

Soon though it was time to set off back for Kent and we were fortunate to have a good journey back, the brilliant blue skies turning progressively cloudier and greyer as we neared home.