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Cumbria way holidays and baggage transfers.

There are companies out there who offer Cumbria Way holidays and baggage transfer services. They will transport your baggage between your chosen accommodation leaving you free to enjoy the route whilst traveling light. Other companies offer organised holidays, either guided or self guided. These Cumbria Way holiday and baggage transfer companies will book your accommodation, transport your baggage between accommodation and provide advice, maps, guidebooks etc. If you are interested in any of the services offered I have compiled a list of companies for you to contact.

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Cumbria Way Baggage Transfers

LAKE DISTRICT BAGGAGE TRANSFER

Calders House, Culgaith Penrith, Cumbria

07485 657 548

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Based near Penrith, we take care of moving your baggage each day to let you enjoy the Lakes and Mountains carrying only your day sack. Simply book with us, and we will pick up and drop off your baggage along your route, whether you are staying in a Hotel, Inn, B&B or Hostel. We cover most of the Lake District, The Eden Valley and North Pennines. The Cumbria Way is fully covered by our service.

Unit 8, Mowbray House, Olympic Way, Richmond North Yorkshire, DL10 4FB

A well-established luggage moving service that covers many of the UK’s major walking and cycling routes, such as the iconic Coast to Coast, Cotswolds Way, Dales Way, West Highland Way and many more.

They also offer an accommodation booking service, so all you have to do is build your itinerary, choose where you want to stay, and let them do all the hard work for you.

Cumbria Way Baggage Transfer and Organised Holidays

Annette Hirst, Bob’s Laithe, Halton Gill, Skipton, N. Yorks, BD23 5QN

Brigantes Walking Holidays and Baggage Couriers has been used and appreciated by 1000’s of walkers and cyclists for over 30 years.  We have unsurpassed knowledge of the area in which we operate daily throughout the Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Cumbria, North York Moors and the Northumberland National Parks.

Providing package walking holidays which include high quality accommodation, daily baggage transfers and personal transport from/to our secure parking site in Kirkby Malham. All the walks can be done at a pace to suit your needs in terms of time or walking ability, and you can be assured that your accommodation has been especially selected by us to ensure the highest quality.

You don’t have to book a walking hoilday to take advantage of our baggage courier service. The daily tranportation of your baggage along your route from door-to-door means you only need to carry a small bag containing your daily requirements.

Cumbria Way Organised Holidays

Northern Guiding, 12 Cherry Rise, Whinmoor, Leeds LS142HJ

We run organised walking holidays on The Cumbria Way on specified dates. Our walking holidays are with a qualified Mountain Leader and with no more than 12 people in a group. The walking holiday starts in Ulverston where we meet the night before and finishes in Carlisle.

The walking holidays are 5 days, 6 nights and we we stay in guest houses, Inns and Hotels. All you need to carry is a day sac as we organise daily luggage transfers which are included in the price.

Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LT

Tel: 0131 610 1210

Discover the beautiful Cumbria Way on a self-guided walking holiday with award-winning specialists. Hand-picked accommodation, baggage transfers and personalised information pack.

Wandering Aengus Treks, Fellside End, Fellside, Caldbeck Cumbria, CA7 8HA Tel: 016974 78443

Wandering Aengus Treks are located right on the Cumbria Way in the hamlet of Fellside, close to Caldbeck village and have been organising Cumbria Way walking holidays since 2001. Offering a variety of self-guided route options to complete the Way from 6 to 9 nights. We also offer ‘highlight’ options from 3 to 5 nights, and versions which include ascents of Wainwright summits including Coniston Old Man, Skiddaw and the Langdale Pikes.

All our itineraries include luggage transfer and accommodation in country inns and guest houses, in rooms with ensuite or private bathrooms, and breakfast is included. We provide a comprehensive information pack with details and locator maps for your accommodations, the latest Cumbria Way guidebook and maps, and an emergency contact number in case you need to call us at any time.

Muckles Yard, Bridge St, Rothbury, Morpeth, Northumberland NE65 7SG

We offer quality guided and self-guided walking holidays.

Shepherds Walks Holidays arrange your accommodation, luggage transfers, route map, guidebooks, route notes and all our expertise included.

Sherpa Expeditions, 1B Osiers Road, Wandsworth London SW18 1NL Tel: 016974 78443

Sherpa Expeditions is a specialist in self-guided and guided walking and cycling holidays in the UK and throughout Europe. Since 1973, our leaders, local representatives and travellers have all contributed to the detailed route notes provided to walkers and cyclists. In the United Kingdom, our home base, find a pioneering collection of over 25 British walking and cycling tours, which include the Coast to Coast Trail, Hadrian’s Wall, Rob Roy Way, Great Glen Way, James Herriot Way, and of course, the Cornish Coastal Path.

The areas in Europe that you can explore with Sherpa Expeditions include iconic European walking destinations such as: Corsica and the Alsace in France, Spain’s Alto Aragon, the Amalfi Coast, Tuscany and Dolomites of Italy, the Swiss Alps and much more. Go wine picking on our Douro Valley Rambler in Portugal, learn more from our expert guides on a walking trip on the Haute Route, or enjoy ‘la dolce vita’ on our Italian walks. There’s much more to discover in Europe with Sherpa than you find here, please have a look at our website for our complete offer of 300+ holidays.

11 Via Gellia Mill, Via Gellia Road, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2AJ

Contours Holidays organise self-guided walking holidays along the Cumbria Way and on over 100 trails in the UK. We organise everything so you can walk your chosen route at your own pace, knowing that every detail is taken care of.

We offer a broad variety of customisable holidays, complete with hand-picked service providers and excellent customer service. Catering for solo walkers, groups, families and walkers with dogs, thanks to our extensive selection of itineraries.

Cumbria Way Guided Walking

Reasons To Go North Guided Walks

Alvina, owner of Reasons To Go North, lived her early life in Cumbria, hiking Helvellyn for the first time at the age of ten. She  has travelled widely through Europe and the Americas, spending time hiking in US national parks and the Canadian Rockies. Latterly she has travelled in Asia; Bhutan and Nepal. While working in Vietnam, she took the opportunity to climb a few mountains including Fansipan and Kinabalu in Sabah.

Teaching has occupied a large part of Alvina’s working life and on her return from Vietnam, she decided to base herself back in Cumbria, achieve her Mountain Leader certification, and work in travel and guiding where her true passions lie. She leads walks, hosts holidays and helps to introduce the next generation to the outdoors by working on the Duke of Edinburgh scheme.

Karen Royall

I am a partner in a UK based walking company, Wandering Aengus Treks, a qualified Swedish massage therapist and I also very much like to spend time on my art work when I have the opportunity. I am interested in creating movement and fluidity through patterns on a flat surface.

Using air dried clay, my aim is to achieve maximum optical impact by employing a technique of hand rolling clay into individual balls which, with the application of colour, create pictorial space.

The effect of differing light sources coupled with the position of the observer in relation to the piece bring about subtle yet altered effects of definition and perception.

My influences are the Pointillist art movement which explored colour relationships and the work of Op Artist, Bridget Riley.

Like massage, this meditative method of art soothes the mind, heals the body and strengthens the spirit.

The Song of Wandering Aengus Summary & Analysis by William Butler Yeats

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First printed in 1897 and collected in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), W. B. Yeats's "The Song of Wandering Aengus" is a dramatic monologue about burning and thwarted passion. Written in the voice of Aengus (a god of love and youth in Irish mythology), it tells the tale of a magical fish that turns into a beautiful girl and runs away. The infatuated Aengus wanders the earth in pursuit of this girl, growing old but never giving up his search. As a kind of miniature fable, the poem suggests how unrequited love—or any other unattainable dream—can both exhaust a person's energies and nourish a person's imagination.

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The Full Text of “The Song of Wandering Aengus”

1 I went out to the hazel wood,

2 Because a fire was in my head,

3 And cut and peeled a hazel wand,

4 And hooked a berry to a thread;

5 And when white moths were on the wing,

6 And moth-like stars were flickering out,

7 I dropped the berry in a stream

8 And caught a little silver trout.

9 When I had laid it on the floor

10 I went to blow the fire a-flame,

11 But something rustled on the floor,

12 And someone called me by my name:

13 It had become a glimmering girl

14 With apple blossom in her hair

15 Who called me by my name and ran

16 And faded through the brightening air.

17 Though I am old with wandering

18 Through hollow lands and hilly lands,

19 I will find out where she has gone,

20 And kiss her lips and take her hands;

21 And walk among long dappled grass,

22 And pluck till time and times are done,

23 The silver apples of the moon,

24 The golden apples of the sun.

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Infatuation, Beauty, and Obsession

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Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “The Song of Wandering Aengus”

I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread;

And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name:

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It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air.

Lines 17-20

Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands;

Lines 21-24

And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

“The Song of Wandering Aengus” Symbols

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Silver Trout

“The Song of Wandering Aengus” Poetic Devices & Figurative Language

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Form, Meter, & Rhyme Scheme of “The Song of Wandering Aengus”

Rhyme scheme, “the song of wandering aengus” speaker, “the song of wandering aengus” setting, literary and historical context of “the song of wandering aengus”, more “the song of wandering aengus” resources, external resources.

The Poet's Life and Work — Read a short bio of Yeats, along with other Yeats poems, at Poets.org.

The Poem Read Aloud — Hear a reading of the poem by actor Michael Gambon.

"Aengus" in Song — Listen to a 1971 adaptation of the poem by folk singer Donovan.

Yeats, Nobel Laureate — Browse an exhibit on Yeats, winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, at Nobel.org.

The Many Sides of Yeats — Read the Poetry Foundation's introduction to the various phases of Yeats's career.

Yeats Reads His Work — Listen to a rare recording of W. B. Yeats reading his poetry aloud.

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Published Apr 30, 2019

How W.B Yeats Captured the Essence of 'Star Trek' a Century Before its Time

On the final day of National Poetry Month we’re looking at how a poem from Captain Archer’s childhood matches the 'Trek' spirit.

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The Star Trek franchise has long tangled with the world of poetry. Eagle-eyed viewers know that Khan keeps a copy of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost aboard the S.S. Botany Bay in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Chief O’Brien and Dr. Bashir also show a fondness for poetry, reciting Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Dominion War. And, of course, what Star Trek: The Next Generation viewer could forget Lieutenant Data’s lovingly composed ode to his pet cat, Spot?

Celebrating National Poetry Month this April seems a perfect time to reflect on the use of verse in Star Trek , and to take a closer look at a specific poem which plays a central role in the Star Trek: Enterprise season one episode ‘Rogue Planet’.

In this episode, the Enterprise crew are exploring an alien planet when Archer hears a mysterious voice calling his name. He follows the sound, eventually finding a beautiful woman whom he vaguely recognises from somewhere in his distant past. When she abruptly disappears, Archer continues his search; but each time he finds her she vanishes again.

Towards the end of the episode, Archer remembers why the woman seems so familiar to him. She is not a real person at all, but rather his imagined likeness of a character from ‘ The Song of Wandering Aengus ’, a poem by W. B. Yeats which his mother read to him as a child. The character of Aengus also sees a beautiful woman who calls his name before disappearing. Aengus spends the rest of his life trying to find this “glimmering girl”, growing old as he searches through all of the world’s “hollow lands and hilly lands”.

Trip responds to Archer’s realisation by commenting, “Maybe that poem’s been on your mind more than you realize.” This turns out to be true, as it is revealed that the mysterious woman on the planet is in fact an alien lifeform, telepathically using an image from Archer’s memory to attract him. The woman, therefore, is not real – she is merely a projection of Archer’s own imagined vision of an unattainable love. As the episode ends, Archer is dealt a similar fate to the wandering Aengus, continuing his exploration of uncharted worlds in search of something intangible and unobtainable.

The use of Yeats’ poem ends up being far more than a simple plot device. It teaches us something meaningful about Archer and his drive for exploration. For the captain, the Enterprise’s mission is not merely a scientific one, but a search for something higher; something which, perhaps, can never be reached.

Ultimately, this idea goes beyond just Captain Archer and a single episode of Enterprise — ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ reflects the theme of Star Trek as a whole. Aengus is depicted in a state of perpetual wandering, always believing that something better is waiting for him just over the horizon, and this seems to get to the heart of what Star Trek is about. Much like Aengus’ search, Starfleet’s mission of exploration, which forms the centrepiece of the Star Trek franchise, is an ongoing one with no endpoint in sight. It also seems to attract those who are similarly lovelorn.

In Star Trek: Generations , Captain Kirk and Captain Picard both discover within the Nexus that what they desire most is love. Although the Nexus offers them the very thing they have always been searching for, they ultimately reject this ideal, recognising that it is not real. Like Archer in ‘Rogue Planet’, they are forced to confront the fact that what they desire most is unobtainable, but they choose to return to a life of exploration and, hopefully, discovery aboard the Enterprise, nonetheless.

Despite the potentially tragic implications of this, the beauty of Star Trek has always been its endless capacity for hope, and that capacity tempers the loss the captains face in Generations . When Kirk and Picard reject the love offered by the Nexus, they do so not with a sense of defeat, but because they believe that continuing the Enterprise ’s mission still has value and allows them to “make a difference”.

Likewise, Yeats never portrays the wandering Aengus as a tragic figure, but rather as an eternal optimist who will never give up. At the end of the poem, Yeats even has Aengus look to the stars, with the final lines describing what could be the spirit and insatiable desire of Archer, Kirk, Picard or any starship captain:

pluck till time and times are done,

The silver apples of the moon,

The golden apples of the sun.

Christian Kriticos (he/him) is a professional writer with degrees in English from Durham University (UK) and Northwestern University. He is currently based in London, England and has previously lived in Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Scotland.

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