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DESTINATIONS PEAK DISTRICT | UK & IRELAND


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s I place my feet down carefully, testing out whether


the lump of rock I’m about to step on is stable, I can see my five-year-old’s blonde curls bouncing as he merrily careers down the slope ahead. I see him pause and assess


two possible routes – one down a gloopy muddy path, the other over a collection of jagged limestone chunks. Normally, I’d shout and ask him to stop and wait for me. But I resist as he’s surrounded by children who are all helping each other out, offering tips on the best places to bottom slide and holding


their hands out for the smallest members of the group. We’d just taken a detour on a seven-mile walk in the Peak District’s Dovedale with HF Holidays. After our guide, Malcolm, joked to the children about the possibility of spotting bears, we’d scrambled up to Reynard’s Cave through the enormous limestone Reynard’s Arch.


NATURAL ATTRACTIONS In less than three miles, we’d already seen a shimmering iridescent rainbow perfectly framing the strangely symmetrical Thorpe Cloud hill, spotted


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