Monday 1st September started a bit wet but brightened up mid morning at our Bolehill Cottages near Bakewell (see here).  Two departures and two arrivals and one cleaner here.  Usual Monday chores and everything ready by lunchtime.  Chris seemed to spend most of the day helping others with web site problems.  I spent the afternoon on accounts and  getting a room ready for our friends from Yorkshire who are coming to stay for a few days.  First guests here just after 3pm and second cottage here just after 4pm.  Catching some nice sunsets at the moment but soon it will be too dark to take the dogs for a walk after dinner.  Down to Bakewell first thing on Tuesday then jobs around the house until our friends arrived in the afternoon.  No departures but one arrival here later in the day.  Another pleasant day and after a few hours of chatting to friends we went down to Piedaniels in Bakewell and enjoyed their excellent value set meal.  We had planned a walk for Wednesday but it started quite misty.  Good thing about our friends staying is that we try and get out walking.  Undeterred by the mist we drove over to Ashford and had coffee at the tea rooms before setting off along the river towards Bakewell.  By then the murk had lifted and it got quite humid.  We did this walk last year and I thought it would be a nice one to get back into walking mode as it had been so long since we did a walk.  Just before Bakewell we crossed the packhorse bridge and picked up the bridleway beside Holme Hall.   From the top of the only climb we got nice views back to Bakewell.  We headed across the fields to Great Longstone where we stopped for lunch at The Crispin.  Afterwards we walked to Monsal Head and then took the path back to Ashford from here rather than walk back to Ashford from Little Longstone so it made for a longer walk than I had planned.  Although it never really brightened up it stayed warm.  In the evening we went to Carriages at Newhaven where we enjoyed another lovely meal.