Where was I?

I was staying with some young people for a short holiday in a house about 5 miles away from home: the other end of Goat Man's lane. On waking I found I had not packed any clothes so decided to run/walk back home to get a change of clothes then be back before the rest were ready to go out. My son-in-law Jonathan came with me and brought his bike. We had traversed a field and just gone through a gap in a hedge into a further field when I released I had not told our host where I was going, so I went back to do so then rejoined him, this time going a slightly different way through a wicket gate into the further field. By this time Jonathan had been joined by Sarah with her bike. We moved on - the grass felt good between my toes - and soon started descending into a rich and beautiful valley laced with lakes unknown to me.

I was surprised that I did not recognise the scenery given that we were so close to home but figured that sooner or later we would recognise a landmark. I was barefoot but had my trainers with me "just in case" and decided to lace them to Jonathan's bike. Whilst doing so Sarah had moved on ahead and I then had to run after her to tell her not to keep choosing the paths that led further down into the valley because I knew we would eventually have to climb out of the valley and towards the left to get home.

We continued to see no recognisable landmarks. Eventually we came to a ledge where we could look down thousands of feet into a distant valley ending in an inlet from the sea. It was intensely beautiful. There was a man there who showed us his Ordnance Survey map of the area - I unfolded it and it showed the inlet we were looking at but nothing that I recognised. I realised that we had entered another world when we came through that gap in the hedge or later the wicket gate. Later we met a man with a red blotchy face who told us where we were - he gave a name (which I do not remember) - when I looked up at him again his face was clear and I realised that it was his nervousness that had caused the blotches. After this we tried to climb out of the valley and it was then that Alison woke me.