Awake bright and early again, we thought we’d do one of the lake walks to fill in the morning. The weather was sunny and our drive from Kendal to Glenridding, where we were to start the walk, was spectacular. As the roads were quite narrow, we unfortunately didn’t get the opportunity to stop and take any photos of the best bits. We did however get the drone out for a spell, so we’ll post that at a later date.
We parked the car in Glenridding and made a short stop for breakfast at a small B&B, before starting our approx 15km walk around Ullswater to Howtown. This has to have been one of the top three walks we’ve ever done. It was just so quintessentially English. We followed kilometres of mossy rock walls through the evergreen landscape. We met more sheep (and took photos of all of them) and marvelled at the wild foxgloves that grow prolifically around here. Cute wooden gates that keep the livestock in made way to new views of the lake where steamer ferries passed small sailboats and groups of kayaks.
Once we reached Howtown we caught the ferry back to Glenridding, then drove to Keswick for some lunch. Well spent, we headed back to our cottage for a low-key evening of blogging, washing and trying to coax the next door neighbour’s cat out for pats.
