The Lake District

Our cottage

Hiking up CatBells

Postbox in the middle of the woods

 

 

 

Camouflaged

Town of Cockermouth

 

William Wordsworth's house

Village duck race

 

Although Franny and I still have over five more weeks of school, we did just have off last week for the June half-term. So we rented a car and drove north for six hours to the Lake District. It was really beautiful scenery, with green hills and blue lakes, and little villages. We stayed in Cumbria (home of Beatrix Potter and William Wordsworth) in a cottage in a tiny town near Lake Bassenthwaithe. On our last night there the village held their annual duck race: sadly it wasn't real ducks like we thought, but rubber ones that you can bet money on for which will make it to the end of the stream first. It was a great area for hiking too, and it was so nice to come home after a long day taking walks and visiting villages to such a cosy and comfortable house. We were in a very northern part of England, almost to Scotland. The landscape was different to the other trips to the countryside we've taken this year- the Lake District has mountains whereas the other areas we've been to have small rolling hills, and while we saw the largest lakes in England last week, a few weeks ago in Dorset we spent time at the beach. I think I preferred the Lake District's scenery actually, despite the fact that I normally love everything about the beach and seaside towns. But it was so peaceful and calm, and the lakes looked amazing to swim in when it's hot...which it definitely hasn't been in England recently- starting last week we've had pouring rain almost every day. The lakes also had lots of tiny islands that you could easily swim to from the shore, which I would love to do. I guess we'll just have to go back...