On the road again… to the Lake District

After yesterdays excitement (ha!) we thought we were entitled to a nice lie in, but unfortunately this was not to be as a long drive lay ahead of us as we made our way to the Lake District. We packed up, fixed both brekki and our lunch for the journey and head off. As we packed up the car the heavens opened and there was an almighty downfall of torrential rain, it was crazy! We just had to run a few meters across the road to the car and in this time got completely drenched, but it made us laugh. You have to learn to love the rain or you’d never do anything in this place!

The drive to the Lake District was uneventful thankfully, fairly easy to navigate and not such bad roads for Chris to drive. As we drove out of Snowdonia we had a large spy plane fly low over the top of us, which was impressive to see. We’ve been able to see a good deal or impressive military aircraft in the past 3 days and it’s been interesting to watch.

We attempted to negotiate our way to Manchester so that we could stop and pick up a GPS holder for the car as we’d managed to break the previous one, oops, but it all became quite confusing so we travelled onto another large town nearby and picked one up for a reasonable price before heading off again.

We arrived at St Marks, a beautiful B&B which was to be our ‘home’ for the next 3 days not long after. This B&B is absolutely beautiful. Barbara the owner is gorgeous and you at once feel at home and welcome. We had a beautiful large room and it was just so incredibly cozy, and the bed… ahhhhh, the bed, it was so wonderful! I just wanted to snuggle down and sleep there forever!!

The B&B was full up for the next few nights as there was a lovely group of Quilters staying as well. These 7 ladies get together every year in May for a week and quilt. It’s a lovely idea and they make some amazing and beautiful works of art while away. The ladies were all very nice and we felt at home with them as we chatted with them over various things and of our plans etc.

As they went off to have their dinner in the dining room Chris and I head 3 miles down the road to the pub “the fat lamb” which I kept calling “the fat cow” accidently. They served nice meals, but what we really enjoyed was the elderly gentleman who sat at the bar “talking” to his mate. I use the word talking loosely as we know he was communicating but he had one of those accents that you can not understand as its all mumbles and grunts and then a few chuckles. He really made us giggle and it was very cute. He was very pleasant though and we know that he said ‘good evening’ to us which we reciprocated.

After our nice meal and evening entertainment we head back to our wonderful, warm and inviting B&B, had a good chat to Barbara who with all her knowledge and understanding helped to plan our next few days before falling into the most comfortable beds we’ve ever, and I mean ever, had the pleasure to sleep in.

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Chris and Emily on May 8, 2009 from Llanberis, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

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