The Lake District - arrival

 

Up, breakfast, packed and out of the cottage by 9am.

We drove out of the Yorkshire Dales and in a short time the scenery changed.

We were treated to a magnificent rainbow as we left the Dales but it faded every time I found a place to pull over and take a picture. At one stopping place we did see rainbow painted sheep.

By 12 noon we had met our next landlord at the house in Keswick, accompanied by his dog, Jackson. We would have been there earlier but I managed to miss a couple of turns on the road and there was way more traffic, on a Sunday, in the Lake District, than we had met anywhere in the Dales.

Views across the rooftops

from our home for the next 4 nights, with 3 water features and a Koi pond.

The gardens are lovely

as is the inside....living room,

Judy keeping us company

in the dining room.

 

No pub close by so we headed into town to do some grocery shopping and get reacquainted with the town (we were here in 2015).

Just down our street is access to the Railway Trail and a 20 minute walk gets us into downtown Keswick.

 

The stone here, in the walled fields and the houses, is a dark blue/grey, not as warm as the stone colours on the Dales. More slate like here.

Sunday afternoon and the pedestrian area of Keswick was busy, many people just there for the touristy shopping, many coming in from hiking the hills in walking boots and carrying hiking poles

and so many dogs.

We walked back, up hill, lugging a backpack and 3 bags, all full of groceries.

But I had a fabulous, deep, hot bath with a glass of wine. A delicious stir fry with another glass of wine and now "blog" in front of the gas fireplace before heading to bed.