Another holiday under the belt!
Jul. 30th, 2014 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
londonronnieBack home after a glorious week in the Lake District, staying at the same cottage that we went to last year. Temperatures hovering around 75 to 80 degrees every day and not a single solitary drop of rain apart from a few showers on the way there (and anyone who knows the Lakes will know how unusual that is!). We nearly came home without our waterproof coats actually, as I'd hung them up when we arrived and they hadn't been moved all week!
Granddaughter Izzy came with us again and she had a great time watching all the wildlife that visited the garden - red squirrels, woodpeckers, foxes, buzzards, sheep and lots of different garden birds. No deer this year unfortunately, but the red squirrels more than made up for that.
The cottage is next door to the owners' house, and this year they were there when we arrived (the main house was empty all week last time). They were only there for the weekend though and they kindly told us that we could use their garden as much as we liked after they left. Not that we actually did - we preferred our little patio outside the cottage door - but it was nice to wander around the garden in the evening and marvel at the fact that some people can actually afford to keep a gorgeous place like that solely as a holiday home!
Our little cottage and the main house and garden next door -
Our walk into Keswick, alongside Derwentwater -
Izzy explores Rosthwaite and cools off in the river at Grange -
On my birthday (which was also our 38th wedding anniversary!) we explored Borrowdale a bit more and later introduced Izzy to one of my favourite places, the Castlerigg Stone Circle -
And look what was Discovered in a (Borrowdale) Graveyard -
It's back to the old routine now, of course - although only for the next six weeks or so because thanks to an unexpected Time Out offer for cheap rail travel we've decided to have a few days in London for the OH's birthday! So, more gadding about is on the cards (and it's lovely! *g*)
Granddaughter Izzy came with us again and she had a great time watching all the wildlife that visited the garden - red squirrels, woodpeckers, foxes, buzzards, sheep and lots of different garden birds. No deer this year unfortunately, but the red squirrels more than made up for that.
The cottage is next door to the owners' house, and this year they were there when we arrived (the main house was empty all week last time). They were only there for the weekend though and they kindly told us that we could use their garden as much as we liked after they left. Not that we actually did - we preferred our little patio outside the cottage door - but it was nice to wander around the garden in the evening and marvel at the fact that some people can actually afford to keep a gorgeous place like that solely as a holiday home!
Our little cottage and the main house and garden next door -
Our walk into Keswick, alongside Derwentwater -
Izzy explores Rosthwaite and cools off in the river at Grange -
On my birthday (which was also our 38th wedding anniversary!) we explored Borrowdale a bit more and later introduced Izzy to one of my favourite places, the Castlerigg Stone Circle -
And look what was Discovered in a (Borrowdale) Graveyard -
It's back to the old routine now, of course - although only for the next six weeks or so because thanks to an unexpected Time Out offer for cheap rail travel we've decided to have a few days in London for the OH's birthday! So, more gadding about is on the cards (and it's lovely! *g*)
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Date: 2014-07-31 01:33 pm (UTC)