So here I am, in the Lake District for a week visiting family – and friends – and based at Troutbeck. It’s deep in the Lake District. Of course, the Lake District is famous for mountains, lakes, steamboats, views, daffodils, … Continue reading Mountains and More @ The Lake District!
Scenes from my journey on the A66 today across the Pennines….. Oh yes, and not forgetting this one! The Pennines in winter, definitely in the category of the road less traveled! Continue reading Snow, snow, snow!
Kendal, Cumbria is a beautiful town on a sunny day! Happened to be there today, down by the parish church, and along the river where there were tons of seagulls getting fed…. Then for the last 20 minutes I raced up to Kendal Castle and back – it took 7 minutes to run around the top of the castle and in and out of every ruin – and then back down to the town to get to the car before the parking ran out! Never been to the castle before, it’s best-known for being the ancient home of the Parr … Continue reading Kendal, Cumbria
The ‘Visit Cumbria’ website says that Dent is maybe the finest of the Cumbria dales, even though until 1970 it wasn’t even in Cumbria, but in the West Riding of Yorkshire. And like Sedbergh, it may be in Cumbria now, but it’s also in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Ah well, the best of all possible worlds! Anyway, Dent is just over the hills from Sedbergh, so near in fact that I have only been there, well, once. Yes, just once. And even then, only to Dent Village. Isn’t that just the way it often is?! Dent is also famous … Continue reading Dentdale, Cumbria
Ah yes, the Kirkstone Pass, the highest pass in the Lake District at 454m – and there at the top is the welcome sight of the Kirkstone Pass Inn ~ where yesterday the log fire was so welcome and the pumpkin soup was just wonderful! Up from Troutbeck and down to Ullswater ~ stunning! It was Wordsworth who said about the Kirkstone Pass: “Who comes not hither ne’er shall know, how beautiful the world below…” So so true! Continue reading Kirkstone Pass, Cumbria ~ and Wordsworth was right!
Huge, vast, ginormous in fact – there’s no other description, absolutely endless miles and miles of sands and water, stretching way beyond the horizon. Unfortunately the sands are famous for being as dangerous as they are beautiful, but viewed from the safety of the road, well, yesterday they were spectacular! So near, and yet so far! From the Howgill Fells above Sedbergh, Morecambe Bay glitters in the distance every time the sun comes out and the clouds lift, but it’s always one of the those places we pass by, and never go to. Enough is enough, and yesterday was the … Continue reading Morecambe Bay ~ just amazing!
A little ambling around a very wet Ambleside… Autumn colours in Cumbria ~ just amazing! Continue reading Autumn in Ambleside…
Catherine Lee 