Monthly Archives: September 2019

England, Day 19 (22 September)

Today is another travel day, so there’s not a lot to report. This morning we awoke to another spectacular day. After breakfast, we bid farewell to our hostess and headed to the Lake District. About 1 hour into our journey, the clouds started to appear. Despite the clouds (and at times because of them), the scenery was absolutely spectacular. Sadly, no photo ops as we drove along. We arrived in Keswick, about 5.2 miles from our destination. Since we would be 1.5 hours too early for check in, we decided to explore Keswick. We stopped at a tea room for a tea and cappuccino break. The meat pies looked so good we picked up some for dinner. We then stopped at the Tourist Info Centre and received some good information about walks in the area. After walking around the town for a bit, we headed to our lodging for the night.

Since we didn’t have a house number, we couldn’t plug our destination into the car’s GPS.  We used the directions we downloaded from the B&B website. About 1 mile from our destination, unbeknownst to us, we missed a turn. After 4 miles down a narrow, windy road, Wayne realized we weren’t going in the right direction and our cellphone GPS was telling us we still had 26 miles to go. We could have continued on that road as it would have taken us in a complete circle around the lake, but driving on the road was much like our drive down the Whanganui River Road in New Zealand.  This road is a single lane, windy and hilly road with almost no visibility for on-coming traffic. (I’m still not sure what I would have done if a car had been coming toward me.) The only real difference was that the road was paved and cliffs on both sides (a solid wall on the left and a drop into the lake on the right) weren’t as high as those in New Zealand. After a short distance, we found a place to turn around and drove back to Grange where we apparently missed our turn. It was a good thing it wasn’t too narrow because we passed several cars and a bus. We felt like we were out in no man’s land.

At the village Methodist Church, we found a lovely couple who directed us to a cafe for help locating our B & B. We were only 1/2 mile away from our destination and the turn we missed was just on the other side of the cafe. Our AirBnB, Hollows Farm, is an old farm house, built in 1600’s, that is in wonderful condition. It is a working farm, with sheep, cattle and chickens. Our hostess Laura is wonderful. The farm, like most in this area, is owned by the National Trust and leased to Laura and her husband. It is a way to preserve the land and local farming. The views in this part of the Lake District are just stupendous.
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