The Lakes District tour 26-8-10

We left very early for a train ride from London to the Lakes District --about 3 hours. We were met at Oxenholme by a man from Mountain Goat Tours and headed in a minibus for a tour of Cumbria and the lakes area. On board were Chinese, Japanese, Americans and two little Taswegans!!

Cumbrian Mountains

What beautiful country this is. It's been an inspiration for poets such as Wordsworth, artists and of course Beatrice Potter. We went to Beatrice Potters house, "Hilltop" 17th century house. It was just as depicted in the Film "Miss. Potter".

Beatrice Potters house.

Shelley would love it here--your favourite children's books!! The garden was so pretty and the basis for most of her stories as was the house.

We travelled to Haweshead---named after a Viking chief. Many Viking words are used in this area such as "mere" meaning water and "tarn" teardrop. We then went on a little ferry boat on Coniston Water. This is the lake where Donald Campbell crashed hs boat Bluebird and was killed. This was such a pretty lake with many yachts, canoes and many little boats. We let the ferry at John Ruskins house---a huge house and garden overlooking the lake. We finished our tour with "Cream tea" at the house Beatrice gave her mother