A&E Abroad: Lakes District. May 16

Today we got up and headed downstairs for a cooked breakfast in our B&B’s dining room. We made the most of it and ate as much as we possibly could!

We then walked up to the station and caught a bus up the lake to Grasmere, watching the lake, forest and cottage gardens through the window. In Grasmere we walked through a small cemetery, finding the gravesite of poet William Wordsworth. Outside the cemetery is a little gingerbread shop, which sells a particular type of gingerbread created by a lady who lived there a long time ago. It’s pretty yum.

Grasmere

Red breasted robin

Grasmere

Grasmere gingerbread

Poet William Wordsworth's gravestone

Grasmere

#model

Grasmere

Elise studying the bus routes of the Lakes District

After a walk around the town, we caught the bus back down to the top end of the lake to a town called Ambleside. The town is a bigger and quite touristy, but we found the ‘most photographed building in the Lakes’, which was a tiny little two floor, two room stone building on a bridge over the brook. We were trapped in by a tour group, but found of that it had many uses, such as an apple store (the fruit, not the computers), a weaver’s house and a house for a family of 6!

Ambleside

Tiny home of 6

Elise v impressed

YES

While waiting for another bus, we went to a local tearoom and shared a pot of tea and two slices of cake, and thus felt very English. We then took the bus to a little place called Elterwater where we took the walking path through picturesque paddocks, following a river. We took our walk further, approximately 6 miles, and weaved our way through country lanes and paddocks full of gambolling lambs all the way back to Ambleside’s port town Waterhead. On the way we also saw an owl and Elise tried desperately to get close enough for a photo, but was super happy to just have it in front of her anyway.

Elterwater

Ash bringing down walls

On route

OWL THOUGH ( P.S. Go to sleep, you're nocturnal)

On the way to Ambleside

Getting the shots

Painting or 4real?

Don't lose yo hat

Much amaze. Such wonder

Wildflowers, stop being so idyllic

Yessssss, graveyards, our fave

We found ourselves a fish and chips shop and decided it was too icy to take down to the port, so we sat inside and ate our fish and chips. (Yes, Ash ate fish and gave it an 8/10 for tastiness. Elise was very pleased). From Waterhead we took the ferry back to Bowness which is a lovely way to see the area from a different angle. We then walked back to our B&B to pack again for tomorrow’s move to York!