Visiting Period
Summer, 7-8 July 2010 (mostly sunny)
I visited the Lake District with my brother. It was our 1st time. The weather was kind to us, as the Lake District is famous for its random weather. We missed our full day-Ten Lakes Spectacular-tour as one of our connecting train was delayed :( and joined the half day-Beatrix Potter's Lakeland-tour instead. The Beatrix Potter tour was more for family and pensioner. But nevertheless, we enjoyed it very much. I booked our tour through Viator. They are not cheap, but from my experience, they are responsive and reliable.
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| Beatrix Potter Gallery |
Of course, like everyone else, the main purpose of our visit was to WALK!
Orrest Head Walk
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| View of Lake Windermere from Orrest Head |
It's a short 40 minute walk (return) just across our B&B. Superb view at the top. Best to do around sunrise or sunset. We did it at sunset.
Little Langdale Walk
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| Little Langdale Tarn |
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| Blea Tarn |
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| Wildflowers around Blea Tarn |
We downloaded the map from the internet and loaded the file to our GPS :) It was supposed to be a 6 hour walk, but we finished it in 4 hours! The walk was pretty strenuous, but it was a worthy one. Wonderful sceneries all along!
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| Herdwick Sheep |
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| Heilan Coo |
Accommodation
Orrest Cottage (B&B), Windermere
Love it! The room is 5-star hotel clean with nice artistic touch. Love that complete Marks & Spencer toiletries :) The food is good. And to the very best, the PRICE is GOOD!!!
Getting Around
by bus:
618 Windermere - Ambleside - Windermere
516 (Langdale Rambler) Ambleside - Dungeon Ghyll - Ambleside
and on FOOT!
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