Lake District

Back after a short break to the Lake District. We drove up to Ambleside on Thursday, aiming to have a quiet relaxing time. After Jane fell down the stairs the other week, damaging her ankle ligaments, and I'm only recently recovered from the ME, we took it easy at first by climbing the 482m peak of Wansfell Pike, which is currently topped with a nice example of rock balancing.



Owing to a slight bit of confusion as to who was taking the food, we only had a packet of raisins and a nutrigrain each. Still - we were up and down within about 4 hours, still not especially hungry but thankful we took plenty of water and warm clothing. In the town it was warm, and at the top (even at such a low level) it was bloody cold.

The following day consisted of an attempt to walk from Ambleside to Windermere. Although it is a relatively short distance (of the order of 6 miles), it proved so unpleasant due to the car fumes, bad state of repair of the pavements, and obnoxious arrogance of pavement-cyclists that we turned back after 3 miles. Much of the lakeside on this route is on private land, and the roadway you pretty much have to follow deviates from the water.

That was the only disappointment though - and hopefully we'll go back sometime soon and climb something a little bigger.