The Quiet Side of the Lake

What to do on our last day always a quandary so we decided to head off to the quiet side of Lake Windermere. We headed for Wray Castle which is a National Trust property. It's not a proper castle as it was built in a mock gothic style in1840 by a wannabe castle owner a Liverpuddlian surgeon as his retirement home for just him and his wife. So this is what a couple would build as their 'retirement cottage' in the 19th century.

We chose this for a few reasons...one because I remember visiting a gardens near a big house somewhere in this area 30 years ago ....

this was not it! I don't think I will ever find out where it was now.

Secondly because there was a leisurely 4 mile walk lakeside that we thought would be nice on our last day.  The walk was ok it was leisurely but they had done there damndest and just turned it into a gravel drive so that it was suitable for everyone unfortunately it made it a bit mundane after Inglestone.

What didn't help was me putting my foot in a gravelled pothole (possibly the only one) and spraining my ankle only minor but annoying none the less.

It was so warm today I wore me sun hat! But wished I had worn my shorts too!

The woods looked very woodlandy

The National Trust at work putting up extra signage.

I couldn't resist this little boat it reminded me of pop and his little dinghy.

As you can see we had yet another blue sky day

This was all followed up by a very late lunch in Hawkshead at the Sun Cottage Cafe interestingly on our return I spotted reviews on Tripadvisor a few of which were horrendous. Well we had a really nice lunch sat outside with the best chips I have had in centuries (chicken and leek pie with veg and chips and bill had cod and chips and mushy peas also great).

So this was the last day of the Skippity hoppity sixitty holiday and it has been a stonker. 12/10 on the Annatastic scale. And finally a photo of our weeks domicile.