Break
It's been a long time since my last blog up-date, doesn't life get busy sometime, didn't mean to stay away so long but I thought I would start my up-date with a few pics of our break in the Lake District last week. I can highly recommend this area to visit, we only had a long weekend but packed so much in that it seemed a lot longer. We stayed at the Shap Wells hotel in Penrith as a base, a lovely big hotel that is set well away from anywhere having it's own 1.5 mile drive, with fields and sheep walking all over, being May each had lambs and we had to stop many times driving down to the hotel as they meandered in front of the vehicle. The Hotel also has a red squirrel sanctuary so we took along a stash of nuts to feed them.
We visited Bowness where we went on a boat around the Lake and a steam train ride to take in the views, Keswick.. which is a lovely town and was our favorite. We also visited Coniston and took a ride on a Gondola around the Lake there. For shopping we went to Kendal, it isn't a big town but big enough to have a few of the usual chain shops and have a nice lunch and on the way home we stopped at Kirkby Lonsdale (another of my favorites) and Settle in the Yorkshire Dales before arriving home late Sunday night. I did take along some bear making to do but didn't mange to get any done as we were so busy and I got a little bit behind with my bears for the Stratford Bear Fair which is on the 6th June and am now sewing my fingers off to get ready for this event. Will post a few pics of the bears soon.
We visited Bowness where we went on a boat around the Lake and a steam train ride to take in the views, Keswick.. which is a lovely town and was our favorite. We also visited Coniston and took a ride on a Gondola around the Lake there. For shopping we went to Kendal, it isn't a big town but big enough to have a few of the usual chain shops and have a nice lunch and on the way home we stopped at Kirkby Lonsdale (another of my favorites) and Settle in the Yorkshire Dales before arriving home late Sunday night. I did take along some bear making to do but didn't mange to get any done as we were so busy and I got a little bit behind with my bears for the Stratford Bear Fair which is on the 6th June and am now sewing my fingers off to get ready for this event. Will post a few pics of the bears soon.
Pauline
