Alison, Maria and I arrived at Windermere yesterday at lunchtime, much earlier than we'd anticipated thanks to Maria getting us up at 5a.m. which meant we set off some 5 hours earlier than expected. The beneift of that was to help us avoid traffic on the 317 mile drive which allowed us to arrive shortly before 11.30, just the six hours ahead of when we'd told our hosts we'd be arriving.
The first stop was the Lake District Visitor Centre with a lovely adventure playground and colourful gardens followed by a drive to Ambleside where we sat by Windermere impressed by the lush greenery which was out of keeping with the harsh slopes I'd expected. The local environment was far less like Dartmoor or the Highlands tahn I'd anticipated but it was nonetheless very impressive.
Today we started out by walking to Bowness shortly before 9 and avoided the threatened rain as we wound our way past the dry stone walls and slate buildings toward the centre of the town and Beatrix Potter World.
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