The Lakes District is a UNESCO World Heritage National Park in the north of England - Cumbria.

Check this link - Lakes District

We flew into Heathrow and stayed at Richmond (our 'old haunt') overnight. Rented a car and drove to the Lakes District - about 6 hours.

It rained most of the way, and absolutely poured down the closer we got to our destination. We really started to worry that we'd made a big mistake coming here at this time of year. It rained all night, but then the next day FINE! Not exactly sunny, and still quite cool - but not raining. During the week we were there it did rain a couple of times, but generally overnight. So we need not have worried. True, the ground was a bit wet and sloppy under foot in parts, but nothing too bad.

This is the country of the poet William Wordsworth, and the author of the Peter Rabbit books, Beatrix Potter. We visited the home of both of these notable people.

It's a countryside of rolling hills, narrow lanes, stone fences, stone houses, stone bridges, lakes, rivers, and sheep.

(1) & (2) A view looking down on Lake Windermere. We stayed in the town by the lake.
(3) A typical stone bridge. The day we visited there was some locals hanging around just watching tourists drive over the bridge and get bogged on the other side! Not much entertainment around here apparently.
(4) Castlerigg Stone Circle. Believed to have been built in 3000 BC

                                      (8) Bridge house - It was built spanning the river to avoid land tax! It is said that at some time a family with six children lived here in the two rooms.

(9) a lake     (10) another lake     (11) a further lake     (12) ...and a lake just so you know this is the lakes district