The Lakes District

The weather forecast was better in the south than the north, but we decided to head up to the Lakes district anyway. We were rewarded with blue sky and sunshine! Found a lovely B&B with a four poster bed and a view of Lake Windermere in a gorgeous little town called Bowness.


This is the view out the window. There are heaps of quaint little pubs and cafes. It is school holidays now so there are lots of people around, though still plenty of accommodation with vacancies.


We went on a jazz buffet dinner cruise. Most people sat "in steerage" as the leader of the band said, because that was where the buffet was, but we sat on the top deck and thoroughly enjoyed the music. And the food was pretty good too! It took two and a half hours to do a circuit of the lake, it's long but not very wide.


The sunset was rather lovely, and have you ever seen a New Zealand lake as calm as that?

We bought ourselves an iPad while we were in Manchester and downloaded Chopper, so Graham has been flying helicopters on rescue missions any spare second ever since! We showed Chopper to the manager of the Apple shop and he was suitably impressed and immediately downloaded it. He said he was going to write a review, so hopefully some more good publicity David. We thought we were the first in the family to get a 3G iPad, but we were pipped at the post by Dad who got one for his 80th birthday! Of course David and Emma have had wifi ones for ages. Not bad considering none have been released in NZ yet.
;-) Ann-a-Gram