More from Cumbria

The Lake District is full of market towns and shops like this, very old and quaint and hiding some fabulous treasures inside. We spent a few hours wondering around these shops and enjoying tea in between!

Lovely olde tea shoppe in Kendal.

At the cottage, as well as the brilliant red squirrel we managed to encounter, we were treated to some beautiful British birds (including many types of tits, and even a Woodpecker!) Unfortunately they were all a bit too quick for us to take photos of most of the time...here is a coal tit enjoying some peanuts on bird table.


One morning we took a short drive out to one of the largest stone circles in Northern England, Long Meg and her Daughters. The legend is true, all four of us counted the stones and no one agreed on how many there were!

Louise and Mal at Long Meg and her daughters
Dan and I next to Long Meg

In the afternoon, we drove a little further to see one of the highest waterfalls in the UK, High Force. We also saw a couple of smaller (though no less impressive) falls to complete a fantastic day.

High Force falls, County Durham

Before the drive home on the Wednesday, we looked in on Dan's Grandma Unsworth. She's lived in Grange-over-Sands for over 20 years and has a lot of great friends there to keep her company. It was lovely to take her out for lunch at The Cavendish Arms in Cartmel and catch up on the family happenings.