Kendal lies very close to the Lake District and Mum enjoys browsing through the shops.
Spot the old cobbled streets and if you look closely - Hogarth's Jeweller's.
Here's Mum outside a shop that specializes in chocolate of any description.
A view of the main street.
For my second bus trip I caught a bus to Lancaster bus station with the intention of choosing another bus to an exotic destination. The first bus that I saw was going to Keswick which is in the Lake District, about 2 hours away by bus. I grabbed a few timetables from the office and hopped on just in time as the doors were closing.
Well as I read through the timetables I realized that It was too late in the day to get to Keswick and back again and so jumped off the bus in Bolton le Sands to walk back to Morecambe.
The next day I caught a bus outside Mum's flats that took me close to Heysham Harbour about 4 miles to the south. I planned to walk back from Heysham to Bare. The weather was clear but very blustery. As I walked along the path the wind was blowing me off to one side.
Just before the village of Heysham I reached the remains of an ancient 8th century chapel.
Next to it is the present day church and a small village with twisting streets and stone cottages.
A very picturesque church with Morecambe Bay in the background.
The remainder of the walk was along the promenade back to Morecambe, luckily the wind was blowing from the south and pushing me along. There's a row of terraced houses as you reach Morecambe that are about 4 storeys high with great views across the bay to the Lake District Mountains. Some of them have not been split into flats or renovated and would make interesting projects.
On Wednesday I caught the 555 to Keswick (early in the day this time) and planned to go for a walk around Derwentwater. Once again I didn't make it! The bus was almost half an hour late arriving in Kendal, which is the half way point. The driver got out, changed the sign on the bus from Keswick to "Not in Service" and asked us all to get off. "There'll be an open top bus along just now for Ambleside" he said.
The open top bus arrived and the sign said Grasmere so we alighted, after all Grasmere was another few miles towards Keswick.
The bus arrived at Windermere railway station, it was very cold on top in the wind so we soon moved under cover. The bus then did a 20 minute detour down to the Lake front at Bowness and back to the railway station!
See the swans.
We then set off again to Grasmere via Ambleside.
By the time we arrived it was once again too late to try and get to Keswick and back.
I walked around Grasmere Village eating a Melton Mowbray pork pie and a Mars Bar for lunch (as you do) and then set off to walk the four or so miles back to Ambleside alongside Grasmere Lake and Rydal Water.
Beautiful!
Lost the path at one time and had to scramble down through some woods and climb over a fence. Had visions of slipping in my trainers (my hiking boots were at home in South Africa) coming to grief, and not being found for days as nobody knew where I was.
Isn't life exciting sometimes?
Location:North West England
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