You have to be prepared for all weathers for sure, and a steady supply of hotel shower caps is particularly useful... not for me, I hasten to add, but for the camera!! With snow on the hills, ice on the lakes, low evening sun, mist, raging waterfalls and only a handful of other tourists, winter is a very good time to be there! Of course it did rain, and snow, and rain and snow again, but it's all good for keeping the lakes topped up and for bringing some drama into the skies.
Brought some drama into travelling round as well, but how dull things would be if they were always easy!
Of all the places I visited while there, the road from Keswick round via Buttermere and back to Keswick is the one I most want to go back and explore again. Oh, and more of Ullswater, and more of Ennerdale, and more of the Langdales, and the fort at Hardknott...
and Eskdale, and Wast Water, and... well, you get the picture!
I don't know about Hardknott, but those sheep up there are right hard nuts!!
Did you know that the Herdwick sheep will eat their own wool in the winter? They are real hardcase lil lambs!! Snow? Pah, they laugh in the face of snow! Winter? Bring it on!!
One of the unexpected, and maybe even slightly guilty pleasures of the Lakes (though I'm certainly not embarrassed to say I love trains!!) is found at the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.
A narrow gauge railway trundles you along through the countryside between the high mountains of Eskdale and the coast at Ravenglass...
...or the other way about, whichever your preference! It is such a great wee thing, so well managed and lovingly maintained, it is truly delightful. I will certainly return to the Lake District as soon as there's a chance. I love it, whatever the weather!
Rebecca, x
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