Cumbria - Lake District

If you ask anyone here what the best country side in uk is, most probably you will get the answer as Cumbria-The Lake District. It consists of tiny villages with most stunning surrounds you can imagine. You get mix of everything here, nice village life, good mountains, wonderful lakes, great woods and lots more. It is a diverse place and when you are visiting a place like this, you have to do proper planning and select only few places to see. I did some research on some places which would fit into a two day trip and booked a B&B in a village keswick. For this trip the other people are suresh, amar(my other housemate along with suresh) and subbu. Subbu used to work with me in the same company when i was doing my part time job in UK. he was a wonderful traveller and was always ready when going somewhere. I never went with amar before and he was also a wonderful companion in these journies. Most importantly he got a car :D. So we 4 decided to goto cumbria and were eagerly waiting for the day to come.

The day finally came, it was a saturday and we all started with amar driving the car. I was sittin g with him in the front as a navigato and subbu, suresh were sitting in the back seat. Amar had a GPS Navigator and it really helped us on numerous occasions in the trip while going to a particular place.

The Navigator

The route from leeds to cumbria is wonderful and it was a great delight for us as we passed each tiny village enroute viewing the beautiful british country side. The first place we wanted to go was winderemere. It is one of the most famous places in cumbria and was the nearest one for us. It is a small town but always full of water acitivities. The winderemere lake is very famous and you get loads of rides there. We stopped at the town centre and proceeded to the boating area. We stopped at a boating museum and walked down to the lake. There was a good church in the way and there was an english wedding going on that day. I went inside with suresh and we had a good talk with an old woman inside the church. She pointed us important places nearby and to my delight the lake district is home to one of my favourite poets-william wordsworth. Now let me post some of the lake photos. It was a bit cloudy at that time and we wanted to do boating in another place. so we just checked the lake had a coffee, sat there for sometime and started our journey again.

Subbu, amar and me


Windermere Town center





From here we proceeded to keswick but stopped at couple of good towns inbetween.

From here we reached keswick in the evening and it was becoming dark very fast. We headed strait to the keswick lake and went for a walk into the woods. The keswick lake is one of the most beautiful lakes in lake district and has some wondeful lake side walks. It was quite dark and i was using old camera at that time, the pics came quite dull.

All four of us


A gallery in keswick.

We had some coffee and cakes in a cafe near keswick and then went to our B&B. It was a nice and very comfortable. In the night we felt very hungry and went to the village centre and found a kebab shop finally. subbu and amar had kebabs, i had a pizza with suresh. Next morning we had a good english breakfast at that b&b. The owners came from south africa and settled here. They were very nice and talked about some interesting places around to visit. Saying bye bye to our hosts we hit the road again and went to the keswick village centre.

The B&B where we stayed










Keswick town centre




Our Car

From there we wanted to go to coniston to do some boating and hit the road again. Just when we were reaching coniston we found a beautiful walk beside the road. We found a parking space nearby so we parked the car and went on for some walking around a small water body. The walk was very good and i was able to get some good pictures.

You have to fun the fundoo hairstyle of suresh here :D

Again we were on the road and reached coniston. The roads were really awesome with many bends and reminded us of the ghat roads in india. We went to the boating place and hired two boats. Amar and subbu in one boat, i shared one boat with suresh. We had 30 mins to ride the motor boat in the river and had great fun driving it. We were a bit afraid in the begining when the boat was shaking but later we had quite fun.

In the return we stopped at windermere again and went to a fresh water aquarium, spent some time there and started our return journey to leeds. I throughly enjoyed the trip and will always remember this one as one of my best here :)

Do join me for my next journey. Till then have a nice time.........