WOODLAND WONDERS
‘You’re close to lots of hiking routes through ancient woods, past tumbling waterfalls and across open fields’
Long-time caravanner Janette Sykes is a regular contributor
MY LOVE AFFAIR with the Lake District began back in the long, hot summer of 1976. I had just started work as a cub reporter and money was tight, but I managed to escape for a long weekend at Waterhead, on the northern tip of Lake Windermere.
The area’s legendary lushness had been crisped to a cinder by months of blazing sunshine and the total lack of rain, but even so, I was bewitched by its beauty and the liberating feeling of being far removed from the cares of everyday life.
Over the years, I’ve been back to the Lakes more times than I can remember, and I still feel that frisson of excitement every time I leave the M6 to refresh the relationship. When my
