Duration
Five nights
When
August 2023
Why?
Revisiting the Lakes and discovering the lochs in Galloway
We were sitting in the Tower Bank Arms at Near Sawrey, creating puddles around us as we dripped. “Well, if it didn’t rain, there wouldn’t be lakes, would there?” I mused. “It’s just a good job these pubs are walker friendly and used to muddy boots and paws,” said Ro. Halfway through a rather rainy walk from our base in Hawkshead to Near Sawrey and back, we had decided to stop for lunch.
The pub is what I would call a traditional Lake District inn, with stone floors and thankfully, a log fire. Sitting behind Hill Top, Beatrix Potter’s charming country retreat, it featured in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. I have always found it cosy and welcoming and right now, I was really glad to be out of the persistent rain.
Hawkshead haven
We were spending a few days in what is one of my favourite places in the whole world, the Lake District, before moving on to explore south-west Scotland, and were pitched at
