Sunday 12 September: to The Lakes

 Calm warm night so the church bells drive us mad in the early hours In addition the cattle are lowing and the sheep baaing. Owls hoot. Anyone would think we were camping on a farm….oh, we are!

We pack up and head off to Penrith to stock up at Booths. Then to Sykeside camping at Brotherswater. Great pitch overlooking the fells. Coffee and Spanish date and walnut cake and then we head off up the Skandale pass to Dove Crag and make the return via the knee busting descent down Dovedale Beck. We see the Priest’s hole high up above us. We can see the pub in the distance. However  it never seems to get any nearer!

Four and a half hours later we get back to the Brotherswater Inn for a well earned pint. 

Spaghetti carbonara with mushrooms for supper and a lovely Rioja.