Saturday we both went to work finished at three went home and packed a head bag for a night away in the Lakes Ambleside in Cumbria staying the night at High Loanthwaite farm which is a working farm which does B&B which was once owned by Beatrice Potter, that we found out about it on the Internet and phoned up to make a one night reservation.

We left Rodley at quarter past four after we had called into Gregg's and had a tea and coffee before setting off.The drive took us about two hours to reach Ambleside we found out where Hawkshead was then phoned the farm for directions ten minutes later we was in our room on the farm.


unpacked just the one case that night hit Ambleside town centre went to Tagore Indian restaurant had chicken in mango Helen had her normal chicken korma plus rice and poppadoms went to Churchill's bar hotel for a drink got lost on the way back the roads where well dark and everything looks the same with trees and stone walling every where you look any way did get back to the farm eventually Sunday morning had breakfast then drove and parked in Ambleside went up to saw the waterfalls walked to lake Windermere and caught the boat to Bowness which took just half an hour to complete the one way trip , once we disembarked we went round the town centre bought some hand made chocolates and truffles then had a coffee and tea at costas Helen does not do coffee at all....... after more walking about we then we got the return boat back to Ambleside to the car park where the car was then drove back to Leeds all in all it was a wicked time with a great girl and great scenery to boot.