3652 Days!

On Wednesday 19th it was Steve and my 10th wedding anniversary! Grandma and grandpa were kind (stupid?) enough to offer to look after the kids - we took them at their word and booked two nights in Keswick before they could change their minds! We stayed at The Grange, a very nice B+B about 10 minutes walk from the centre. When we were students we quite often camped just up the road and both remember walking past thinking it looked like a nice place to stay!

We spent a fab three days without using the car but pottering about, having a pint when we fancied with nowhere we needed to be or needed to do! We did find a few people rather inconsiderate as they had not had the forethought to leave their kids at home but I suppose it can't be helped. ;)

On Thursday we set off (after a substantial and rather yummy) breakfast to walk round Derwent Water and up Catbells. We didn't do this route as we walked from the B+B around the other side of the lake, stopped for a quick coffee before cutting across the bottom end of the lake to Manesty and up Catbells from that end. We walked along the ridge and back down into Portinscale and back to Keswick. It was around 11 miles and took us just over five hours.

It was perfect walking weather except for the few minutes we were around the peak when it got wet and windy! We were both expecting to be crippled for a day as it's a few years or so since we last did any walking of note but amazingly we felt fine. It was a much welcome break though I think we could do with another to get over this one!