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Up and at 'em.Packed our stuff last night and got the car from the carpark to load up after a simple breakfast in our room. Those utensils that T&B gave us so long ago are surely in the "most useful" category.
Today we head out from Chester for the Lakes District aiming for Wendouree and Keswick. The traffic goingour way was moderate but we passed a 3km queue in the opposite diraction on the M6, We were saying what a waste of holiday hours thst woud have been. The Tom-Tom is proving a marriage saver, or at least the purchase of the UK maps for it is. One of the better investments we have made, it's paid for itself purely on the time saved getting around.
The roads are excellent and when we started in amongst the hills of th

is area they are proving challenging as well. We went from 4 lane freeway to 3 to 2 to 2 lane road to 1 1/2 lanes to 1 lane to about 3/4 of one lane with bends on the top of steep little rises and blind corners everywhere. And the Brits are SO courteous. Even had one back up for mus again.
visited Penrith and the Wendouree, very pretty. Memory time - water speed record location where   Donald Campbell's dad came to an untimely end in the "Bluebird; Lake Conistan just around the corner from Lake Wendouree. We took Rick Steve's recommendation and went for a B&B in the Keswick area

. Dropped past one of the several stone circles scattered throughout the south of England, but no nymph and satyr stuff, especially in broad daylight (pardon the pun), runes or spells. The circle was thought to be primarily a place for meeting of tribal chieftains and perhaps there was some religious significance, but like so much of the pre-celtic history, it's been lost in the annals of time.
So we went a bit further and rang around for a B&B and hit the jackpot first up; one vacancy for one night in a 300yo farmhouse about 6km out of Keswick on a single lane road. Most hospitable, a bed without an end at the bottom so yours truly can stretch out and enough time to do some planning for tomorrow, like where can I buy a replacement camera case for the one I've lost? Plus heading further north towards Glasgow.
Had a look outside, the hills are huge and striped with stone walls-some-one had a lot of cheap labour, a lot of spare time and a looooot of rock; these walls extend for many, many kilometers.

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