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More Keswick

Just to round out the Lake District portion of our trip…some more photos of sheep, and other stuff we did.

The outside of our B&B
The market square.
Sheep.
A lane across fields of sheep.
George talking to the sheep
The bridge to Portinscale
The bridge to Portinscale
The river under that bridge
Lots of dogs in this pub.
Mmm, pie.
Clouds over mountains
Cockermouth flooded. A lot.
Mmm. Pimm’s!
Rivers in Cockermouth
The Jennings brewery
Hops
Stuck my head in this, pretty sure I have no nose hair left.
Old movie theater
Going back to Portinscale
I think a mouse must live down there.
Fish n chips

Another Keswick walk: to Castlerigg stone circle

IMG_2349Another day, another breakfast, another walk. We ended up spending the day between our two big walks in the town of Cockermouth, where we went on a brewery tour and visited a few pubs (shocker.) For breakfast, I chose the slightly less hearty meal of yogurt and granola, plus scrambled eggs with salmon. Good choice.

But on Sunday, we were ready to tackle another one. This time, in keeping with our theme of “walks with Castle in the name,” we decided to take a walk that encompassed the Castlerigg stone circle. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to see this stone circle, but it started right near our B&B, and the distance was manageable (about 4 miles.)

Well, not to give away the ending, but it was exquisite.

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