Just in case you were wondering what had happened to the lakes in our journey to the Lake District, here is a photo of Lake Windermere.

Unfortunately I don’t have that many photos of actual lakes. It was positively chucking it down with rain when we were at Ullswater and we didn’t feel like getting soaked so we just drove on. I really wanted to go on one of the wee steamboats which were chugging along on the lake so that’s what we’ll be doing the next time we are in the vicinity. I did spot a couple of people down at the water’s edge – skimming stones, completely oblivious to the sheets of rain coming down. If you want to see what Ullswater looks like have a look here.

There’s a famous waterfall near there too called Aira Force, have a look here if you want to see that.

The Lake District is quite similar to Scotland in parts, it’s a sort of squashed up version of Scotland as the lakes are so close together, you don’t have to travel far before you reach another one. I somehow don’t think that the people in Cumbria would like to think of it as Little Scotland, in the way that the French are quite happy to call one of their loveliest areas La Petite Suisse.

The Lake District is similar to Scotland, but without the magnificence of high mountains in the background, and with far more tourists.