Day 1

Bowness To Low Wray

Set off from the den, an hour in to the journey we had a police escort ( well a van crashed leaving debris all over the road and we were at the front of the jam). When we arrived at Bowness we had our sandwiches then set off, first of all we took a detour around the car park then set off again. From Bowness to the ferry we had to stop every minute because Mike wanted pictures of everything including a sheep peeing and pooing!

Asa was absent for the day but we met up with him at the campsite later.

 

As we approached the ferry we decided to buy an ice cream from an ice cream lady with a sexy bum. Dan was really chatty near her and made it very obvious by chatting her up- 'you look very bored' and 'have an interesting day!'

we got on the ferry and the hit the HILL OMG! It was tiring but good exercise. Must have lost 10 stone each in sweat- Dan maybe more but didn't show. after following signs for Miss Potter we charmed  (well Pikey) the man into letting us in for free until he knew there was 4 of us. Then he said he would have to charge us for a child- £2.70 each but we couldn't visit till 3.40 and it was 1.20 so we said no. Instead we went up to the house and took pictures from within the gardens. ( going for walk- 9.25pm)

 

I have just spent at least 10 minutes trying to read mike's illegable writing, and bad grammer, 10 minutes of my life I'LL NEVER GET BACK!!! (DAN)

 

On with the story...

After visiting Beatrix Potter land we went for a long walk along a road to Hawkshead, the road followed a long lake which seemed bigger than the map. It never seemed to end when we eventually reached hawkshead I thought we were done for the day but I was informed that we had to go to Low Wray.

we decided to stop for food in hawkshead and spent a long time looking for somewhere to sit down and eat but everywhere was far too expensive. We eventually bought some food from the Co-op which mainly consisted of snacks, min cheddars, hola hoops etc.

We then found a bench and were there for some time eating and feeding a bird. Passers by gave us all strange looks especially me, Tom said i must look like the viallge rapist! we then continued ( we met steve Boardman before we set off and had a quick chat).

The most direct route to Low wray was the public footpath which took us over lots of muddy fields. Along the way Mike had to stop and say awwwwww at every sheep and horse and cow etc.

We saw a lamb with a broken leg and went to tell the Farmer who lived at the end of the footpath. the farmer's wife explained that it's leg had broken and heald that way, the dogs came running from the house and yet again an Awwwwww eminated from Mike.

We then continued to Low Wray after passing Low wray castle we arrived at the camp site and met the rest of the Boardman troop and Asa around about sixish. Not bad seven hours for an eight mile walk plus stops for pictures and food ... NOT!!

We had a bit of rest before putting up the tents then we cooked our tea, cup-o-soups and bread, Mike left his mushroom soup and produced a can of chicken curry which looked a lot like dog food. Someone added some nice crisps to mikes soup, I suspect Tom. But apparently it  was Mike.

There is a 1st time for everything... and I witnessed Rachel Boardman errect a tent on her own! This is the lady who is known commonly as the supervisor.

We Just relaxed like Frankie said, for the rest of tehnight. However Mike and Asa went for a walk and then tried to sneak up on us. We kept mistaking tree trunks and big rocks for Asa.

 

At the moment Asa and Mike are buning a slug over the stove. If my food tommorrow tastes like slugs i will kill them!!!

 

it's nearly time for beddybyes and Mike is going to read his Harry Potter book, if he dare tells me (asa) anything & spoils it i wil hurt him!

 

Untill Tomorrow...