The Lakes District

As for Glasgow we had been forewarned about the weather up here. However, it was not wet: just cold and very blustery. But we did enjoy our stay amongst relatives (again on Shelley's side)again enjoying the northern hospitality and the local environment that kind of resembles that of the Queenstown Lakes area of NZ. We stayed with the Harkness family in Wigton, a small town in the Lakes District National Park, and spent the best part of two days being ferried around the local sights of Lakes and Fells (the hills of the north.) We enjoyed the track walking (rambling!) and the Circle of Stones (38 stones arranged in a circle somewhere between 3000 and 4000 years ago); the local pubs and boutique breweries; the slate quarry and production of slate products in Honister Pass; and the company of people (relatives) we had never met who welcomed us onto their homes (Harknesses, Pearsons and Farrimonds) and fed us with warm food, drinks and stories of past and present.