I had a great visit, thanks. Walked around Loughrigg Tarn on the Thursday and ate at a great restaurant in Ambleside that night. Got snowed in Friday so we walked into Ambleside from the pub we stayed at in the snow, spent two hours in a cosy pub in Ambleside and then took a cab back. :-) Spent the day in the pub with the locals and their dogs and the roaring fire and then had dinner there that night. The pub does it's own beer which - sadly - they don't export down south. Barngate it is called and they had about 8 bitters and a lager, both the bitters I was drinking were quite wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
It's getting in and out of the f*cking place that drives me mental. We did it in 8 1/2 hours on the way there and the M25, M40 and M6 were all crawling along. I think from me 5 hours is sensible. On the way back we had to take A roads to Halifax to visit friends as the M6 was still a parking lot, then we got on the M1 only to be informed that it was shut at J28 so we diverted over to the A1 which was OK but slowish. We then moved back from the A1 to the M1 outside London at which point the M1 stopped again.
Never again. 3 visits, 6 trips and every one of them has been excruciatingly slow. I'm thinking a train to Windermere/Ambleside followed by hiring a car.
