For nearly four years now, people have asked us “Have you been to the Lake District yet?” and we have always had to reply “No, we’ll do it when we have a van” Well, since we have had ‘Brian-not-sexy-but-good’ for over a year now, we have finally decided to make time for the Northern parts of the UK over the next couple of weeks. Yes, the Lake District was everything we imagined it would be. Ridiculously cute skipping lambs, daffodils, cute cottages, lakes, enticing pubs, villages, hills… and yes, you guessed it: RAIN. So unfortunately, we’ll have to continue imagining what all of these things actually looked like, because three of our four days were spent under grey skies, persistent showers and eventually snow. So, not only was it wet, it was also very, very cold.
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