Lita’s last event of the 2009-2010 school visit season was on May 19th, and on the 21st we took off for a vacation in England and Scotland. We flew into Edinburgh and drove down to the Lake District (about 3 hours) where we had rented a lovely cottage near the village of Hawkshead. The cottage was built in the 1600s and was just above the village.
Also just above the village, through the sheep pastures on the path of our walk into Hawkshead, sits a beautiful old 17th Century church.
Hawkshead is the home of The Beatrix Potter Gallery, which is in a building that was once the office of the local solicitor William Heelis, who married Beatrix in 1913. They lived at Castle Farm in Near Sawrey, a couple of miles down the road. Beatrix’s Hill Top Farm is also open to the public and is a fun place to visit.
The main activity in the Lake District is walking. One of our favorite hikes is in the Borrowdale Valley.
And another beautiful walk is in Grasmere, the home of William Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage.
We ended up in Edinburgh — here just below Edinburgh Castle — and the weather turned dark and stormy…
The other main activity in England and Scotland is visiting pubs. Up near Edinburgh Castle we found a pub called The Jolly Judge, a good place for a pint of beer and a cup of soup!
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