Showing posts with label Keswick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keswick. Show all posts

Monday 14 January 2019

Keswick Camping and Caravan Club Site

Friday, 11th January 2019

A mild but grey morning, with a noticeable dampness in the air, as we leave Coniston Coppice Park CAMC Site and make our way to Keswick Camping and Caravan Club Site (N54 36'19" W3 8'47").

A short drive this morning, road not wide enough for Kathleen's taste.

A rather confusing destination this, two  sites, right next door to each other, one called Keswick Club Site, one called Derwent Water Site, both run by the Camping and Caravan Club. At this time of year the Derwent Water Site is closed. The Keswick Site is the one next to the Rugby Club, and, on the Lake Shore.

We arrive at 12:40, admission is not until 13:00, already, there is a queue!

A short stroll around Keswick, Church times checked out for Kathleen, and coffee and cake. Easy day.

Saturday, 12th January 2019

We have had quite a reasonable run of weather, considering it is mid-winter, but, it appears to have ended. Very windy last night, grey and wet this morning, the surrounding hills are not even visible under blanket of low cloud.

Kathleen has started the hair washing routine, so, that should be her amused for half a day. Looks as if I will be reading my book, or, "playing" on the internet.

Kathleen completes the Church run, getting rather wet in the process. She really is going to be rather annoyed if I "get in" on her membership ;)

Sunday, 13th January 2019

High winds and rain, not exactly pleasant, but, by 10:30, there was a patch of blue sky and a hint of sunshine.

A very good Sunday Lunch at Pack Horse Inn, followed by the obligatory stroll to Friars Cragg.

Monday, 14th January 2019

Predictably, since we are leaving, a bright and sunny day!

Uneventful drive home.











Saturday 26 March 2016

The Inevitable Friars Crag, and Home

Tuesday, 22nd March 2016

The inevitable walk to Friars Crag, no visit to Keswick is complete, without this ritual. It is supposedly one of the most photographed spots in the Lake District, but, you will be pleased to hear, I resisted the temptation to take any photographs.

Our plan for lunch is to visit an Indian Restaurant we visited some years ago, but, we are thwarted when we find the premises is now a travel agents!

We take a very poor second best and have a "Jennings Special", in one of the pubs around the market square, to be fair, it was quite good.

Why does almost everyone who visits Keswick have to bring at least one dog with them? You cannot get moved for the things (dogs, or, as brother John would have it, "shit machines"). Kathleen is put out, when one particular animal, which, for some unimaginable reason she found appealing, insisted on turning it's gaze to me, instead of her. Just goes to show, they (dogs) are not that intelligent if it failed to detect I cannot stand the things.

Wednesday, 23rd March 2016

Home again

Monday 21 March 2016

Keswick and Walking

Sunday, 20th March 2016

The best day yet, bight sunshine and not a cloud in the sky.

We move on, to Keswick.


We have been to Keswick many times, but, this the first time with the Campervan, and, therefore, the first time at the Caravan and Camping Club, Keswick Site

Five minutes walk from the Town Centre, on the lake (Derwentwater) shore, and, great views, very impressed.







Monday, 21st March 2016


A cloudy day, the cloud is well down on the hills, but, slowly in the course of the day, the cloud lifts, and, we even have some spells of sunshine.

No rain in prospect, so, we walk around the lake, just over ten miles.

Beautifully quiet  at this time of year, not too many people about.

With a welcome break for coffee and apple pie at Grange.