We woke up to light drizzle which had started during the night, still only 10 degrees, so not terribly cold.
Leon cooked us a breakfast of sausages, bacon and scrambled eggs and toast to fill us up for the day. After breakfast the rain had got a bit worse and the wind had picked up making it a little colder, though still not near as cold as we anticipated.
We headed out to Windermere, about 20min South of us. We went straight to the World of Beatrix Potter. This was well worth visiting. Leon wasn’t keen to go but we convinced him and he loved the beautiful displays depicting Beatrix Potter’s well loved characters. Shannon found two gorgeous hand puppets of Jemima Puddleduck and Peter Rabbit to use fgor her teaching.
We then wandered off into the shops enjoying the quaint village. It looked like a fairytale village in the rain and of course everything was decorated for Christmas. We popped into Tescos to buy supplies for Christmas lunch which we will have at the house. We considered going to eat out for Christmas lunch at the Langdale Chase Hotel, but decided GBP95 per person (R1600!) was a little extravagant...so a home cooked Christmas Day lunch it will be!
We drove back to the house to chill a bit and drop off the groceries and to research where to go for a late lunch. After much delivberating, Shannon chose The Albert, a pub in the centre of Windermere near the World of Beatrix Potter. So back we drove to Windermere. By now it was raining pretty hard and quite a bit colder.
The pub was bigger than it looked from the outside and pretty busy! We managed to find a table fairly easily, probably as we had arrived at around 3.30pm. It seems the pubs you order drinks and food from the bar and the food gets delivered to your table, which is numbered.
Leon ordered battered fish and chips, Shan had salmon and Reece and I had ploughman and Mediterranean platters. Well I have never seen so much food for 4 people! The platters were definitely meant for sharing but Leon’s fish was about a foot long with piles of chips, mushy peas and a bowl of veggies. (The Brits seem to like Brussel sprouts). Needless to say we couldn’t finish everything! Though the food was reasonably priced - We paid the same as what we paid at the small cafe in Stow-on-the-Wold for 4 x the amount of food! A total of around GBP50 (about R800).
We headed back to the house after dinner to relax. Leon and Reece are watching a movie, I’m blogging and Shan is busy on her phone. A fun day exploring.
Tomorrow is Christmas Day and there is not much open here. So we will see what the weather is like, if it’s better (though unlikely), we’ll go for a walk down to Rydal water lake opposite our cottage and maybe take a drive. At this stage it looks more likely that we will have a lazy day at the cottage making Christmas lunch......
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