The Lakes District: Grasmere

We decided to do the Lakes District in style, staying at The Landcrigg in the little town of Grasmere. The Landcrigg is a stately country house with a fantastic restaurant and garden. It was also a great place for hiking, being just a short walk from some beautiful fell country.

Grasmere is a quaint village with tiny laneways and old stone buildings. It's heavily dedicated to tourism with many B&Bs, restaurants and pubs as well as shops selling touristy type things. While we were there the BBC was busy filming in the village for some very English show.

Grasmere has another interesting claim to fame being the home of Grasmere Gingerbread - supposedly the worlds first and best Gingerbread. It certainly was very nice. We brought some on one day and made a special trip back to the shop when we were leaving town to buy some more.

Lake Windemere was only a short drive away from Grassmere. With Eric and Samuel both fans of the author Arthur Ransome it was only natural that we would go for a morning drive to look at some of the sights that inspired the Swallows and Amazons series.

After exploring the lake shore we headed up the hills via some impossibly narrow roads to enjoy the picture postcard scenery before returning to Grasmere for lunch.

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