What's your favourite bit of the Lake District?

Be it a walk, a drive, a pub, a restaurant, a tourist attraction, owt.

Going for a week on Saturday and although we've been before and got books and that, you can't beat personal experience. Obviously when we booked it we were hoping that spring would have sprung by now, but it looks like we'll have to put up with the cold and the snow.

 

I've only been a couple of times and I'm sure others will have better suggestions, but we really enjoyed the walk from Grasmere to Easedale Tarn

http://www.carfreewalks.org/walks/130/a_lakeland_stroll_to_easedale_tarn

Looking forward to others ideas, we're off with the little 'un in May for a week

Hope you have a great time

 

Hi mate,

Where are you staying ?

Do you mean 'walk' or 'hike' ?

If I remember, your good lady is veggie ?

 

i love Ullswater one of the more picturesque areas i think.

also Grasmere village is very quaint.If you go there you have to buy gingerbread from the little store, the best ive ever had. The store is called Grasmere gingerbread and is near the church.
Dont get it from the gift shops.

also for a nice quite easy walk aira falls is nice too.

 

Staying in Ambleside. Erm, both walks and hikes, but not really strenuous hikes. Going up Scafell Pike is beyond my smokers lungs. My 'good lady' (she'll like that description) is a cheating veggie as she also eats fish.

 

We've had this place recommended in Ambleside. It's a restaurant and a cinema

http://www.zeffirellis.com/restaurant

 

Cheers mate, that walk looks nice

 

if you go upto Ullswater then park in Pooley bridge and have a bar lunch at the Pooley bridge inn, for you the mixed grill is fantastic.

 

Like the sound of the Jazz cafe bit. I bet it turns out to be nowt like I'm imagining.

 

Right my friend ...

There's a bistro/ tapas type place in Ambleside called 'Lucy4'. It's very informal and tucked away down a side street. I suggest you book a table though as it is likely to be 'rammed' over Easter.

Zefferelies is a veggie restaurant that also has a small cinema complex attached to it including an 'art house' screen. Can't miss it it is on the main drag.

The Grasmere gingerbread shop in Grasmere is good but as a previous poster said but form their's as it is the real deal.

There's Wordsworth's grave in the churchyard and there's also his home 'Dove cottage'.

As for walking well where do I begin... there's a circular walk around Grasmere lake, a walk along Loughrigg terrace along with a pull up to the top if you fancy it.

On of my favourite short walks is 'Silver How' from Grasmere. About three hours but it is worth it.

If you want any more ask and I'll email my address and I can scan some route maps and copies of the pages from my 'Wainwright' books

Cheers

Dave

 

Are you imagining it like the one in the Fast Show

 

RedArmy990 is spot on - there is no finer place in the country (IMHO) than Pooley Bridge and Ullswater. I know many walks up there, and the three pubs in Pooley are superb. I have many pictures on FB but you'd need to be my "friend" to see them Highly recommended place.

 

Agreed Aira falls is very nice and I also agree about Ullswater

 

More like The Bada Bing in The Sopranos. Jazz in the biblical sense.

 

Laughing

 

There's a great walk around Buttermere, not strenous at all, just around the edge of the lake. Finsh and end at a cracking pub as well. Put it this way - I'd twisted my ankle just the day before we went to Keswick, and I still managed this walk 2 days later.

 

Grasmere for me.....

The most beautiful part of the lakes.... the do down the pub

 

I went last year for the first time in many years, and did the walk from Ambleside to Grasmere along Loughrigg terrace, which was very pleasant. Also we ate at the Angel Inn in Bowness. We enjoyed it and ate there again another night.
Apart from Ullswater already mentioned we went to Keswick - I'd never been before and thought it was lovely.

 

Always liked the drive to Wast Water - its around the other side of the Lakes, so it usually quieter and close to the coast too. But, the road has some nice bits of 1-3 gradient that you might struggle to drive over...

 

Grasmere

Derwent Water.