Sydney International Airport
4月29日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
It's just a waiting game now as we wait for our flight to London and a 7-week stint in England. We will start with a few days in Manchester and Liverpool, then a month touring the Lakes District, thenもっと詳しく
Changi International Airport
4月29日, シンガポール ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
A 2 hour stopover here before we continue our flight to London.
London - Heathrow
4月30日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
We arrived in London right on time and then travelled to Manchester on the train. The adventure begins!
Manchester - Old Trafford
4月30日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
We arrived in London and caught our train to Manchester where it was sunny and warm - perfect weather. After checking in to the hotel it was straight to Old Trafford for a tour of the stadium and theもっと詳しく
Manchester
5月1日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
This morning we toured Manchester on the hop-on-hop-off bus. Manchester is not overly scenic but is certainly historic and therefore really interesting.
Liverpool
5月1日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We left Manchester and headed off to Liverpool on the train. We have great views from our hotel on the Royal Albert Docks alongside the Mersey. After an exploration of the docks we abandoned our pubもっと詳しく
Liverpool
5月2日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
We spent today in Liverpool. It is a great place and we really enjoyed our time here.
We started off with a visit to The Beatles Story museum which was terrific. Then we went on the Mersey Ferry forもっと詳しく
The Lakes District
5月3日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We left Liverpool on the train and travelled north to Preston and then to Kendal in the Lakes District where we picked up Lynne and Kate. Our hire car was upgraded from a Ford Kuga to a Jaguar - veryもっと詳しく
Near Sawrey & The Tower Bank Arms
5月3日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Our home in Near Sawrey for the next 3 nights is the historic 17th century village inn, the Tower Bank Arms. Good food, local beers, heaps of character - all the boxes are ticked.
Near Sawrey
5月3日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Today was spent walking around Near Sawrey, up to Moss Eccles Tarn, along Esthwaite Water and towards Hawkshead. We also visited Hill Top Farm, the home of Beatrix Potter, where she wrote the storiesもっと詳しく
Near Sawrey
5月5日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Today was spent walking around Near Sawrey. We walked up to Moss Eccles Tarn, down through the farms and fields to Far Sawrey, stopped at St Peter's Church and the Cuckoo Brow Inn, before returning toもっと詳しく
Bowness-on-Windermere
5月6日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
Today was a quiet one as we drove from Near Sawrey to Bowness-on-Windermere, which was only about 50kms.
Along the way we had some great views of Lake Windermere and also stopped at the rather grandもっと詳しく
Lake Windermere
5月7日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Today we cruised along Lake Windermere, the largest lake in England. We went from Bowness to Lakeside, then caught the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Steam Railway, before returning to Bowness by boat onceもっと詳しく
Windermere & Orrest Head
5月8日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Another day spent around Bowness and Windermere was a really good one. We climbed up to Orrest Head which overlooks the lake and the surrounding fells and enjoyed its views.
Then it was off to theもっと詳しく
Hawkshead
5月9日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
We left Bowness, crossed Lake Windermere on the ferry and spent the morning in Hawkshead, an old market town. It is a very pretty place. We went to the old Hawkshead Grammar School, where Williamもっと詳しく
Yew Tree Farm - Coniston
5月9日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
After leaving Hawkshead we drove to Yew Tree Farm at Coniston where we will spend the next week. The farmhouse was built in 1690 and is a special place to stay. Beatrix Potter bought it in the 1920'sもっと詳しく
Coniston
5月10日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
We walked from Yew Tree Farm into Coniston, about 2 miles, along a very pretty woodlands path with plenty of bluebells. Along the way we ran into a charity walk - the Keswick to Barrow 40 - which is aもっと詳しく
Hawkshead Hill
5月11日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Another sunny blue sky day in the Lakes. We drove to visit a friend of Lynne's who lives on Hawkshead Hill, with great views over the valley, to have a look at his stunning and colourful garden, fullもっと詳しく
Tarn Hows
5月11日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
A walk around Tarn Hows, which was yet another pretty spot, was a relaxing few hours.
Yew Tree Farm has its own butcher shop and we stocked up on some herdwick lamb and belted galloway beef which Jonもっと詳しく
Coniston
5月12日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
A very relaxing day today. This morning we walked to the Tom Gill waterfalls which was a pretty walk, then to Yew Tree Tarn, which was also pretty.
After lunch at Yew Tree Farm, we walked intoもっと詳しく
Coniston
5月13日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Englands unseasonally warm, dry and sunny weather continues, but we are not complaining.
Today we had breakfast at the Bluebird Cafe on Lake Coniston, (a bacon butty), then went to Brantwood Estate,もっと詳しく
Elterwater
5月14日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
This morning we drove to Skellwith Bridge with the plan to have breakfast at Chester's By The River and then walk along the Brathay River to Elterwater. But the cafe was a vegan one and there wasもっと詳しく
Coniston Museum & Monk Coniston
5月14日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
In the afternoon we went to the Coniston Museum which told the story of Conistons history - copper mining, sheep farming, mountain climbing, the influence of John Ruskin and also of Donald Campbell.もっと詳しく
Torver & Lake Coniston
5月15日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
This morning I climbed the hill opposite the farm to take some good photos and after that we drove to Torver, which is about 3 miles from Coniston. From there we walked down to Lake Coniston, throughもっと詳しく













































































































































































































































































































































































