Holiday in the Lake District

24th June to 5th July 08

Tuesday 24th June Left home and made our way up the motorway  to our first night stop on a nice caravan club CL site in Stafford.

Wed Thur & Friday we stayed on another nice caravan club CL site in Preston near where Bernard's sister lives so we spent those few days visiting

Our Motor Home on the site at Preston

Saturday 28 June we moved on up into Cumbria and to the caravan Club Site  Park Coppice on Lake Coniston where we were joined by my cousin Drena and husband Geoff.

This is us on site

These photos were taken at Lake Coniston where the site was

 

These photos were taken right up the mountains and there were some outstanding views

 

 

 

Bernard in pose position

 

These photos were taken at the Keswick Lake

 

 

This was the camping field 

This was the resident peacock he used to walk around he camping field

The wild life and birds on the caravan site was wonderfull

this nut thatch was a regular visitor as well as the blue tits finches and woodpeckers. There was also rabbits and squirells

  these photos were taken in Grassmere

This is the church yard that William Wordsworth is burried

 

Another mountain pass

Geoff with his dogs Millie and Meg

Maureen testing the drinking water it was pure

A lovely waterfall

Jack our dog

And so the end came to our lovely holiday in the Lake District. We travelled home on Saturday 5th July we left Coniston at 9am and travelled the 270 miles back and we were home by 3.13pm we did the driving between us.