The incredible journey?!?

No Olympic athlete’s got anything on the marathon we completed yesterday! It should have taken six hours, including lunch stop, to get to the Lake District but it took twelve and we didn’t arrive at our cottage just outside Kendal until 10pm.

We foolishly believed the satnav when it said that the M25 was practically closed and it sent us on the most bizarrely ridiculous route straight through central London! We went through Brixton, skirted Westminster, we saw the new ‘Marble Arch Mound’ up close, crawled along the Edgware Road and, three hours after we set off, we popped out onto the M1… after which we went even slower for the next nine hours. It was worth it to wake up to this view this morning, though!

We spent today exploring Kendal, including walking up to the castle to admire the view (I’ve put a couple of other pictures in the ‘extras’). Going further afield tomorrow but, for tonight, a barbecue and hot tub beckon!