After Sara and I had finished up our jobs in early August, we packed the camping gear into the hire car and headed North for Scotland.

The weather was gloriously hot and sunny which would be ideal for roughing it in the outdoors for the next 11 days. We headed straight for the Lakes Disctrict and the packed campsite just a few miles south of Windermere and not far from the shores of Lake Windermere. That evening we drove up into the hills overlooking Lake Windermere for a picnic dinner on the outskirts of the forest. We turned in ... (more)