Kendal; Saturday, 22 July, 2017

I woke up to yet more rain and decided that given how wet it was looking I would try and do indoor stuff in the morning to see if the weather would get any better, so after a lengthy breakfast I headed out into town and over to the museum.

I had a long look round the very interesting little museum with its eclectic range of exhibits from geology and geography to Egyptology and the Free Masons.

By the time I’d finished looking round the museum the skies were starting to clear so I headed over to the bus station and picked up a bus down to Windermere town and down to Lake Windermere at Bowness-on-Solway.

I arrived in time to get a ticket for the next Southbound sailing down the river and have a quick bite to eat before boarding started.

The journey down the lake was very pretty, with the sun slowly starting to appear from behind the clouds as we headed south.

I disembarked at the southern jetty at Lakeside and, as I had a joint ticket for it, joined the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway for a journey along it’s line to Haverthwaite and back.

Back at Lakeside I joined the next steamer which headed the whole length of the lake up to Ambleside via Bowness-on-Windermere. At Ambleside I was just in time to catch the open-top bus out to Grasmere to take in the stunning views in the now glorious late afternoon sun.

I’d timed it perfectly as at Grasmere the bus was on it’s last journey of the day so instead of terminating at Windermere it was due to head all the way back to Kendal, so I was able to take in the views all the way back to the bus station in Kendal in the sun on the open-top deck.

Back in Kendal I headed back to the hotel to drop my stuff off before heading out for a bite to eat and then turning in for the night.