TUESDAY 10 MARCH 2015 Week 29
We started this week at Center Parcs in Whinfell, Cumbria, to celebrate a family birthday. It was wonderful to spend some quality time with the clan, whom we haven't seen much this year due to "Living the Dream."
We had a great giggle and enjoyed lots of activities, such as Quad biking. Here I took on the boys from our group and left them for dust on the track - haha -
Even the group leader making sure we drove the bikes correctly commented on how
good I was, and I've never done anything like it before. Great fun.
Del and I had an amazing Saturday morning, relaxing and pampering in the Aqua
Sana Spa. With fifteen different experiences, including four steam rooms with
different world themes and aromas, and four saunas - my favourite was the Greek
one, which warmed dry herbs over the coals - lovely! There was an outside
heated pool and a spa pool, which was heaven and luxurious water beds to fall
asleep on. It was bliss.
When we weren't pampering, we were playing in the wave pool, rapids and slides. It's the first time I've ever been to Center Parcs, but I'd recommend a weekend break there to anyone.
Del and I sadly said goodbye to the family and we decided to stay in Cumbria for a bit longer. We went back to Keswick for a couple of nights because we were so close to the town and it was lovely to have another look around.
We then headed down to Windermere and stayed at a campsite called Hill of Oaks. The name should've given away what to expect - an oak woodland on a VERY steep hill! It was rather scary driving down to the lakeside campsite, but it was picturesque and beautiful, and it would have been perfect if it hadn't been for a guy jet washing the toilet block roof for the whole two days we stayed there. We went on a Cruise on Lake Windermere up to Ambleside. I love this area, having spent much of my misspent youth partying with friends around here. It brought back some great memories, whilst making new ones with my new hubby, Del.
Here's some of the stunning scenery we saw. Sometimes words are not needed and I feel I don't always do this blog justice because I do take so many more pictures, but think you'd all get bored looking at my personal photo album. I just hope that it's interesting or inspiring enough for you guys to go 'Hmmm, I'd like to visit there myself.' or something like that.
Del by Ambleside Village Green. It is all very beautiful and idyllic. However, when we looked around Bowness I was actually quite shocked at how many businesses have closed down. The recession has taken its toll everywhere in the UK. It's time we began to open up our hatches again and crawled out of the financial security holes we've been buried in since 2009! A cute little street in Ambleside - The Lakes are full of towns and villages like this, but I couldn't live here because of all the tourists walking past and taking random pictures of houses!
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