Day 143 - Lake District I

Weekend trip with Royce and Yifan to Lake District. I wanna see it, as all those who have studied in UK says that it is "damn nice! must not miss". Royce wanted to see what's all the hype about before he returns to Singapore for good, while Yifan don't mind a weekend trip.

Anyway, both Yifan and I met Royce at Kings Cross after he came to London from Cambridge. From there, we took a 20mins stroll to Euston Station, which the rail website wanted to charge Royce £4 to transfer from Kings Cross to Euston via tube. Took a Virgin rail train, and finally changed to alight at Windermere.

Anyway, apa Lake District? It's a conserved area with lots of Lakes (hence the name), which many call it an area of outstanding beauty.

Windermere Lake, the largest and longest lake in England. ENGLAND, not UK.

Lunch. After which, we walked to Ambleside and began our hike. Couldn't check into our YIH hostel at Ambleside as they handle check in only from 2.30pm onwards.

We picked a route on the crest of a ridge. Technically we'll be walking on a watershed. That's Lake Windermere in the background

Yifan hiking for the first time, but he's always way ahead of us.

Taking a break. Weather's really hot, which is good, cause none of the people I know went to Lake District with clear blue sky. It is common in Lake District to have really bad weather.

Yifan is always way ahead.

Really hot and really thirsty. Royce wishing that he could drink up Lake Windermere.

Future Lesson Material.

Fake Wall of China. These are actually sheep wells.

Boulevard of broken bricks

We were exhausted after reaching about 670m in height and decided not to go on anymore.

Royce's Totoron as usual

Initial Plan is to loop around the crests, but looks like it aren't worth it to go up and down the crest. According to the map, we're going up and down about 200m.

the drainage basin whose watershed we were climbing on.

On the way back. It's 640pm

Dinner at YIH hostel. Vegetarian burger. When we were checking in, a lady heard us and said "Singaporeans right?" Turns out she's a tour guide taking a group of Crescent Girls (or was it Cedar Girls) for their overseas trip. Literature trip, visit the birthplace and graves of authors and watch a play in the reconstructed Shaksphere Globe Theatre. Someone please enlighten me how this help in the learning of literature. If you visit the place which the novels are based on, then I would understand. But birthplace and graves of the authors?

Chilling out at the lake. It's 9pm.

View from our room. We asked for a dorm room, but it has only 3 beds. Just nice for us. And the girls on the school trip were busy photo whoring next to the lake, giggling away.

Our 3 bed dorm room.