Day 4 - Grasmere

Today were are spending the day in Grasmere, the home of William Wordsworth, the poet. It is a busy jumble of slate and stone buildings jammed with tourists. Think Niagara-on-the-Lake with narrow streets and sidewalks. The town is surrounded by green hills with large homes, huge stone fences segregating the mooing cows and dopey sheep.

After tending to my foot blisters, we walked into town and wandered the shops and souvenir outlets.

Very pretty in places when you could get away from the crowds.

Again, lots of dogs strolling with their owners. Dogs are welcome everywhere.

We stopped for lunch in a lovely cafe. The smoked salmon was terrific.

A little more walking about and then we went to check out a pub for tonight. Looks like a great selection of beers and a good menu but I'm not sure of the guy at the end of the bar in a furry onesie?

From here, we walked back to the Inn to rest for tomorrow and give me chance to catch up on the blog. The internet is really slow so it has taken a long time to upload the last two days of posts. This is the view across from the Inn and I could hear the cows mooing as I wrote the blog.

I had to move to the bar area to get a good enough connection to upload the post so it was time for a pint while I watches the upload progress bar moooooving sloooooowly across the screen.