Arrived at Cononley after some pretty fast Motorway driving, and settled into our cottage. Mrs Coates, the Landlady, had made a batch of scones for us, and told us that we should make a visit to Kettlewell where there was a Scarecrow Festival. The next morning we drove up to Kettlewell and wandered through this beautiful village and were astounded at the number of scarecrows that had been made. Every single house and business in the village had one exhibition or another, and the whole thing was done to raise funds for the local school. My favourite was the one above. We had lunch at the Bluebell Inn and then Carol found that this was the place where the original Calendar Girls had developed their idea of a nude (seniors) calendar.We bought the 2007 version.
The we drove to Wensleydale Cheese Factory and tasted and bought some of their lovely product.While in the shop there I saw a book about stonewalls in Yorkshire. These dry stone walls are everywhere and I found the answer to my question of "I wonder how many miles of these walls athere are?". The answer - some 4000 miles of them!! As they were constructed by one single builders in the main, the mind boggles ast the thought of how long it all took.
Next day we took advantage of a lovely sunny morning to drive up to the Lake District.By chance we finished up at a place calle Haverthwaite where a steam train line connected with Lake Windemere and a steamship cruise of the Lake up to Bowness. Here we stopped off and had lunch at an old Pub which was frequented by Charles Dickens. Carol was keen to see the house where Beatrix Potter lived and we found it just before closing time. Carol went in and I stayed in the car park chatting to a guy from Melbourne. The back to Windemere via the wrong road which meant queueing for half an hour to get the ferry across the lake - but beautiful sccenery and well worth the wait.
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