{"id":248,"date":"2008-10-23T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-10-23T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:22:08","slug":"travelogue-getting-into-the-lake-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/23\/travelogue-getting-into-the-lake-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue: Getting Into the Lake District"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am settled into the lounge at the Sunnydowns Hotel<\/a> in Colwyn Bay, North Wales.\u00a0 I’ve been without Internet access for a few days so will try to get caught up with the trip.\u00a0 Photos are busy uploading in the background while I type.\u00a0 It’s been a busy couple of days…<\/p>\n

We left Stratford on Tuesday, heading for the Lake District.\u00a0 We knew it wo\"Bridge<\/a>uld be a long driving day but planned a few stops, including the various potteries in Stoke-on-Trent.\u00a0 We hit up Wedgwood and Royal Doulton for deals on china.\u00a0 Once we got past the bigger cities like Manchester and Liverpool, we stopped for a late lunch along the Lancaster Canal.\u00a0 We saw houseboats just like those on the Avon River in Stratford.<\/p>\n

The landscape began changing the further north we traveled.\u00a0 Hills lined with stone walls and littered with sheep rose from the road.\u00a0 Then, the mountains appeared.\u00a0 Finally, the road came alongside Grasmere Lake.\u00a0 \"Dove<\/a>Our last stop of the day was Dove Cottage<\/a> in Grasmere, the home of William Wordsworth, and the place he wrote many of his most famous works.\u00a0 He was visited by all his friends here including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas DeQuincey.\u00a0 The house is furnished with original furniture and cases are filled with memorabilia like his ice skates, dishes, and spectacles.\u00a0 Excerpts from his sister Dorothy’s diary for the dates of our visit were lying on the table in the entry room, which originally served as the kitchen.\u00a0 I don’t want to gush too much but it was pretty amazing to be standing in his study, imagining him writing Daffodils<\/a> after coming in from the garden.<\/p>\n

We drove north into Keswick and found our way to the Scales Farm<\/a>, a lovely B&B along A66 with gorgeous views of the fells.\u00a0 We ate a pub dinner–fabulous steak and ale pie–at the Salutation Inn<\/a> in Threlkeld and watched the local pool club play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am settled into the lounge at the Sunnydowns Hotel in Colwyn Bay, North Wales.\u00a0 I’ve been without Internet access for a few days so will try to get caught up with the trip.\u00a0 Photos are busy uploading in the background while I type.\u00a0 It’s been a busy couple of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-40","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}