Friday, 1 October 2010

The Beauty of Buttermere


Sunday 26 September- Day two of our lakeland adventure and the morning started a bit overcast. We did have a wonderful, hearty breakfast and we even saw some red squirrells from the breakfast room (at least our hosts claim they were proper red squirrels, they looked a lot like grey ones only a bit orange). After breakfast we made our way to Buttermere. This is a village we merely stopped in on our last trip but I was really struck by its beauty and wanted to spend some more time here. We followed yet another walk from my useful guide book. We saw the impressive Scale Force (waterfall) and then did a circuit around Buttermere lake, We were lucky enough to get some lvoely sunny spells and at one point the water was perfectly smooth creating a mirror like reflection of the surrounding fells. The walk was a gentle one, mostly flat around the lake but had lovely views of the lake and adjoining fields.

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