Saturday 25 September - After a slightly late start leaving Bristol and a gruelling 5 hour drive North Ian and I made it to the wonderful Lakes District. We headed to our lovely B&B, Thwait Howe (where we stayed last year). Unloaded the car then made for the nearest Fell walk we could find. We parked near the neighboring village of Braithwaite in a viewing area with a stunning view of Bassenthwaite Lake. We then followed a walk in the book of short walks that I had bought for the occasion, through the village of Braithwaite and up to Barrow Fell. We had lovely sunny skies for our walk and we were soon quite warm from a steady upward climb. But we were rewarded with amazing views of both Bassenthwaite Lake and Derwent water as well as the surrounding fells. The colour were amazing as the fells were still quite green in places but also swathed in dark orange ferns which was beautiful combined with the blues of the sky and lakes and the remaining purple sprays of heather. As we ended our walk we had a drink in a pub in Braithwaite before heading back to the B&B before driving to Keswick for dinner.
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