“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific.’
I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit.”
–The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter
Today started out with getting up at half-eight (8:30) and eating a breakfast of porridge (with honey), toast with butter and jam, and a glass of grapefruit juice.
Speaking of food, want to know what I had the night before? Three cups of tea, two glasses of grapefruit juice, a vegetable lasagne (which didn’t really have noodles, so it was kind of a cheesy lasagne-type filling) with turnip, eggplant, and leek in it, roasted beetroot (beets), and lemon crumble with ice cream and cider-flavored cooked apples.
Before making the drive to the Lake District we stopped at Brimham Rocks, which are rock formations that have been eroded into all sorts of interesting and fantastical shapes. Climbing one for this shot proved terrifying.
To see more pictures of Brimham Rocks, click here.
After that, we headed off to the Lake District which is about what it sounds. Windy country roads between little towns, field of sheep, little slate buildings (the houses are made of slate rock in the Lake District), and of course, lakes. It was a very pleasant drive, including a ferry trip that was really nice. While mostly gray, the visibility was good for most of it, and was only at the very highest hills (which weren’t that high) that we entered little fog banks and weren’t able to see the rolling sheep-speckled hills around us. A couple places of note include Ambleside, which is where Beatrix Potter lived, as well as passing Dove Cottage, one of the places where the poet William Wordsworth lived. We also visited his grave as well.
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