111 - sat aug 19 - glasgow/lake district

we left glasgow and our hotel, and drove our newly serviced car back over the border and into england's lake district, which is a district in england's far north that is known for.. lakes. its a very pretty area with 'really pretty little towns' (thats suz there). we stopped at keswick for cornish pastries. we wandered around the saturday market. we found a tourist office and directions to a campground. we got a parking ticket because we forgot to put money in the meter at the keswick car park. crap.

by the time we navigated the frighteningly narrow local roads - lined with stone walls just to make sure you've got no room for error - and made it to our campsite it was pouring with rain. we waited it out, and when there was a break in the pouring and it had downgraded to merely raining, we set up our tent.

back in ambleside, the nearest town, we found gorgeous slate buildings and quaint slate fences. and we also found about half the population of london, who had also decided that this weekend would be a good one to spend getting rained on in the lake district. but we found ourselves somewhere to escape the gloom if not the tourists, and settled in for afternoon tea at a cottage. and we had fruit cake topped with crumbly cheese, which was new, and not altogether wonderful, but definitely it felt british. back at the campsite we grabbed an umbrella and sought out the nearby lake. then we spent the rest of the evening huddled in our glow in the dark tent.