A week in the Lake District

Last week I went on a weeks holiday to the Lake District with Mrs R, the Boy R, and the in-laws.
We stayed in an apartment that we have stayed in during previous visits, which is ok although i think we may try somewhere different next time as it is hasn't had any refurbishments in the last five years and was beginning to look slightly tired.

On the Wednesday of our visit the weather was horrendous and the area was given local flood warnings. I had rained over the previous two days and then torrential over the the night and into the morning. We set out to climb a mountain although this was soon abandoned due to the rain and flooding which was greater than anything i had seen before!! I managed to get a few photos which show how bad it was.

This was taken from the car window, whilst driving down the road, the water level in the fields was higher than the actual road level and was increasing, forcing us to give up on our journey and head back.

Mrs R in the car with Anti-social (the father in-law). the water level here is normally about 6 feet lower and whilst we were on the bridge a full tree was swept under. Easy too see why bridges like this were taken out in the floods a couple of years ago.

A normally dry field turned into a lake

A public footpath no more!

We gave up in the end and went on the ale all afternoon

The Boy R was the only one who enjoyed the flooding.

Me, about to toss Anti-Social off the side of a cliff!!

Whilst we were there we climbed a mountain/hill called Castle Cragg and i filmed two short videos of our journey.