Lake District

British people are with wonderful humour. I told them my meter reading and cleared all the bill, still they came out with a new bill. This time after the 2308 pound incident, they gave me discount!! Now its 786. Well, you know google run out of middle finger images la !!


A little bit earlier, just before I called British Gas, I organised a trip to Lake District. This was our post exam trip in June. Lake District is the place to be for an escape + (plus) an adventure! To those who figure out where to visit England, I recommend Lake District. Its beautiful and reasonably cheap, compare to you know Scotland.

Lake District, is not a resort or a town. Its a HUGE AREA (district) with England's largest lake and national park. There are many many lakes and places to go. I choose Windermere, the largest lake. Here we were, a small backpacker's hostel in a small town named Ambleside in Windermere. 

I choose backpacker's hostel because is cheap!! 20 pounds per person for 3 nights, self-service breakfast included. The downside is, you might have to share room with different people. But, we as a group get a room for ourselves for the 2nd and 3rd night.

We took a train to Windermere Station, disembarked, had some lunch and took a local bus straight to the hostel. The public transport even in a small town like this is very convenient.

The tea in Windermere town that afternoon, was great!
I had scampi

The name scampi sound so cute right? Yea... its what they called "king prawn" breaded and fried.
Some of them had scones.

Its so awesome, no Delicious can fight. hahaha

This was the cafe

The 1st day was relaxing and we took a walk around the area.

While these two were trying to fight....
We found some writing on a bench. Omg a romantic message!

" Tom I come back to try and find you. Not a day has gone by which I have not thought of you. Love you."
Tanya from Canada.

Actually there were more message written down describing how they met and had a great time. There was even a message saying it was the 2nd time she came back! Well these messages dated some 10 years ago. WoW!



The 2nd day, we went for our first adventure. A bike trip around the whole lake. Guess what, it was an exhausting, 42miles journey. What we got was a mountain bike and a map. Thanks to iPhone with GPS, we managed to track down even the small dirt path.

Poor thing Melissa seldom be in the photo because this is her camera.

When I first got on the bicycle I PKed. Grr. I tumbled and fell on the tar road. I had to argue that its the brake's fault. Normally rear brake is on the right hand side right? right ? Well my friend laughed and told me its always on the left. WTH I got Aaron to agree that its on the right okay....

The result? pain + pain for 42 miles of ride.

We seemed to get lost all the time.

And there seem to be a person who always dont give a damn about where she is.

I kept laughing when the other guy fell as well. He had a minor dizzyness.

Not to say, he fell the 2nd time after trying to ride with one hand through rocky roads. Lols

A guy who always laugh at other person's mishaps.


The road trip was really scenic and tranquil.

We were lost again somewhere near a castle....

Because of losing our way all the time, we didnt get lunch, we were totally exhausted.

But I caught Melissa camwhoring. Hahaha!

That night we went for a satisfying dinner. All of us had a 3 course meal !! And I'm not joking, English take their 3 course defination really seriously.

Can you imagine that? This is a starter! Smoke salmon salad.
And there were salad prawns..

Then it came the main course

 

And desserts

The 3rd day, we went kayaking on the beautiful lake.
It was fun, but tiring because to kayak to the other side of the lake takes like half an hour.

We waved to alot of yatches and boats and cruises.

Funnily, a group of people on a boat greeted " Konichiwa" to us.

Nah, nobody brought a camera to kayaking except for one funny guy. The above pictures weren't fake, but its just after we came on shore....

There, we were, the happy moments in Lake District!

 

That funny guy missed his train on the last day when we went back, and dropped his iPhone into the lake.

But, I have got to say, William , iPhone rocks! It saved our life when we were lost with good GPS navigation. Besides, it saved itself after drowning in the lake. I can't believe it , my friend dried the phone, and now its fully functional.