Portinscale

Another beautiful day here, which is unusual as The Lakes district receives the highest rainfall in all of England.

I bravely dug my shorts out of the suitcase, laced up the hiking boots & we jumped on the bus to go to Buttermere Lake which is 45mins away on the other side of the mountain range. As the roads are so narrow around here, they are trying to reduce the number of cars using them by offering a very cheap bus service which runs in a loop around the nearby lakes & villages & through the mountain pass. It was a very scenic drive & we appreciated the skills of the bus driver as he manoeuvred the bus around the tight bends & squeezed it through impossibly narrow sections of the road especially when oncoming cars wouldn’t back up.