This was the day we left Cheltenham to drive to Ambleside. Along the way, we decided to stop at Stock-on-Trent , also known as the potteries, because this is where the potters had lived. It being Monday, the information booth was closed and so all we got was this map which was enough for us to find the potteries museum where these hands were on display along with these heads and the nice people there directed us to the Emma Bridgewater factory outlet where we unfortunately found nothing to our liking except for this sign for the collection and so we made our way past this vacant lot and captured this street view and wondered if it had been worthwhile to try and negotiate the streets of Stoke and the very narrow tunnel in the parking area to get these few treasures.

Our next stop after some twists and turns was Ambleside where we were staying at the Riverside B&B and so we parked the car and headed for the house where this was our room complete with massive bathroom. After settling in, we took a walk to town with the church as our guide and ambled along the river until this sign directed us over a humped bridge with good river views and we crossed fields with fells, albeit small ones. and walked along the slated path past some beautiful houses even seeing signs for the dog collection and geese at the Giggling Geese but we decided to forgo any of their byproducts before arriving at Fellinis, a restaurant and cinema, where Gatsby was showing and Suzanne and I settled in to study the menu and then order water and wine bread with oil and Balsamic vinegar and her asparagus starter and my potato wedges appropriately chili'ed before her main course of mushrooms and mine of lentil beans arrived. Walking back, we caught this view of the church against the sky and more sings for the dog collection before coming across this unusual structure which wasn't quite explained by this but nonetheless I posed with it before we headed back and called it a day.