Breakfast at Riverside began with a table of goodies
and this welcoming sign
as I took this fruit
with my fresh orange juice
and these jellies
and coffee (decaf to be sure)
were all represented on the menu
as our main courses arrived
to be enjoyed with locally made brown sauce.
After breakfast, we began a walk down the road towards town and beyond past houses
when we ran into a school group out for a biology project
and passed fields with sheep grazing
and lovely ferns
and moss (gentle reader, this will be all about ferns, moss, flowers, views and the occasional livestock photo; but, all delightful)
ferns
flowers
this ram waiting to be shorn
and then watched the school group cross the stone bridge
and accumulate on the other side
as we marched on to the bridge we were not to cross
meeting this cute sheep along the way
and then we were back to the ferns
and this nicely flowered house
with stone wall
slightly mossed
and then more ferns
before this sign for the dog collection
before we got our first view of the lake
with Suzanne posing in front
and this artistic dead tree
as we walked on through views
and ferns
until we reached the quarried path
and passed the first cave which was quite unreachable
before we came upon the second, Rydal Cave, which is accessible but discouraged
and then we continued our walk as we ascended and so the views became better
and first flowers appeared
along with ferns
and trees
and so it was ferns
flowers
and views
as we began to see Grassmere in the distance
and enjoyed views
and closer houses
before taking this collection of photos of ferns, moss and flowers
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Afterwards, we stopped at a tea house where this was not their wifi password
but we met someone who loaned us his guide book so we could get the story of Allan Bank
along with directions to reach it.
Allan Bank is a house where Wordsworth lived for a few years (as S. T. Coleridge who was falling into drug induced decline lived with them). More recently, it was rented to various tenants and fell into disrepair before there was a fire there. They are thinking of redoing it and invite visitors to come have tea and explore the house and offer suggestions. The one room that has been done, in Coleridge's honor, is the library
with a nice view even on the rainy day it had become
but these were remnants from the fire in the hallway
and this was a tour of the other rooms
with room for suggestions
in quite large rooms
as we admired the floor boards
and stairs
and this note Wordsworth wrote to his beloved
as we entered his study
and then made our way to the kitchen for tea and watched mine develop
as per the instructions
to darker
and even darker
before our teas were side by side
and accompanied by our gingerbread
which tasted even better than it looked.
We then caught a bus where water was sloshing from the upper deck under our feet and arrived in Ambleside where we visited the Royal Oak pub for starters
and then had dinner at Zefferellis, the sister restaurant of Fellinis.
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