Hill Top and Beyond - July 10

Hill Top Farm, home of Beatrix Potter, was to be our first stop today. Apparently, we didn’t read the guidebook closely enough and the home and gallery are closed on Fridays! Bummer. We could have scheduled it any day this last week, so we blew it since we are leaving the Lake District tomorrow. However, the garden and gift shop were open, so we were able to take some pictures of the outside. One could imagine Peter Rabbit hopping around this garden: The map of the Lake District that we got from Lakeland Village (our place of residence this week) outlined a number of suggested walks, one beginning at Hill Top Farm, so we set off. It turned out to be a little bit longer than we anticipated (2.5 hours) but we saw beautiful views from the west side of Windermere whereas before we had seen it from the east side. I took a picture of the swans for you, Becca. We made it back to the car and went into the little village of Hawkshead where Beatrix Potter’s husband had his law practice.