Sunday 13th: walking in lake district. Great weather. Head back to Nottingham

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Most people took a little longer getting up this morning. I was just a little tired, so I was alright once I got out of bed. But some others had drunk a little too much the night before. I decided to do walk 3 today. Walk 5 was cancelled. Walk three looked similar to walk 4. It was just 500 metres shorter but seemed to have a more enthusiastic description suggesting there would be some cool things to see. In addition there was a 'walk 0' this day, for people who for whatever reason are feeling unable to do any of the walks. These people can spend the day walking around the town. It's quite a nice town.

We caught the bus out of town a little way to the side of a ridge to start our walk.

First shot of the day and the weather looks really great! Great contrast to the day before.

We started off walking up the side of this ridge. It was a little tiring, but partway up I took my waterproof pants off and then felt a lot better. They were making me too hot. No need for waterproof pants today. Hooray!

Peaking over the hill is a snowy mountain.

We continually crept closer to this mountain. I asked someone if we were going up there. We were going up there. Sweet!

Crazy wind.

Very windy up here. I just managed to get my waterproof thing on (to block the wind, rather than rain).

Looking back where we have come from.

At the top!

Stomping through the snow.

Having a whale of a time.

To the other side you can see the sea, and accross to the other side. The other side is Scotland (the body of water is more of a gulf).

We stopped here and had some lunch before descending. The ground was completely dry. The sun was out and quite warm. Really great view.

Looking down over Keswick, which we are heading toward.

We walked along the route of an old rail line. We crossed this river a few times.

British engineering. This bridge supposedly won 'concrete structure of the century'.

It was a really nice sunny day and these trees looked especially nice and green.

We're almost in Keswick at this point.

When we got to Keswick someone from my group got a message from one of the other groups saying that all the groups are back, so that when our group gets back they would like to leave, to get back to Nottingham earlier. The people in our group didn't really like that plan. They felt that we payed for a weekend, and we should enjoy as much of it as we could. I agreed. They messaged back saying that we took an alternate route coming back down which would make us a couple hours from returning. So now we just had to stealthily enjoy the sites of the town, avoiding being seen.

We headed to a tea shop, but their tea lounge was closed. They were keen to find a place to buy tea. Then we ran into someone from one of the other groups, but luckily they weren't with the instigator of the plan to leave early, so we were still okay. We headed to a coffee shop. 10 metres from the shop, after crossing the street, we noticed that upstairs in the window was the instigator looking down at us. Our plan was now voided. We went in and said hello to all those people, and the people from my group declared simply that we were going to stay a couple hours at least, to enjoy the place.

I got a scone with jam and cream, and a cup of tea. It was great. I was quite exhausted, so I enjoyed sitting in the coffee shop looking out the upstairs window to the street below. Eventually it was time to leave.

On the journey home I was a little tired. I slept for about 40 minutes. Then we got to Wetherby to get something for dinner. I went to a pizza store and got a 9" margheritta for about 4 pounds. It was very satisfying. We eventually got home and I went inside, got clean again and slept.