Pictures from the Lake District: Sun
Posted by Jackie , 20 October 2010 6:31 AM
A picture of the Glaramara hotel I took on the way back from our hike. We climbed one of the medium height hills in the upper right-hand corner of the picture:
So beautiful, and this was only half-way up the hill!
These little stone walls are everywhere, some even going straight up the mountains! Apparently they were built from stones taken out of the fields themselves, so the farmers didn't have to transport their building materials and they got plow-able land. A good deal for everyone except for the Napoleonic prisoners of war who had to build the walls:
One of our guides brought his new puppy along, Ash. She kept bounding up and down the line the entire time, and loved to play with sticks 2 or 3 times her body weight.
I don't remember the name of this hilltop, but when the area was first settled way back in the day a fortification was built here:
