Lake District musings

16/03/2008 by admin.

Took my caravan to the Lake District where it will stay on the Camping and Caravanning Club’s Windermere site for the next two months. Here is what we discovered:

• The unlovely and usually by-passed village of Staveley is, in fact, quite a place. Seek out Wilf’s Cafe, booming and full of posh people.
• The River Kent here is fast flowing and a match for some of the better known rivers.
• It will be possible to walk from the door to a host of lesser-known fells and avoid the evils of Lake District car parks. I wonder, though, if the Kentmere Round is a realistic possibility from the wrong side if Staveley?
• The club’s claim to have wi-fi on site is overblown. The signal is only available in the vicinity of the warden’s office and they charged me £6 for 24-hours. That is as much as the outrageous BT Openzone at airports and makes my plans to work from the caravan up there pretty difficult.
• Mobiles don’t work very here, either!

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