Ambleside Vacations, Ambleside Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

I got up in the morning, and noshed on my leftovers from the night before, and then caught the hostel shuttle out to Ambleside. I was really excited about this hostel, because the pictures I'd seen of the building on the internet were quite posh looking. It turns out (as I learned MANY times over the course of this trip) that appearances can be deceiving. The hostel in Windermere was no great beauty, but it was super nice, and the bedrooms were modern and clean. We even had our own ...

We slept in a little following the big night of jigsaw action so it was a bit of a rush getting up, showered, packed, breakfast and checking out.  We sort of followed the same plans as the day before and just drove around seeing the sights.  Spent an hour or so driving around the Lakes down little lanes, up and down hills and checking out all the farms and views from the top of the hills.  It was very nice to get off the main roads away from all the cars and holiday makers...

The lake district

My day started with a bus ride through the narrow winding roads of the Lake District - slightly unnerving when the bus speeds round corners of the supposedly-two-lanes roads - we did come face-to-face with a rather large truck & the bus had to reverse a few hundred metres up the road to get to spot to allow the truck to pass.  I spent the morning ambling around Ambleside (oh I'm good with words...) and then headed up to Stock Ghyll Force (a failry meagre waterfall, but a nice strol...