28-31 March 2025
Castlerigg Hall, Keswick, is one of our favourite and most visited sites in recent times. We tend to come here early and late in the year and this year is no exception.
It's great being able to book a specific pitch, so no nasty surprises on arrival. We have been on pitch 24 a few times and apart from it being a bit hard to get in to it's an excellent pitch.
Normally we rush down the hill into Keswick and drink as much as we can, but not today. We had a table booked at the Pheasant Inn for 7.30, so we didn't head down until later, not wanting to drink too much before dinner, and our plan worked.
On the way down we passed some goats, including a very young, playful one...
The Pheasant Inn was very busy and we had to wait a bit on arrival, but we eventually got a good table. Dinner wasn't so successful, we didn't get any vegetables and had to make do with peashoots which are really just for decoration. Karma was looking after us though, and we didn't get charged for a £32 bottle of wine. We would have said something if it wasn't for the lack of vegetables, all we got was an apology after the event, not even an offer of a free dessert. It was a very nice bottle of wine, and the pheasant and lamb were nice too.
We got a taxi back to the site.
Saturday
The worst day, weatherwise, so we just walked back into Keswick before it started to rain and made up for yesterday's lack of drinking!
We managed to get into everywhere we wanted to go, which isn't always possible in Keswick. A man in the Wainwright Inn had a really cute puppy which he left tied up at the bar while he talked to his mate. We've never see anything get so much attention and he seemed to enjoy it. We saw them again in another bar later and the same thing happened.
Sunday
It was still very windy in the morning so we postponed a longish walk that would have bagged us four Wainwrights.
Instead we went for a short walk up Maiden Moor, which is the next hill along rom Catbells, which we did a while ago. One Wainwright is better than none, I guess.
We were sheltered from the wind until we got to the top, by which time it had died down anyway, and with hindsight we probably could have done the longer walk. Still, it was a nice walk after not doing much in the winter.
In the afternoon we walked back down into Keswick but didn't stay out late. We had dinner in the caravan.
Monday
No problems getting home.
Coming soon...
Hopefully Coniston or Kendal before Easter.
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