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Monday 29 December – part one: wow, this is stunning!
We were awake just after 7:30am, and quickly got ourselves going, as we needed to get the car packed, and ideally I wanted to be on the road by around 9:00am.
My mum was very pleased, as she’d been hoping that I’d be able to get some photos of the robin that also eats the apples they put out, and he appeared, so I was able to finally oblige.
We gathered our stuff up, and the cow went into the boot/trunk fine, after last night’s experiments, and here’s the proof:
We were ready to go just after 9:00am, and set off, with the GPS telling us that it would take us about three and a half hours to get to Glasgow, which was what I’d already estimated, so that’s always a good start when it works out like that.
When we headed out through our village, it was a beautiful morning:
There wasn’t much traffic when we joined the motorway…
.. and the beautiful scenery continued for some time…
… that was until we encountered fog patches:
Fortunately they didn’t last too long and we were soon back into sunnier weather.
Eventually, the car temperature gauge told us that we were above freezing, not bad considering that by now it was about 9:45am.
We headed further north, and we could soon see Lancaster, where my father was born:
The Lancashire countryside was beautiful…
… but we hadn’t seen anything yet. We knew that Cumbria was beautiful, given that it’s home to the stunning Lake District, but wow, I had no idea that we’d see such amazing scenery from the motorway. Isn’t it just beautiful?
And that is snow you can see in these next photos…
We knew that Anne and Sean had raved about the scenery in this area when they drove up to Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games, and now we could understand why.
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That bit of the drive around Kendal in the Lake District is really beautiful. We always have a stil at Killington lake service station and enjoy it an bit
I love that part of England so much! I used to think that Cumbria had the best easy hiking trails of anywhere I'd ever been. Beauty everywhere you look. Thanks for the photos of your little English robin! Ours look like giants next to yours.
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Glad you enjoyed your time at the airport, and were able to find a nice pub for dinner! Sorry about the embers - glad the rug wasn't damaged! Great packing of the cow into your car! Love the pictures from the drive up to Scotland!
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That bit of the drive around Kendal in the Lake District is really beautiful. We always have a stil at Killington lake service station and enjoy it an bit
Is that the one that's owned by a local group - I seem to remember one of the service stations in the area being featured on Countryfile and it was a farmer's cooperative maybe?
I love that part of England so much! I used to think that Cumbria had the best easy hiking trails of anywhere I'd ever been. Beauty everywhere you look. Thanks for the photos of your little English robin! Ours look like giants next to yours.
I still cannot get over the difference between our robins and yours - they're like two completely different species!
Once again, I'm late to the party Sorry! Joining the TR now, though! I love the pics of the meerkats - soooo cute! And the Concorde has always fascinated me
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Seems like such a nice drive to Glasgow and the scenery is just amazing! The hills and mountains are so unique and unlike others I have seen in photos and travels to various destinations!
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Very nice traveling with beautiful sunshine minus that pesky fog, very few other cars, and beautiful scenery! The Lake District always makes me think of William Wordsworth and his poem, "Tintern Abbey," which I taught to my senior English students for years and years.
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We knew that Cumbria was beautiful, given that it’s home to the stunning Lake District, but wow, I had no idea that we’d see such amazing scenery from the motorway. 
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