Monday 8th October – distance travelled 224 miles
We started the day with a great breakfast with a great view. It was such a lovely hotel and room we were sad to be leaving after just one night.
Gavin did the first leg of the drive which was to Falkirk to see the Falkirk Wheel, the weather was unsurprisingly wet and grey so decided we didn’t want to go on the wheel just watch it go round.
Afterwards I picked up a toy highland cow and a highland cow puzzle book for Charlotte as her gift for looking after the hedgehogs and squirrels while we were away. Then we headed to a lovely restaurant just up the road for dinner.
After dinner we visited the Kelpies which are very big and sparkly and well worth a visit.
I took over the driving and we started to head south as the weather started to get even worse and there were yellow alerts being issued around Glasgow and south for high winds. I stopped after about 40 miles to switch from contact lenses to glasses Gavin saw I was struggling and took back over the driving all the way to Windermere. He did a great job in very tricky, wet and windy conditions.
We found our cottage for the next few nights and unloaded the car once again, this time we both have a double room 🙂
