27 December 2012
Our next destination after spending Christmas at Lake District would be Cheltenham, for an overnight stay, and then back to Bath.
I enjoyed my stay at Keswick so much in my previous visit to Lake District in 2010. This prompted me to do a stopover at Keswick again on the way to Cheltenham.
I parked the car at the familiar car park next to Crow Park and took a short walk to Lake Derwent or Derwent Water. Unlike our visit to Crow Park in spring, there were no lambs or sheep in sight during December. Only ducks, gulls and geese greeted us by the lake.
The calm winter morning made a walk by Derwent Water a much enjoyed experience. Plenty of photo opportunities for the family too.
We left Derwent Water at about 12.15 PM. Daniel took the wheels for the drive to Cheltenham and I got to see a snow covered hill in the Lake District, finally.
The drive to Cheltenham should take about 4 hours on the M6 but it took longer than that. We encountered start-stop traffic on the M6 somewhere en-route. Looked like everyone was returning home from their Christmas break. The best thing to do then was to take lunch at one the rest stops and hope for the trafiic to improve later. By the time I drove into Cheltenham, it was dark.
Our stay at Cheltenham was at the Bridge House, along Lansdown Road. Lansdown Road is quite easy to locate but not the B&B. There was no lit signage visible from the road. So I did two rounds down Lansdown Road before I finally found the B&B. Checking in was fast and then it was off to explore Cheltenham city center and to look for a place to have dinner.
We parked the car along the Promenade which was supposed to be a good shopping street but it was relatively deserted as shops were closed. We saw the popular Hare and the Minotaur bronze sculpture in Cheltenham city centre and a few other popular attractions. We found a Chinese restaurant and it was a welcomed change after the last few days of Western food.
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