We always enjoy Coniston and will return here many times no doubt. It’s a warm and friendly pub and we enjoyed our meal before making our way along a track in the dark back to the site.
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Bri wasn’t disappointed!Īfter a full day in Coniston we cycled back to the site via the main road and had tea at The Ship Inn. There are a good selection of ales on draft there. We also made a point of trekking up a steep hill to the 16th Century Sun Pub which we’d missed last time. Last time we’d visited Donald Campbell’s grave, this time we saw the poet John Ruskin’s final resting place (a much larger and ornate affair!). The next day we cycled into Coniston and spent time having a look around the area and shops. We could hear water, but it took us a while to figure out what it was (and that’s before we’d had a drink!). There’s an unusual telephone kiosk aquarium at the front of the pub. We’d visited last year and it was nice to return. The first evening we cycled to nearby Torver to enjoy some good food and ale at The Wilson Arms. We got some sunny, if chilly, weather during our stay, and again got on our bikes to cycle the local area. Once at the Lakeland Motor Museum and again just outside Coniston to enjoy the scenery and take a few photos. This was the site we made our maiden trip to in Jolly last March. It is open all year round, but in winter time only the top part of the site remains open. Our first trip of 2015 was in early February, back to the Coniston Park Coppice Caravan Club Site. We managed to capture some lovely photos of the amazing scenery encountered during our day:. The spot was once owned by Beatrix Potter who later passed it on to the National Trust for future safe-keeping. The Hows are the surrounding small, wooded hills. Until in 1862, a dam was built to raise the level, and with other landscaping the Tarn we see today was created. It used to be three smaller ones called High, Middle and Low Tarn. Tarn Hows is a popular visitor attraction and said to be the most photographed water in the Lake District. It is an often quite steep wooded track up to the Tarn, which was made trickier for us as we pushed our bikes all the way up to the top car park! That said, the rewarding views of the Tarn and the exhilarating downhill return journey by road more than made up for our earlier efforts.
a mile and a half away from the centre of Coniston. We then decided to explore Tarn Hows which we hadn’t done on previous visits. We meandered around and enjoyed a warming hot chocolate and cake at the Bluebird Cafe down by the boating centre at Coniston Water. Suzie enjoyed some great photography too. Our next day was spent well wrapped up and cycling in and around Coniston, just taking in the fabulous scenery on a perfect winter’s day of sunshine and blue skies.
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