Keswick
On my way to Grasmere I had to go through Keswick. From the bus I spotted a nice pedestrian street, which had quite a number of tourists milling about, so I decided to make that the destination for my first excursion. The opportunity presented itself on my first day off. I got a quite expensive ticket on the bus, and walked up to the top floor on it. The view there was breathtaking, and I couldn't believe that this was actually where I was going to live for the foreseeable future. The bus took its time, winding around the roads. When another bus appeared coming the opposite way on a very narrow part of the road, I wasn't sure how they could possibly fit. As if they were the knight's bus in Harry Potter, they still made it work. In Keswick I got off at the main bus station. It is possible to change buses there to go to a number of different destinations. I decided to just follow the crowd. I did have two goals in mind. To buy some more warm clothing, and to get a ...