This short break was based at the White Lion Inn in Patterdale village. We met up on Friday evening, had a nice meal together, and then strolled down the road to the jetty at Glenridding to enjoy the lovely evening.

We walked along the valley southwards through Beckstones and saw the beautiful mohair goats.

We sat for a while by Angle Tarn Beck and then took the slightly higher path to Hartsop.

We walked through the delightful hamlet full of really interesting buildings many dating from 17th Century in the traditional Lakes long house style.

We then walked to Brotherswater, and along the lakeshore to the Brotherswater Inn where we had a welcome drink.

With such a beautiful day and lots of time in hand we strolled up Dove dale to have our lunch in a tranquil spot by Dovedale beck.

Some of us got just a little bit higher up the beck to see a lovely little waterfall.

Then we returned to Brotherswater's far shore, where Sue had a swim.

We returned via Deepdale Bridge and back along our outwards path to Patterdale, making a little detour to the Side Farm tea stop. Lovely ginger cake!

We took the steamer to Howtown and walked only as far as Howtown Hotel where we sat in the lovely garden and had coffee.

We then walked uphill a little to get views over the lake and walk to the lovely St Peters Church at the start of Martindale.

We had a lovely walk round the back of Hallin Fell across meadows full of buttercups down to Sandwick, where we again had a bit of a climb up for views and lunch.

Multi-coloured sailing boats were out in force on the lake.

The lakeshore path undulated and the weather was hot, so by the time we got to Silver Bay we had a long stop and Sue swam again.

It wasn't far from there to Side Farm, where we stopped yet again for tea, ice cream and cake.

A few of us had another evening stroll underneath the beginning of the climb up St Sunday crag and down the lane back to Patterdale.

This was a short walk, due to people leaving early.

We drove a couple of miles up to Aira Force and walked the beautiful waterfall path up the beck stopping lots on the way.

We saw a wonderful spread of orchids in a marshy field near Dockray.

We continued up to Dockray and sat in the garden with drinks.

The owner's wife had made two sculptures of a man and a woman out of chicken wire, which were very effective.

We walked back down the other bank of the beck back to the car park and said our farewells after a very pretty and rather warm holiday!