We all met in the lounge at How Keld where Heidi talked about the walks and the weekend.

Quite a number of women had never been to the Lake District before nor been on a Walking Women holiday.

We had dinner at the Pheasant Inn where we had a delicious meal. We all felt it was a destination to be recommended if eating in Keswick!

We set off walking from Keswick round the Lake, past Hawes End and Brandlehow Park towards Grange.

This is a lovely walk though old beech woods, that includes wonderful views of the Lake and fells, time to sit by the lake and various lovely woodcarvings, which we all appreciated.

When we got to Grange some had tea and others ice cream.

We all then headed along the other lake shore to Lodore where most of the group got the boat back to Keswick while 3 of us did the full round trip of the Lake on foot.

Some women went shopping, others had ice cream and we met at 7 for dinner. We ate in the Thai restaurant, which was wonderful. Another place to recommend. After dinner we all went to a café bar for a quiet drink before bed.

We set off from Keswick again this time to Castlerigg Stone Circle via Spring Woods and Castlerigg Farm.

It windless and very peaceful. At the Stone circle we marvelled at the vista.

From there we headed down to the old railway line and found our way back to Keswick. Sadly it was time to go home.