Kentmere? No! Staveley!

Having realised we had a full day to go walking today we'd decided to try a walk to Kentmere reservoir. We've not been to Kentmere before, so it seemed like a good idea. At the time.

We took DD to work then headed north on the motorway, arriving at Kentmere quite early for us.  Obviously not early enough. Not realising how few parking spaces there are there, we found there was no room for us in our van. A lovely man offered us space on his drive, but his house was up a steep hill with not enough turning room for the van, and being on such a steep hill I was staring to panic, and I was the one driving! So back down the hill we went, back towards Staveley. We've done a walk round Staveley before so we parked up near the Hawkshead brewery and finally set off walking. 

And what a walk it turned out to be! We headed up towards Potter Tarn and it was lovely. 

After reaching Potter Tarn ....

.....we headed towards Gurnal Dubs. We had blue sky for much of the day, with both of us down to short sleeved tops (is it really nearly December!?!) ......

....with some lovely views ...... 

.....stopping for lunch as it started to get a bit hazy in parts 

Then we simply turned round and headed back, walking round Gurnal Dubs…….

....and back towards Staveley.....

......as the light was fading .....

Despite a disastrous start to the day we've had a fabulous walk.