Where Do I Begin? - Part 3

So I’d borrowed my husband’s GPS phone thingy (I’m very technical as you can see!) and duly entered in the destination of the hotel.

I’d already decided to travel past Ullswater as I thought it would be a nice little drive.

Yeah, little being the operative word.  It took two flippin hours! (enter your own expletive because I did but I’m just being polite). 

I joke not.  I couldn’t believe it.  My sister travelled in my car with one of my children and mom was behind with my niece with my other two.

Ullswater was beautiful by the way but would have been a lot better without the driving rain and 7 very tired people.  The roads were very up and downy and twisty.  I drive a small family car which wondered what the hell was happening.  

I was climbing these very steep hills and even second gear couldn’t cope.  I’d then shove it into first (much to the car’s disgust), over rev and kangaroo up the hill.

The problem was every time I got it wrong I caused my mom behind (in her four wheel drive) to have to slow down.  Thankfully my sister and I could laugh about it and even tried to make the car drive better by leaning forward in our seats.

I had known before booking the hotel that it was further away than we really wanted, but truly did not realise it would take so long to get there.  And, after all it was the only one I could find that would accommodate our needs.

We stayed at a hotel in a place called Alston (take a look) which is just inside the Lake District.

We got there and it was my turn to feel a little unhappy!

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