Once inside the terminal we were early for check in but then noticed the KLM self-serve check-in kiosks and decided that would be just the ticket (excuse the pun). We had already checked in online but this would print our boarding passes for us. So we followed the on-screen instructions and voila! - done. We only had to drop off our bags at the collection point and we'd be set. Uh-uh - nothing's that easy! The boarding passes had printed the original seats ...

Pancakes for breakfast and then it was time to settle the bill and make our way back to Glasgow for our last night of the trip. Four weeks gone in a flash! We were booked in at the Braehead Travelodge as this is nice and convenient to the airport and as a one-night stop is more than adequate, although a huge come-down from Howe Keld. It was raining as we packed up the car and left Keswick but the forecast for all points north was for fine weather so we left the ...

It was a misty start to the day and as I looked out of our top floor window, the fells that I had photographed only yesterday had now disappeared beneath a grey blanket of cloud. The main thing was that it was not raining as we planned to get some walking done. After a lovely vegetarian version of the full English breakfast plus the banana bread and toast and a cup or two of coffee I was ready to hit the road. The plan? To walk part of the way around Derwentwate...

Howe Keld was an OMG! moment. After having come from Wood Cottage where, although the house was interesting and had a certain "olde worlde" ambiance, we were obliged to spend three days with the odour of drains permeating the ground floor from the laundry room and (as a bonus) I struck it lucky with bed linen full of hair, Howe Keld was five-star heaven. We were in the Junior Suite on the top floor and it was all imagined - and more. This was the perfect finish t...

You may be wondering how we came to be in Blackpool when our next stop was supposed to be the Lake District but we were very long on time as the distance between Buxworth and Keswick is just 2 hours and 25 minutes going via Manchester, Bolton and Preston. As our check-in time at Howe Keld was after 3.30pm and we left Wood Cottage at 9.30 am, we had at least 4 hours to kill. Alex had already planned a visit to the last original temperance bar in Britain - Fitzpat...