Between the four walks we did on this visit to the Lakes, we had a look around and visited a few places that I’ve never been to before, and always thought it would be good to see. Considering we were near to Skelwith Bridge you’d have though that Skelwith Force would be on the agenda, but no, and that is still on my to do list along with Colwith Force! However there was still lots around, and we made the most of our non walking days and the one day that the rain fell. First we headed into Langdale, on the day after we’d driven up. I’d not been here for 10 or more years and needed to see the valley again properly, it was lovely to walk around Sticklebarn and look at the towering fells again. Next was our rainy day, low cloud came in for a visit of my auntie and uncle, they drove up from St Helens, as they do most of our visits to the Lakes. So we first headed to Wray Castle to take advantage of our National Trust membership. before heading to Ambleside to avoid the rain in the pub, the White Lion as it happened to be. The final part of this post was our visit to Walney Island, now I’m not sure why I wanted to go, but I did, its on the end and sticks out, so I’m attracted to those places. I guess liking coastal walking will affect that opinion, but I wanted to go that way, Ulverston was also down that way so we popped in on the way back up. Altogether this is a bit of an eclectic post, but nicely sums up how we wanted to fill in the bits between our walking days. If I’m honest I loved these days more, a bit more free and ‘make it up as you go’ feeling. Rather than the more regimented get to the top of the fell, to tick a box feeling of the others. I guess that comes at some point, as you near the end of a list, and with that, as I finish the 214, I’m looking forward to the freedom of coming here and just heading to where we want to.