Holiday in Lake District

Karen and I set off from home in the morning arriving at Syke Farm Camping Ground in the small village of Buttermere, where we planned to camp for a few days before moving on to another location in the Lakes.

We paid for three days (£6 each per day) camping at the tea shop by the farm which is very close to the camp site and then had some tea and lovely home-baked cakes.

Up to now it had been pretty dry but as soon as we parked the car up, the skies opened and it started to rain.

We waited for a while to see if the shower would stop but it seemed to have no intentions of doing so. As the rain got a little lighter, I decided to at least start getting the tent up and first chose a location near another tent on a higher bit of ground. A lot of this section of the campsite was uneven and there was a largish mound of rock and grass which had flat area.

As soon as I had the poles in the flysheet and some pegs in, the rain suddenly worsened, followed by thunder and lightning!

The rain was flowing along the ground and collecting in a pool as the tent was in a bit of a depression (a bit like the weather!) so once the rain again lightened, I decided to shift the tent to a lower and flatter area, which I managed to do.

Soon afterwards there was a break in the rain so we moved sleeping bags, etc. from the car to the tent.

Later on we had a really good meal at a very reasonable price in the Bridge Inn in the village.

Syke Farm Camp Site, Buttermere