Lyme Park

Saturday 10 May 6 miles

Tracey, Jane, Hilary, Carol

We were lucky with the weather once again.
It rained as we got close to Lyme Park, but stopped as we got there.

It was quite muggy to begin with, and seemed to sap the energy. At least we could see the Cage this time! (ie no fog!)

We got up to the viewing point but there wasn't a distant view as it was very hazy. We could see the house and the way we had come.

There were plenty of cute lambs in the fields. There were even some daffodils flowering on the Gritstone Trail, I suppose it is cooler up on the ridge.

We headed down from the ridge. We had our lunch in a sheltered valley near a brook, and the sun shone on us. We lay in the sun a while.

Walking back through the gate into the Park the banks of the stream were covered in wild garlic plants (Allium ursinum). Further up bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scriptus) swathed the valley sides - it looked amazing.

The car park was very full when we returned with people sitting outside in the sunshine - a rel summer's day even though it is still supposed to be spring.

When the walk was finished we went up to the house to get a drink. The restaurant was in a different place - it was along the corridor and into a cellar with no natural light, so it was only when we went to pay that we were told that it was raining hard outside.