Photos of the area


Around Limefitt Park - Near Jenkins CragAround Limefitt Park - WIndermere with rainbowAround Limefitt Park - View from Wansfell PikeAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck GardenAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck GardenAround Limefitt Park - UllswaterAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchyardAround Limefitt Park - TownendDSCF1561Around Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchAround Limefitt Park - Cattle on the fellsAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck TongueAround Limefitt Park - View from WansfellAround Limefitt Park - View from Ill bellAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchyardAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck TongueAround Limefitt Park - WindermereAround Limefitt Park - UllswaterAround Limefitt Park - Limefiit from aboveAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck Churchyard

Together in Electric Dreams – Lake District Cycling The Easy Way

This week I tried out one of the new activities that have recently taken off in the Lake District – Electric Cycling.

Electric Bike at Limefitt Park

There are two types of electric bike available in the Lakes just now, the most obvious difference being the charging capacity. The ones with the lower [...]

Windermere walks – always something new

Yesterday Tom went to the Windermere Air Festival with friends and we took the opportunity to do our favourite walk around Dubbs reservoir.. We do this walk a lot but we never get tired of it as there is always something new to make it interesting.  As we climbed up from Limefitt Park the [...]

EveryTrail – Walks around Troutbeck for your Iphone!

We’re quite excited to have found an app for the Iphone that makes great use of the built in GPS. It’s called EveryTrail.

We have added one of our local walks to it today! Here is a link to it.

Threshthwaite Mouth

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Windermere Lodges – Meet The Owner Video

Over the last month the guys at Getaway Earth equivalent for after you’ve watched the Windermere Lodges video.

Like most owners of self-catering properties I struggle with some fundamental questions on a depressingly regular basis. How do I differentiate myself from the ever increasing number of similar properties that are available in the same [...]

New Year 2010 Availability at Troutbeck View, Limefitt Park

Our newest, biggest and most luxurious lodge still has availability for Christmas and New Year. Please note that we don’t allow dogs in Troutbeck View

Troutbeck View for the perfect New Year Break

If you are thinking of celebrating that time in a cosy lodge in the Lake District don’t leave booking your [...]

How's this for a restaurant view?

We went to the Mortal Man last night for a family dinner. For a change we sat in the restaurant rather than the bar and we enjoyed this view from the table.

View from The Mortal Man Restaurant

Stunning!

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August availability in our brand new lodge - Troutbeck View

I’ve been a bit quiet of late as we’ve been away on holiday and as soon as we got back we had to get into preparing our new Troutbeck lodge – Troutbeck View. We’ve been putting our backs into it all week and we now have my sister in law “road testing” the lodge [...]

Falconry Display and Pony Trekking at Limefitt Park, Troutbeck

Today at 2 pm they are going to be flying hawks here at Limefitt Park in Troutbeck

You can see some of these beauties.

Falconry at Limefitt Park

Midnight

and my favourite, thomas the American Kestrel

Thomas

Oh yes – and there’s free pony trekking for the kids [...]

Foxgloves and Cobwebs

I took Suki round Ing Bridge yesterday for the first time for a while. Recently we’ve all been a bit pre-occupied with getting the new Lodge, Troutbeck View, up and running, so it was good to get out even though it was a bit overcast. The hedgerows seem to have erupted since I was [...]

How to take Better Photos in the Lake District

People do ask me sometimes “why do you bother with Twitter?”

There are several answers to this, but one of the most important is the way it helps me to meet other local people who are also involved in the tourism industry. One of these is Mark Elliott who runs “Better Photos” ( http://www.better-photos.co.uk/ [...]