Started out the day on the M6 heading north but soon tired of the freeway and took a scenic route through the Wrynose and Hardknott passes through the mountains in the Lakes District. The road was a single lane, winding trail and so steep in places that our little hire car was spinning it's wheels! The country here is truly awesome - bleak, towering mountains covered with heather and shrouded in misty clouds. We stopped at the Hardknott Roman Fort (where I sunk almost up to my knee in the soft, wet ground), the fort was built in around 122AD.
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