our last full day in the lakes! after another excellent breakfast we are off on foot again: first to skelwith bridge, then onwards along the river brathay to elterwater. the weather is nice for walking (i.e., not too much sun, no rain 
and the first part from the drunken duck to skelwith bridge takes us along the little used road to the north, then through a patch of woods until we end up a skelwith bridge. we have a cup of coffee at chesters café by the river (operated by the same staff as the drunken duck, it seems) and then continue past skelwith force through the fields along the river to elterwater. a fantastic walk through rather romantic landscape…
in elterwater we decide against continuing along the value floor and for having a light lunch in the britannia inn…and — enjoying our food, beer, and cider outside, watching people, dogs, and obnoxious ravens — decide to spent some more time here (another round of beer & cider, i’ve to admit to); along the way we win a bottle opener (which causes us lots of delay at manchester airport the next day)…finally, after a leisurely day which we quite enjoyed we are on our way back via skelwith force and bridge to the drunken duck.
all in all a very nice short trip! :-))
