During our winter break we decided to take two one-week trips of very different styles. The first week we went to the small town of Caldbeck in the Lake District in the UK, rented an amazing cottage, and promptly got snowed in for the entire week, which was just fine with us. For us, this region in the UK is always snow covered in December, but according to the people we met along our many walks across farms, it almost never snows, so we were lucky to have this snowy paradise.
The setting was incredible - snow covered farms, rolling hills, stone buildings, and very off the beaten track.
Each day we went for a nice hike through the snow covered farmland through the network of public footpaths that gives the public the right to traverse private farms. It was so incredibly beautiful and fun.
When we weren't wandering among the sheep and horses on the farms, we wandered a bit around the tiny town.
We are still enjoying the small things as well, like the different types of town names and the different signs that are used to regulate our behavior.
And each night we watched DVDs, ate more chocolate than should be legally allowed, slept late, sat by a fire, and enjoyed being out of wifi and mobile phone range. We only barely saw a lake one day (this was the Lake District), but we didn't care at all - it was a week of relaxing family time embedded into a year long trip that is already very rich with family time and adventures.
Our kids have been amazing adapting to a new place and getting on in school so seamlessly and this week to Caldbeck was a celebration of those accomplishments.
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