Our first stop was the Carlisle Cathedral! It was beautiful!
One of the mottos of the town/one of the museums is "Be Just and Fear Not", and I really like this!
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We crossed this cool overpass bridge thing to get to Carlisle Castle! This castle is actually 900 years old! I find it fascinating how this building is older than 3 times how long the US has been a country!
There wasn't much furniture inside the castle, but this was one of the grand master bedrooms from 900 years ago. By today's standards, this doesn't look too grand, but I find it interesting to compare!
It was interesting to see some of the carvings from POWs during various stages from the history of the castle. Prisoners would often carve different drawings or messages into the wall to represent different symbols or ideas. You can see a few of these below.
On a completely unrelated note, we were looking few some tourist information about Carlisle and we actually came across two David look-alikes! Jake says that this first picture looks a little like David from when he was a child, and we think the guy in the middle of the second picture (from a band that we do not remember the name of) looks like what David could look like in the future! Thoughts?
One of our other favorite parts about staying in Carlisle at the place we did was that the owner had a rabbit named Brian! Brian was adorable and I took this picture of him while he was happily munching on the top of a green pepper!
In the evening, we set out to find Hadrian's Wall and walk along Hadrian's Wall Path, which is part of an 80 mile trail set up to illustrate the distance of Hadrian's Wall. Some parts of the path are along the wall and other parts are not, since over the past 2,000 many parts of the wall have been destroyed, but nonetheless, it was exciting to be reliving history just by walking along parts of the path. But first, we sat in these really cool chairs in a nearby park!
The official path marker!
This was part of the trail we walked on that did not have any wall by it. It was a lovely day!
This is a part of the wall (or at least we assume it is haha). Some parts of the park we labeled well, and others we not. We ended up walking for about 1.5-2 hours and didn't end up seeing a lot of wall, but at the very end of the walk we noticed a patch of what looked like some of the wall, so perhaps it is part of the actual wall? We were kind of frustrated because there were also several walking paths that jutted off from the main path, and it was kind of tough to tell which path was the official path and which was just a regular path. Apparently the best sites to see about about 20-30 mile east from where we were, so it is definitely a more car-friendly place to go. And although we visited on a Sunday, Carlisle also offer bus tours Monday through Saturday, so that could be helpful for someone who wants to visit.
The next day we took a train to Windermere and were able to see the lush, green, rolling hills that are iconic to England.
The Lake District area reminded me a lot of New England, and there were several others in the area on their holidays, the British word for vacation. This is the front of the property where we stayed.
We did some more hiking here!
It was very quiet and peaceful out on the lake, so Jake and I sat down on the end of the dock and just took it all in for awhile!
We kept it pretty simple (and cheap haha) in the evening with some goodies we purchased at a local supermarket, so we feasted on some red pepper hummus, fresh baked bread, and some peppers and carrots! (And some fruit and pastries and other randoms things that were consumed before I could take a picture!)
There was also a scrabble board at the place we were staying at, so we had some fun with it!
That sums up our time in central UK, and next we were off to Liverpool! Hope you are having a great day!
Who names their rabbit Brian? Clearly you had Brian in mind when you put "turd" on the Scrabble board because that's all rabbits do - poop.
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