Following our walk on the High Stile Ridge the day before, a relaxing day looking round Keswick seemed a good idea.

I had heard about the Pencil Museum when we were on our walking holiday in Borrowdale, but we had not previously had a chance to visit it.

Today we parked at the Lakeside Car Park and walked through Hope Park to the Pencil Museum, where we spent a couple of very interesting and informative hours, before walking along to Fitz Park, where we had hoped to visit the Keswick Museum. Unfortunately, being out of season, it was not open, so that will have to wait for another day.

Instead, we walked back to Booths Supermarket, where we had a delicious lunch, followed by a visit to the Teapottery, a place we had passed often and which had fascinated me but again we had never had time to visit, so this was our chance to see all the weird and wonderful teapots for ourselves. Needless to say we came away with one of them!