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055. 27/08/12 ∞ { Monday, 27 August 2012 @ 21:40 } CMT +

Holiday blog part 2! I can't really remember very well what we did, so don't escept a lot of description.

This is where we stayed - on a small farm about twenty minutes out from Dent. It was quite literally the definition of the middle of no where. There was no signal, the nearest house was a 5 minute walk down the round and the only noise was sheep. We were opposite a hill or mountain, I'm not sure of it's name but everyone morning the top would be shrouded in mist. Since we were in Cumbria, and it's quite high up most hills were like this, and we were wierdly close to the clouds. The weather was also constantly switching between nice and warm, to miserable and wet in a matter of seconds. The locals were used to this so I'm guessing it's the standard summer up there. It was also hilariously black at night there. Which is great because there were loads of fuzzy moths and then bad because of motherfucking spiders and daddy long legs 

My room - aka the spider infested nightmare. It looks nice but day two found the bed crammed up against the left (where my bag in) so it was away from the window and the spiders. Also, it was too save me from smashing my head against the beams in the cieling that sloped down. 

This is Aysgarth falls. A set of three waterfalls over an hour walk. The left is the middle falls, and the right is the upper falls! Pretty stunning tbh, especially since you can get basically right up to them. If you're near there, I suggest going!

I think we went to Lake Windermere on the second day. I've been there before but never been on a tour on the lake. It was really fucking window and some creepy dude was staring at me, but we got to see really posh houses - one owned by some really rich dude. There's also a cafe there, idk the name, that did a really nice sausage sandwich. Note, the hill tops shrouded in cloud again.

Another waterfall! This one is outside Barbon(?) and we paddled in it. Yeah not a good idea, when it was windy and freezing. It's also on common grazing ground so we were surrounded by hundreds of sheep.

1st cave we went to - Ingleborough cave. It's a 1.3 mile walk to the cave, via a toll path. I've heard of toll roads, but never paths, so that was a first. The group we went with was huge and full of annoying small children but since I love caves I can ignore it. The temperature inside is about 7 degrees, even though it felt like -100. You had to wear hardhats for safety, and mine was massive. There's also low bits where you have to crouch, and all you could hear was people scraping the hats and then laughing. So after about 3 minutes of crouching the whole group was laughing hysterically at this. I'm surprised there's actually any cieling left where you have to crouch. On the bottom left is a tall skinny elephant that me and Nan found really funny. It's really cute, but Dad couldn't see it. At one point too, the tour guide (who i may or may not have had a small crush on despite his annoying voice) turned off the lights and lit a candle to show us what it was like when they originally discovered the cave. Yeah, when you're scared of the dark, it ain't fun. When he turned the lights on, and I was clinging to Nan, he laughed at me, Dickhead. 

Left - Waterfall near Ingleborough caves. Right - White Scar Caves. Possibly the best cave I've ever been to. I couldn't get many photo's though because we were walking and at one point, you weren't allowed to. It's an 80 minute tour covering 2km. It's quite close to Ingleborough caves actually. We were in a smaller group this time, which was 100x better. The picture is of the first, and the biggest of the watterfalls toward the entrance of the cave. The sound, you can hear a few minutes before you reach it and it is amazingly loud. After that, the path becomes scaffolding which is bolted into the walls, and over a stream, which tbh, is kind of unnevering. It's not deep at all, but fuck it's cold. You can also see through the scaffolding since it's like grated, and when it gets dark - yeah, thats p. scary. There was a hell of a lot of crouching in this cave, getting to the point of nearly crawling at one point. There's also a tight squeeze in which (even with a hard hat) I smashed my head against the rock. With the crouching in this cave, it wasn't hard hats scraping it was hard hats clunking which is possibly 1000x funier than scraping. There was some old dude infront of me who was about 6ft tall, and he was having the worst time crouching. We were both in hysterics at one point, then Dad and Kerry joined in. The clunking is often accompanied with the word 'ow' which does make it even funnier. Right after the extreme crouching, came 87 steps - 44 if you take two at a time according to the tour guide. Yeah thanks mate,  but after that crouching, my knees and thighs are in no shape to take two stairs at a time. At the top of the stairs, in what can only be described as the most beautiful cavern in existance. It was filled with over 10,000 straw stalegtites covering the entire of the roof. He turned the lights off and lit them up with a UV lights, and they fucking glow. They're just so beautiful. The tour guide told us that someone had been married in the cavern, wearing a proper white dress and somehow managed to keep it clean. I swear, if I get married, I'm doing it there. The cavern holds the original entrance to the cave; a tiny little hole toward the back of it. The cave extends further beyond the cavern, but tours aren't allowed that far. Another cave recommendation! Bit pricey, but beyond worth it!

 
I found sheep bones on the last day. And sheep teeth, which are now on my shelf! The cows were ones we came across when we decided to walk to the Dent and got hilariously lost. Staring cows is really unnerving, especially when they then stand up and fucking follow you. 

Places I don't have photo's of - Kirkby Lonsdale, Hawes and some places I can't remember. Those places were more about just going around the town. Kirkby Lonsdale is a posh little place with the Chocolate mine. And Hawes is the home of the Wensleydale Cheese Factory (Wallace and Gromit lmao). Both Nan and Dad just wanted to go for cheese tasting. As I'm not a fan of cheese, I passed. How boring. I'll blog about anything else if I remember it, but I think thats it. I'm not mentioning anything about my family or anything because it'd just turn into a three blog long rant 
song: Utsu P / Lets ride the Happy Train
manga: Gattendou Tenmatsuki / reading
anime: Hyouka ep. 19
anime: Tari Tari ep. 9


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