Our original plan for our second day in the Lakes was to
visit Coniston and climb Coniston Old Man, but, like last time, the weather had
other ideas. It turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year, so we
decided against climbing a mountain, and instead, we headed to Rydal Water, a
lake near the hamlet of Rydal.
Rydal wasn’t somewhere I had heard of before. We just stumbled across it on the way to Grasmere to get some of their world-famous gingerbread. There’s parking at the lake, and after crossing over a bridge, you’re greeted with stunning scenery. The are a few different tracks that you can walk – we chose one that took us alongside the lake up to Rydal Cave.
