Route: leaving the cottage and heading north and west round Fellbarrow past Pardshaw and Mockerkin and then along the A5086 to Rowrah in heavy rain stopping at the amazing (as seen on TV – twice – and only 12 months old!) Ennerdale Brewery tap for a half pint. The joining the tarmacked ex-railway line cycle track to Moor Row and then along further cycle tracks and minor roads to Egremont hoping for another beer south of the town but finding that pub shut and the pubs of the centre presenting merely a rather depressing set of options. Shaking the dust from our sandals and taking a quiet low road north along the other side of the valley to Ennerdale Bridge for a pint. Then back via Loweswater and the Thackthwaite road home.
Conditions: light rain becoming heavy. Later sun hints of sun.
Pub: Ennerdale Brewery tap, Rowrah, for half pints of Ennerdale Pale and an experimental Amber Bodied Fruity IPA (so new they hadn’t named it yet). The Fox and Hounds, Ennerdale Bridge, for Ennerdale Blonde and Wild.
