A meditative (but also deeply discursive) stroll with Gabi in the Christmas break
Route: Leaving Freda + Ray on Red Lion Square and following the road winding down past the Gingerbread Shop to Red Bank Road. Following that road for about a mile (admiring the shimmering icy moss on the wall-tops), rising slowly uphill, to the footpath down to the lake shore.
Then walking along the lakeshore path, slowly, stopping to let people and dogs pass and enjoy the sunshine and shadows on the lake, black branches etched against them. Arriving at the footbridge at the far end, crossing that (still slippy with frost at almost-midday), following a path around the little headland and back up to the road.
Conditions: Bright, still and frosty (but no snow visible on the tops) - and warm in the sunshine.
Pub? Back to Freda + Ray for coffee (and flapjack for L)
