After another one of Pam's delicious cooked breakfasts at the Holme Lea guest house in Ambleside in the Lake District of England, Joanne and I caught a #505 bus to the village of Hawkshead. No double-decker bus on this run ..a smaller bus was needed for the narrow roads in this area. After getting off the bus we had a quick look around Hawkshead (mainly a snoop in a couple of gift shops) and then hopped on the Mountain Goat bus that would drop us right outside Hill Top, Beatrix Potter's home. Beatrix Potter Who is Beatrix Potter you ask? Beatrix Potter is the author of the famous Peter Rabbit stories and just so much more. Back in the days when upper-class Victorian ladies were supposed to wait until a suitable man came along (the sooner, the better), get married, have babies and well... that was about it, Ms Potter did so much more. Not only did she write 30 books (she bought Hill Top with earnings from her books; a woman buying her own house at the time was unhear
Tales of travel from a sixty plus girl at heart from the prairies of Canada.