My week's holiday with Hayat started by meeting her when her train arrived in Edinburgh.
Edinburgh is a cosmopolitan city with international cuisine and I took her to lunch at a restaurant where she would feel at home.
We went to Keswick in the English Lake District where we walked along an old rail trail.
The old train station at Keswick now forms part of a hotel.
Dusk by the shore of Derwent Water, near Keswick.
Another day, another lake, walking on the sparsely populated west shore of Lake Windermere.
There are few amenities on the west shore so we took the ferry across to Bowness where we had lunch.
Back on the west shore, Claife Station was built as a tourist facility about 1780 but is now a ruin.
The view across Lake Windermere from the Claife Heights, looking east towards Bowness.
Ambling around Ambleside.
We drove over the Honister Pass, where we stopped and visited a slate mine.
More to follow shortly.
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