I am afraid that I will never finish this Diary… I have to be honest: -I DO NOT ENJOY writing in English, I always have the feeling that I am not expressing myself the way I would like to.

Anyway, Thursday was even worse, It was raining, and raining a lot!!

We have no option than to go driving somewhere, we choose Coniston, a little grey town near Coniston Water.


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This place was once a very wealthy town, from Roman times until the XIX Century, when Coniston’s mines went into terminal decline. It is still a very beautiful place, even raining non stop!


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We visited the Ruskin Museum, dedicated to John Ruskin, artist, poet and social reformer, who became the most controversial art critic of his time, and indeed his ideas influenced such intellectual giants as Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.

This Museum has a part reserved for Sir Malcolm Campbell, he strove to set speed records on land and water and became the first person to set both water and land records in the same year.

He was killed on January 4, 1967, when Bluebird K7, his special boat, flipped and disintegrated at a speed in excess of 300 mph on Coniston Water in England. However Mr. Woppit, Campbell’s teddy bear mascot, was found among the floating debris. The story of his last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television drama “Across the Lake” in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Campbell.

The miniature town was built in the Museum garden:


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It didn’t stop raining, what makes difficult to take photos, also something stick on the camera lens, and I have to take all the photos using manual focus.

We left Coniston and following the clouds, as we went up hill we literally drove into them, it was a wonderful feeling, I ask Stu to stop and went to “walk through the clouds”!!

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Next to Lake Ullswater I saw a sign from the National Trust, point to a car park for visiting Aira Force Waterfall. It was a bit to late to stop, but Stu made a U turn and we came back to the place I saw. It really was worthwhile, the place was magic, we walked through the trees until we reached the stream and waterfall, it was not a “Foz do Iguacu”, but it was really beautiful!

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By the way, at this point the rain was so bad the we were totally wet.