We were celebrating our Wedding Anniversary that day. It was a grey day, we were afraid that would rain, but even so, we went for our planned little trip: - Cycling to Beatrix Potter’s House.

To do so we have to cycle down to Bowness, get the ferry across Lake Windermere, cycling up and down, up and down and up again until Hill Top, Peter Rabbit’s Place.

I have to be honest, now I can understand why they call it a PUSH Bike. I have to really PUSH it on all the way “UPS”; it was too much for me to ride.

I already knew something about Beatrix Potter, but visiting her house, the place where she lived and created so many wonderful stories, it was magical. I felt in love even more for the little Tom Kitten and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, they are my favourites.

I also felt very touched to know that Beatrix never had a child. She felt in love for the first time when she was still young, but her parents were against their relationship, it took years until they finally agreed, but, her fiancé got ill of leukaemia and died very young.

That broke Beatrix’s heart. But instead to go deep down in isolation she wrote tales for children, and left a legacy, that I believe is going to live forever.

Fortunately at the age of 46 years old she meets the one who would be by her side of the rest of her life. They lived happy together until she died in 1943 at the age of 90 years old.

The house is preserved exactly the way it was. Unfortunately you are not allowed to take pictures inside.

We left Hill Top and cycled towards Esthwaite lake. As an excuse to stop cycling I got my camera out to take some snaps of a group of cows, including “Daisy” the calf.

“Daisy” found Ale’s hands very dirty and smelly, so she gave her a wash. (Stu’s words!)