Peak district

Last weekend I was very happy to get the chance to visit the Peak district together with my landlady and her boyfriend. We drove there through a beautiful wavy green landscape with nice view to do walking in Castleton.

We started walking along one of the green hillls. It was like I imagined the English countryside with green hills, stone houses and sheep. The road was wet and slippy, but it didn't rain as we started to walk.

These are all picture from when there was nice weather, but as we had walked a little bit more it started to rain. We rested in a cave to eat some sandwiches and hope that the rain would fade out, but instead it started to rain even more. Then we decided to turn around and not continue walking since the road would be quite dangerous to walk on.

To escape the rain we decided to go on the guided tour in Speedway cave, which was very exiting since it was like a combined mine and cave, and since it got flooded as the mine went into the cave system the tour was on a steel boat in the old mine tunnels. I will write more about the cave.

After the visit to the cave we went to eat tea and scones. It was very nice with tea, scones, strawberry jam and whipped cream that was almost like butter, and it was all very English.

On the way back we drove past Chatsworth House which is a big house of the same type as the one in the TV-series Downton Abbey.

It was a nice day trip even though there was a lot of rain that made us change some plans. I highly recommend a visit to the Peak Disctrict and if I got a chance I would like to go there again.