Hest Bank and Carlisle

We had a quiet weekend at home this week and we needed it!  Both Matt and I have been struggling with lack of sleep (we both keep waking up for apparently no reason) and we have both been bogged down with our London cold, meaning we are not anywhere near 100% and needed some down time.  Also, Matt was out with the lads on Thursday night and hungover all Friday and I was out with the girlies on Friday night and therefore hungover all day Saturday.  Will we ever learn - well apparently not, but we both enjoyed our nights out so it was worth it!

Monument to the cockle pickers

Saturday morning was football - of course.  Luckily this week it was a home game against Grassington so we didn't have to get up mega early!  Unfortunately the boys didn't play well and lost all their games.  Not sure exactly what went wrong, they are all good players, but they didn't play well as a team.  As soon as they started to loose, they went backwards and gave up.  Oh hum.  Tom came home, had a shower and we headed out to Archer's Cafe for lunch.  It was as good as always.  We then decided to walk over to Hest Bank for afternoon tea and a bun.  We had it in our minds that it was a decent walk, but actually it only took about 30 minutes.  When we got there, we discovered it was closed - the owners are on holiday.  We stayed and watched some trains and then we headed back to the car, had a quick shop in Aldi and then headed home, early night for all of us - think we were in bed by 9.30!

Morecambe from across the bay

Pen-y-Ghent in the sunshine

Sunday dawned a glorious day, not a cloud in the sky.  However, we still weren't in A1 condition and instead of going for a lovely long walk, we decided to go for a train ride and headed off on the Settle - Carlisle train to Carlisle.  It was a glorious ride in the sunshine - Mum & Dad you really should give it a go one time when you visit.  On arrival we headed straight to one of our favourite restaurants: Eaten by Monsters for some grub.

Then a spot of shopping together, Matt and Tom then went back to the station early for some transporting whilst I did some much needed jeans and sock shopping before arriving back just in time for departure (I'm not longer required to stand on cold station platforms trainspotting with the boys - thankfully!)

We got home, had a 'cupboard' tea and all went to bed relatively early again.  Busy week next week!