(The 2 remaining) Queens of Cool (Hana and Šarka): Photos 3:

Keswick 1: Rowing on Derwentwater: I was a bit apprehensive about this particular trip until I discovered how good Š&H were at this! In the background you can see Skiddaw.

Keswick 2: Hope Park: Artistic photo of the week: Sunglasses (photo by Šarka)

Sandscale Haws: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-daysout/w-daysout-coast/w-daysout-coast-northwest.htm

South Lakes Wild Animal Park: http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_home.asp
The lemurs were our favourites. (Photo by Šarka)

Kendal: Street dancing (part of a programme organised by Kendal police to provide holiday activities for teenagers): H&Š with freelance dance worker Lucy Everett and her young friend Laura. The words Lucy used to describe their dancing were: 'fantastic' and 'fabulous'!

Maryport: Fish and chips - great idea, Š&H! Thank you.

Čapek's Cumbria/Cautley Spout (a waterfall)1: In his amazingly perceptive description of the Lake District the Czech writer Karel Čapek focuses on the animals he saw there. The chapter ends:
"Only the Sheep,...." (photo by Šarka)

Čapek's Cumbria/Cautley Spout 2: "...Cows,..." (and earlier in the chapter he describes them as reddish, so I guess he's thinking more of Highland cattle - but to leave out this photo on those grounds seemed, I don't know....just a bit 'breed-ist'....) (Photo by Šarka)

Čapek's Cumbria: Cautley Spout 3: "...and Horses ruminate on the beauty of Nature deliberately and without haste"
(Cz: jen Ovce, Krávy a Koně žvýkají krásu přírody rozmyslně a beze spěchu)

Sources: English translation: Letters from England by Karel Capek (tr Geoffrey Newsome 2001; published by Claridge Press) http://www.borders.co.uk/book/letters-from-england/38004/

Czech original @ http://cs.wikisource.org/wiki/Anglick%C3%A9_listy/Jezern%C3%AD_oblast

Dearham, near Maryport: Lakeland Heavy Horse Centre: Hana's new friend Billy (photo by Šarka).

Cockermouth: Main Street: The orange building on the right is the childhood home of the poet William Wordsworth.

A parting gift: I found this on the landing after coming back from leaving the girls at the airport. So now I guess the Coach House has its own beach! Thanks for this, H&Š....I'm going to leave it there!

More photos next week,

A& A (Anna, from Witten in Germany, who arrived on Tuesday)