Happy New Year to you from the Lake District. The first day of 2017 has been glorious- blue skies all day.
The White Moss car parks have been absolutely packed as visitors from all over the place come to our beautiful area to enjoy our wonderful walks. The guests staying in Brockstone Grasmere cottage are very happy- they can just step out of the door, leaving the car on their private car park, and head off for a hike.
Some of you may follow Brockstone Grasmere Holiday cottage on Facebook. You can take a look at our Facebook page by clicking here. You’ll see some fabulous photos taken by our recent guest, Mark Jarvis, who is a professional photographer. Here are a couple that he took on local walks from the cottage. Thanks to Mark.
Woods near Brockstone
Lake walk from Brockstone
Up on the Fairfield Ridge- a really great hike from Brockstone
Wonderful photos, taken by an expert. From Brockstone you can do the really great hike up and round the Fairfield Horseshoe- 3,000 feet and several hours of hard walking. Do it if you can. However, there are so many varied strolls and hikes in all directions that even a week is not long enough……
Today, the 1st day of January, is supposed to be the day that people think about booking holidays for the year ahead. That seems to be the case, as we’ve now taken three bookings today for the year ahead. If you’re regular guest who wants to revisit Brockstone this year ( and all our guests say they do) please don’t leave it too long or your date may be gone..
New guests- contact us asap. Sadly we’ve just had to refuse a booking to someone who was pipped at the post for his dates as we were in the process of confirming an enquiry made a few hours earlier. Our booking calendar on Home Away is usually up to date, but as the second enquiry followed very quickly on the heels of the first we hadn’t had time to update the chart.
The forecast for the next few days is for more sun, but getting cold at nights. Hopefully there will be some snow on the high fells, as this makes the views from Brockstone Cottage even more amazing.
Happy New Year- we look forward to welcoming you in 2017.