Today, we spent the morning hours getting back to Carlisle from Bowness on Solway, renting our car and getting groceries. In the afternoon, we decided to head south a bit and go see some of the English heritage sites near Penrith. There was a pretty large castle we saw and 2 stone hendges,though the first one barely looked like anything. Later on in the day, we visited a third stone henge which was actually very impressive. It was called castle rigg and had a great view from the center. Also, most of the stones were still in place, 4000 years later.
During the day, we took a drive to the Lakeside National Park, Pooley Bridge, and down to Windermere. The lake area of Cumbria is a very nice place to relax, take in the scenery and do some sailing. We just walked around a place called Bowness on Windermere and found the Beatrix Potter attraction where there is a shrine to the Peter Rabbit tales in place. We didn't see it because some 3d movie there was sold out but did get a few pictures.
Finally at the end of the day, we landed in Gretna Green, where we are spending the night. Gretna Green is famous because it is a convenient place in Scotland and here people who were too young to get married due to English laws could escape and elope in Scotland which had different laws for marriage. Whereas in England, you needed parental consent, in Scotland, you just needed two witnesses, one of which could be the local blacksmith. So, the blacksmith shop is the most popular place to get married in this area. Gretna Green has doneness a good job with commercializing the blacksmith shop here.
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