It’s great fun to go for a day out – it doesn’t really matter where, just a change from the phones ringing, the everlasting emails and the computer that we are tied to, and invariably leave on for the best part of twenty four hours every day.
It is difficult, sometimes to know where to go, as we are always conscious that we need to take the mobility scooter and insurance with us. The scooter is a wonderful invention, and in fact, we wouldn’t get out without it. However, try driving one round the revolving doors in the occasional hotel or old-fashioned store. It makes for an interesting time and we know that we have other people laughing at our exploits sometimes. Even the little pub in the village causes difficulty as the outer door leads to a vestibule with a door immediately to the right. Now taking the fact that the levels aren’t exactly the same throughout, there can be a few words spoken which probably shouldn’t be, well, definitely not in polite company.
No matter, the landlord knows us and someone always helps. This is a problem which happens when you mix older property and new machines – one wasn’t designed for the other!
We like to go to Windermere, and always take the mobility scooter and insurance with us. The pavements are quite narrow in the town and also quite steep, particularly when you are going down to Bo’ness and the edge of the lake. It’s a lovely area to be in, and during the summer months full of tourists. We usually go out of season otherwise I can be lethal at driving over feet when there are a lot of folk around.
We go to the lake and the geese are there sometimes hissing away, yet at other times they completely ignore you. There’s no logic to it. Not sure that they appreciate the mobility scooter though as it travels quietly towards them. Yet again, the cafes are all quite small in Windermere and it can be difficult to squeeze through the doorways on the scooter. However, it’s too precious to us to leave outside, even though we have mobility scooter insurance in case it is ever required.
We like to take the ferry across the lake so that we can go to Hawkshead which is another pretty village, one which is particularly loved by Japanese tourists throughout the year and not just during the summer months. We are fortunate to live in such a lovely part of the country and we wouldn’t want to move to any other place in the world.