Saturday Morning The Zmurf gets a spongebath outside the Keswick Country House Hotel Peter Fox, a fried of Tom and Dai's- and now all of us- climbs into Lody's passenger seat. Lody's car is from Europe, so I is left hand drive like US Z3s. Tom and Dai named their Zed "Cara", which suits me fine as the mama of Caranostra.org message board for Z3 lovers and other car-loving strangers. Outside the hotel, half of us a dressed for sunshine, the other for cooler shadows. Driving south to Grasmere No one warned me about Sarah Nelson's Grasmere Gingerbread. I was thinking, "Gingerbread. Who cares?" when the aroma hit me and wafted me into the little shop. Since 1854, overlooking Saint Oswald's cemetary where Wordsworth is buried, this converted schoolhouse has been enticing innocent people to become gingerbread addicts. Good thing they are on the Internet: Sarah Nelson's Grasmere Gingerbread ships worldwide. a stop at a "lay by" to pick up more Z3ers We're about 25 now Running clockwise from the south now to there the slate falls off the hills like lava and Kirkstone Galleries, the Slate Shop. You can even get earrings made of slate here. Lody displays his remote control Z3 and spare body for crashes, detailed to match his 2.8 He is also wearing "convertible pants". The bottoms zip off to become shorts. These "Dry Stone" walls can go back to Roman times, in this area usually Napoleonic times. The stones stay in place without any sort of cement. Hardknott Pass 25 Z3s pass by this sleeping dog. Now we are really there. Z3s in a long ribbon spanning miles on twisty roads. Kind of interesting, the Zmurf is the only M Roadster and the only colored car on the trip that wouldn't come in the regular box of crayons. o/ The hills are alive.. with the sound of Z3s.../o Thanks to Tim UK for this pic Crossing the bridge to Hardknott Pass 3 MG avi file Janet Cartledge and Dai Maddock taking pics (girls, would you send me those pics please?) Thanks to Tim UK for this pic As we descend into Hardknott Pass, in the distance you can see a Roman Fort Thanks to DavidM for this photo of Tim and me in the Smurf coming down the hill One must keep in mind while climbing these hills for a better camera angle that this is a sheep meadow... and watch your step... Thanks to Tim UK for this pic at Hardknott Pass Watch out for a motorcycle on the right and sheep out the window... The oil light comes on in Tim's car. Need name in the silver and Gary and Joanne Willn in the Velvet Blue Lunchtime at the Home of the World's Biggest Liar, The Bridge Inn at Santon Bridge. What a wonderful menu for lunch! o/ Food glorious food/o Pn and Tim and our lovely lunch by the river .. and back on the road with the sheep... We assembled on a hill overlooking Scotland on the Northern border of England What is the name of this peak? Thank goodness we had Peter to guide us, we were lost as lambs... er.. sheep... uhm... well... Yep, it really was that great. As we got closer to civilization we rode along with the bikes, and stopped for ice cream. Madeira Jon and Tim UK That burned off most everyone's tanks of gas, so back to the pumps for "petrol", at $50 a tank again. and for the Zmurf, a bottle of oil as well. Now we're 3 full tables of laughing people babbling about the day's run.

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