Day 4 Free Day

So Wednesday is our free day, no planned walks.  Those with cars went for a drive to see other areas and those of us without stayed close.  The Fairfield Mill and old weaving mill that is now a museum, and artisan craft place and a place where they have demonstrations and of course tea room is about a half hour walk down the road so Nancy, Eleanor and I decided we'd start our day there.  We were walking down the road trying to find the path when a car pulled up with Barbara a fellow walker, she was off to another town to visit a cousin but stopped to see if we wanted a ride....hell yes,  did I mention my feet were sore.  We got to the mill and went for coffee/tea and a visit, then Barbara was off and we went to check out things.  They has some old weaving machines that are pretty amazing...wonder how long it takes to set them up.  then up to the craft area, which is full of quilting pottery, knitting, jewellery, felting and on and on.  Yep did find a couple things to buy. We then went to the top floor and found some ladies weaving also an area where we could play around with some weaving if we wanted to.  They also had something called French knitting which if you have ever done spool knitting its like that only on a much bigger scale..  We then headed back to Sedbergh and to the hotel to get rid of a few things.  We ran into a couple from our group and they had found a wonderful store in town that had a sale on fleece type coats so now we had a mission for our travels in town. After checking out several neat little stores, a walking store... Nancy was looking for boots as she has been walking in sneakers, not at all appropriate for the harder walks. we checked out some crafty stores, a book store and a few others finally found the store we were looking for.  They make these jackets upstairs in the store and apparently they are a special fabric made just for them.  So we get in and start trying on jackets, of course the ones on sale are what we like.  Eleanor finds hers right away, mine takes a little longer but I find a matching hat, Nancy has trouble, can't find one in the right size but we find 2 that looks good, one is definitely out of her comfort zone but is nice and then she finds a more conservative one that she really likes.  Neither is in her size but not a problem the lady who owns the place says she can have one made and it will be ready by Friday.  After about an hour Eleanor and I go outside so Nancy can make up her mind.  Of course she picks the conservative one, which I must admit looks very nice.   We then head back to the hotel for a nap.  Entertainment that night is the games I mentioned we did last night. and last night we had a guy in who is an environmentalist who use to build the stone walls, I left part way thru because I was too tired, so heard about the building of the stone walls but missed the part on Wennsleydale cheese and the local wool makers.  A nice relaxing day off and now ready to hit the trails again... no pictures today