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Last Sunday I went to Lake District with my supervisor and two other professors from the Department of Physics. We had plans to go hiking, but it turned out we were a bit short on time because we had to go to Manchester in the evening. So in the end we only went for a short walk around the Castlerigg stone circle. Any way, the view very still fantastic.

Lake District is a national park in Cumbria, north of Lancaster. I guess the name is quite appropriate because basically every deeper valley between hills is filled with water. The mountains aren't very high compared to what you see in Slovenia and you hardly see any exposed rocks. If there's no grass the rocks are covered with moss.

The weather changes very rapidly here. In an interval of two hours it went from snow through rain to a clear sky and back to rain again.

This is the view of some of the higher peaks from the Castlerigg stone circle.