A Train Ride to St. Bees, Cumbria

Last night we had delicious Italian food for dinner and then headed back so we could get a good night's rest before our day of travel to St. Bees. I was still awake at 3:30 a.m. Boo. Hiss. I think I finally zonked out around 4:00 a.m. and the alarm went off at 6:30 a.m. for us to rise and shine.

We headed over to the train station and had breakfast there before catching the train to Lancaster -- switched trains -- and then headed to St. Bees.

The train ride was lovely -- I enjoyed all the scenery on the way.

We're at St. Bees now and have enjoyed our time so far here, walking around and eating at a local pub.

The connection at this Inn is slow (although it's a LOVELY place and we do have a connection), so if anyone is following this blog and wants to see the photos -- I've added them on FB instead for today. I made the album public so it can be viewed by everyone.

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Here's some interesting facts about St. Bees straight from "Coast to Coast Path" by Henry Stedman:

"Who Was St. Bees?

St. Bees is actually a corruption of St. Bega, an Irish princess who fled her native country sometime between the 5th and 9th centuries to avoid an arranged marriage with a Norwegian prince.

Landing on England's north-west coast, so the story goes, St. Bega lived as a hermit and became renowned for the good deeds she carried out for the locals. And that's about it really, or at least it would be, if it wasn't for the legends that have grown up over the centuries. In the most famous of these, St. Bega approached the local landlord, Lord Egremont, for some land for a convent she wished to found.

Egremont promised St. Bega all the land covered by snow the next day, which, seeing it was to be a mid-summer's day, was not as generous an offer as it first appeared. Miraculously, however, snow did fall that day and St. Bega was able to build her convent, around which the village was founded."


Hope you enjoyed! That's just a little history of St. Bees.