Keswick and the North Lakes
offers a multitude of activities and events to cater for all tastes. Whether you
like Guided Walks around
Keswick, watching
Osprey, shopping, wining & dining, enjoying a play or concert at the Theatre
by the Lake, culture, nature, fishing
or more strenuous activities, Keswick and the Northern Lake District has lots
to offer.
Main attractions
within easy walking distance of Swiss Court are the tropical
indoor pool at Keswick Spa, Cumberland
Pencil Factory, Keswick
Cinema, Keswick Market and the many shops, pubs and restaurants
in the town centre, and of course Derwentwater itself, and on
its shores the lovely Theatre by the Lake.
The 11th
Words by the Water Festival is from Friday 2nd - Sunday 11th
March 2012, a festival of Words and Ideas held at the Theatre
by the Lake. The Jazz Festival will be coming of age in style
with more than 100 jazz events packed into the four festival
days from 3rd - 6th May 2012. From 16th May 2012 - 20th May
2012 The
Keswick Mountain Festival with Dare 2b is an action packed,
five day festival celebrating the best the great outdoors has
to offer in the heart of the Lake District. The Olympic Torch
will be passing through Keswick on 21st June 2012. The Christian
convention is later in the year.
You can
organise canoeing
& kayaking on Derwentwater, go tandem
paragliding over the Borrowdale Valley, have
a go at climbing, cruise Derwentwater with Keswick
Launches, Go Ape at the Whinlatter
Forest Park or try their Altura Mountain Bike Trail, visit
the unique Rheged
exhibition, or Rookin
House Farm adventure venue, become a Lake District cowboy
for the day out pony trekking,
If the above sounds too
energetic why not just sit and enjoy the local
parks, with magnificent Lakeland scenery or walk by the lake and unwind to
the sound of gently lapping water.
