The early morning sun is bursting around the dark corners of High Dodd and Sleet Fell, sending a flush of light across the golden bracken and on to the hammered silver of the lake.
The Lake District was the inspiration for William Wordsworth, John Ruskin and Beatrix Potter, but its big skies, gentle waters, lofty fells and landscapes were surely designed to seduce modern-day, digitally ambushed families. In fact, escaping to the countryside and one of the best family-friendly hotels in the Lake District might just feel as other worldly as diving into a classic novel.