After the fine weather of the last few weeks Sunday was cool, overcast and breezy at our cottages near Bakewell (see here).  The last few years we have seen the Red Arrows in glorious sunshine at Chatsworth so this year we decided to try a different viewing point especially as the performance was at lunchtime rather than in the afternoon.   We had opted for Baslow Edge some time ago and without the dogs after the barking everyone had to endure last year.  We set off just before midday  having planned our route but just as we left Bakewell on the Baslow road we found ourselves in queuing traffic for the show and at this point it was still two miles to Chatsworth for those who were going there. We turned round and picked up the Calver road only to find traffic queuing from Hassop roundabout to get to Chatsworth but having cut across this we got to Calver crossroads without any problems. We turned onto the Baslow road and hit the queues for Chatsworth at Calver Mill but luckily this is where we turned off and headed up past the car park for Curbar Edge and on to find a parking spot by the Sheffield Road.   Here we picked up the path to Baslow Edge but by now we also realised we were not the only ones to have this idea.  Well we weren’t expecting to be alone but we weren’t expecting masses of people.  We found our spot with half an hour to go which gave us time for lunch in a spot out of the wind as other families and people also bagged their places and had lunch.  The heather was still in a good condition up here too.  We were able to see them make their approach from miles away and we were treated to a wonderful display.  Being higher up there were a couple of times when the planes were practically over head and being higher up we could also see the number of cars at Chatsworth. Too soon the show was over and we headed back to the car passing the Longhorn cattle. We had a clear run home and spent the afternoon on house jobs and a number of bookings. One of our guests said it took them an hour to get to Chatsworth from here (normally fifteen minutes at most). In the evening we had another lovely sunset but I’ll save those photos for another day, you can enjoy some of the photos I took of the Red Arrows here, although for a change I did also make sure I enjoyed most of the display.  Hope the Longhorn Cattle did too!