It's a brave man that drives an open sided (open topped) truck in the UK but you've got to be especially keen to do it in Cumbria. It's a beautiful part of the country but it's not well known for it's weather, or at least not good weather. We used to go to Grasmere every August bank holiday when I was a kid and invariably you couldn't see the tops of the fells for cloud and were walking in ankle deep mud, and that's when the rain wasn't coming in horizontally. It is a fantastic area though, in any weather. I can remember watching storms blow in across Windermere and hiking up Great Gable and Scafell Pike in driving rain.

Great photos.