Next stop - Grasmere

We reboarded the bus and drove a short way further North where we got out for lunch break. This was the town of Grasmere which featured a number of souvenir shops, cafes, lots of shade trees and the church graveyard where Wordsworth is buried. James told us that the Grasmere gingerbread store has the best gingerbread in the world and is a "must see". That's where we headed to right after a very quick lunch of sandwiches and Cokes.

Day Six (From Wales to the Lake District to Carlisle)

July 18th 2006
One of the few drawbacks of travelling through an English-speaking country is that the TV news is in English. So first thing in the morning I learned that England was in the midst of an all-time heat wave. Temperatures this coming afternoon were expected to be in the mid 90's. And now we were headed deeper into the world that had no clue what "air conditioning" meant. The Welsh don't seem to ... read more

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