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| At Thorney How: ready for those hills |
There are so many dreadful ways of spending the May Bank Holiday in this tourist mecca village in the Lake District: trying to get a car park within 4 km of the town; standing in a long long line at the Famous Gingerbread Shop; standing in another line to visit Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage only to find that it is being renovated within an inch of its life in time for the 2020 bicentary and all you can see are container offices, scaffolding and hoardings; being charged $8 for a dreadful English coffee....
