After visiting Newark-on-Trent to attend the Stonedead Festival, my first travelling companion (throughout Somerset; south-east Wales; Gloucestershire etc.) returned to Ireland as planned, albeit with badly blistered feet.
To make matters worse, he had something like a 15-hour delay at Birmingham Airport.
In contrast, my second travelling companion and I travelled relatively straightforwardly from Newark to Nottingham, then Nottingham to Manchester by train.
After stopping over in our hometown (Bury, Lancashire), we made our way to Bolton train station:
From where we travelled up to Oxenholme (the gateway to the Lake District), and then Windemere (the kind of door to the Lake District):
After having a quick look round near Windermere train station:
We saw that the place was jam-packed with tourists, and caught the first bus out of the place, to Keswick:
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