A Lady in London

The Lake District is best known for hiking. Trails wind up mountains, though sheep-filled pastures, and along mirrored lakes. Every village in Cumbria from bustling Keswick to tiny Grasmere has at least one outdoor goods shop that caters to the mountaineers that flood the Lake District every summer.

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When the TransPennine Express pulls into Windermere train station the first thing the uninitiated notice is that, despite being in the Lake District, there is no lake. A mile up the hill from the lake of the same name, Windermere is a hill town if the Lake District has one.

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