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To: maceng2 who wrote (63774)	5/12/2005 4:43:31 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The topography is friendly, all those inviting hills and valleys ... the weather not so much, hills do catch the clouds ... the people have seen a lot of tourists already, you can sort of see that in their gaze, they're friendly enough but relate quite differently to each other ... same is true in any tourist area, of course One takeaway lesson - it is not smart to wake up the publican at Boot in the middle of his afternoon break by pounding on his door, and then asking stupid questions, after you've unwisely made a sole attempt on Sca Fell, on foot and with full travelling pack that contains only two cans of beer as provisions, and maybe a piece of sausage ... he doesn't like it, you see, and will be prone to question your ancestry, among other things ... but if you can fake a canadian accent and recite Kipling's 'Tommy' at the Sun pub in Coniston while there are current and/or former tommies present, you will drink for free all night, in fact they will not let you leave, and in the morning you can just forget about climbing any hills that day There was a whole new flavour in the air in Northumbria then, this was 1991 or 92 ... many small scale industries starting up, people zipping around being productive, and being aware that this was a new thing in the area, and a good thing ... there was a tiny bit of something similar in Whitehaven, but the rest of coastal Cumbria just seemed lost, Maryport particularly so, a really sick saddening decay .... once you're into the hills though, that's tourist country, they had a resource to keep themselves busy