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tony0001
tony0001

I'm going on holiday for one week.

Such is my popularity hereon, I feel the need to issue the following advice. (If I wasn't quite so popular such issuing might be taken for arrogance...)

I am going to Keswick, pronounced Kezik. For the same budget, we could have returned to Prague for a week - and if Mr Dawg had been there between 9 and 16 April we probably would. (Isn't that sweet? Yes - but it's true too.)

We just cannot be arsed flying these days. (Even for a one hour flight ye need to be at the airport three hours before.) Aside from Tallin, Montpellier and Krakow we've visited every Euroland city we wanted to visit. The next time we get on a plane will be to drink wine wae Mr Dawg in Tasland.

Food related? One of the joys of visiting the Lake District is that a supermarket called Booths exists.

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northamerican
northamerican

Sometimes, reading a post makes me want to know more about something mentioned in it.

I don't know the Lake District, and I'd never heard of Booths until tonight, but using Booths Lake District as a search term in Google came up with this page among others. My mouth is watering!

P.S. Enjoy your holiday!

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henningwessel
henningwessel

Anything famous in Kezik?

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northamerican
northamerican

Anything famous in Kezik?

This is a great place! Speaking about myself, I would use this paraphrase of a well known expression: You can lead a fool to knowledge, and sometimes he will think.

I know very little about the sceptred isle that is England, and thus didn't know until now that Keswick was the source of the world's first graphite pencils.

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usher73
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I looked at Google maps for Keswick. which then prompted me to ask: Anything famous in Cockermouth ?

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henningwessel
henningwessel

LOL!

Have a good trip OP and bring back some good food stories.

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bjd
bjd

If you had wanted to fly, Tony, you could have gone to Keswick in Canada. Probably no Booth's supermarket though. And you'd have to say Kez-wick.

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vinnyd
vinnyd

I think this place in New York says Kezzick. (NSFRWP -- Not safe for Royal Wedding phobics).

But Keswick Road here in Baltimore is Kez wick.

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fieldgate
fieldgate

Anything famous in Kezik?

I still have a pencil (the ordinary kind) with a sign: "Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick".
A place well worth visiting, if you're interested in history of manufacturing of pencils.

Enjoy your hols Tony.

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vinnyd
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Coleridge lived in Keswick for a while, while Wordsworth and his sister were living in Grasmere, walking distance as they measured it in those days.

Henry David Thoreau's father made pencils. So did Henry when he needed cash.

Any local dishes of interest in the Lake District?

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