Honister Slate Mine

The forecast was of more rain so I didn't join the group planning to walk up at Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England at 978 metres. Only four of them went up, the rest completing a lower-level walk.
I drove with Elizabeth to the Honister Slate Mine, the only working slate mine in England, at the top of the Honister Pass which has inclines up and down of 25%. We enjoyed a very informative tour of the mine workings, and I bought my only souvenir of the holiday, a lying-down sheep made of green slate. It would remind me of the slate, which lined many paths, the sheep, and the fact that they lie down in the rain.
It was still drizzling in the afternoon so I stayed in the hotel reading the papers and starting a Charles Cummings spy thriller.
I went out for a walk for an hour to the nearby hamlet of Seathwaite and back.Read more