Small world

Left Hampton this morning and after picking Emily up from Kew Gardens we turned north-westwards for home. We'd planned to spend the night in the Lakes at the Helvellyn youth hostel.

We stopped to eat at Forton services on the M6, always identifiable by this concrete mushroom. To our surprise - and theirs too - we bumped into friends from Kilmelford! What sort of coincidence is that!

We arrived at the hostel much later than planned to find that it was about 2km from the road up a steep and extremely rocky track! It turned out to be on the site of a lead mine!