The village of Grasmere was our first stop upon arriving in the English Lake District (me being a Wordsworth scholar and all). Grasmere was precisely the picturesque, mountain-nestled, tourist-swarmed village I had imagined. The quiet of the hills greatly softened the buzz of the village:
Grasmere's famous gingerbread - a flat, dense and gooey bar, coated in fairy dust, with a strong ginger zing:
And everything Wordsworth:
Oswald church, Wordsworth's place of worship:
Wordsworth and his family are buried in the church cemetery:
We ended our tour of Grasmere at Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth museum:
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