As someone who has recently been in Cumbria on a coach holiday (based at the Shap Wells Hotel) it was good to get a great holiday under the proverbial belt.

It was the fourth or fifth time that I have stayed in Cumbria and I was ready to have come on this timely break.

I was extremely fortunate with the weather in the second week of June – on all days, except for a very heavy shower last Thursday.

Even so, the weather was brilliant, and so were the trips to Windermere, Kendal and Grasmere and boat and steamship trips on Lake Windermere and Ullswater.

I ended up enjoying the break away. I came up to Cumbria because I wasn’t too sure of what the Scottish Parliament was going to do about restrictions.

I was therefore much better off in remaining inside England for this first holiday in two years. Will I be back? Maybe!

Cumbria, thanks for the holiday. It was needed.

Stephen Farthing

Bristol