Ulverston is primarily a market town, a place where real people live and work. It is not primarily geared for tourists, unless perhaps you want to take in the Laurel and Hardy Museum (which we did not). By the way, the reason why it is found there is that Stan Laurel was from Ulverston. Our B and B, the Virginia House Hotel, had by far the best breakfast spread of any place we stayed.
So what we mostly did was much needed laundry at the local laundramat and shopped for our lunch supplies for the next few days walking - and drew more cash out of the local banks!
But the best thing of all was this night was the final night of the Proms season in England. The Proms is somewhat akin to the idea of the Boston Pops. It is a summer season of classical and popular music that is made accessible to people during the off season of the symphony. The final night is live-streamed to several large outdoor venues throughout the UK, while the main concert is in a hall in London. It is a bit of a spectacle and very, very fun. Well, it turns out that in honor of this final night, the Ulverston Town Brass Band was giving a concert! We decided to go, expecting, well, the worst. And it was absolutely fantastic! The mixed-age band was led by a very young and charming conductor and played great music to an audience of people mostly older than us. We totally enjoyed it, and then went back to our rooms and watched the rest of the London concert on TV. "Jerusalem," "Rule, Brittania," and "Pomp and Circumstance" and "God Save the Queen" can make you really wish you were British.
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