Breakfast at Greta Hall, Keswick

Staying in the  home owned by Southey and Coleridge has to be a highlight.  We were given a lot of information, and reading material, by our host and Susan G played the piano during breakfast. In the early nineteenth century it was a house full of people and children and it still is a house full of people and children. Lots of musical instruments, ducks, dogs, and books. Poet Southey seem to have been a kind soul, looking after Sara Coleridge, his sister-in-law, here for around 26 years plus writing the early version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Coleridge seems to have fought with his wife at every opportunity.