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Tuning in and dropping out at Gilpin Hotel

2 November 2023

11:30 AM

2 November 2023

11:30 AM

It is 7.30am, and already seventy degrees in Bowness-On-Windemere. A rare, early summer heatwave. My friend Ebele and I lower ourselves into a sunken outdoor hot tub in groggy disbelief. We appear to have woken up in Utopia. Llamas and alpacas frolic yards away as we sip coffees in silence.

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