On Contiki's UK tours there is a stop in the English Lake District. During this stop they offer some activities - kayaking and doing rope courses. Normally I might be interested in doing something like this, but since my leg was still a little sore from surgery over the summer I didn't think I would be able to do this. It rained anyway so I was better off. Instead our driver drove us into the town of Kesik, where we visited the Pencil Museum. My bus buddy, Stephanie, mentioned this when she saw it in her Rick Steves book and it became a bit of a joke so we had to go. I'm not going to tell you that this was the best museum I have ever been to, it was not. But we had fun there as a group. We saw a video on pencils, and saw the worlds largest pencil! What more could you want? It was actually a pretty good museum for something that had become a joke to us. We were even given free pencils with our tour. My only complaint? The museum shop was expensive, it offered a lot of fancy pencil sets. I wanted a little something for my nephews, they ended up with pencil sharpeners...
Worth mentioning is that the people who did do the kayaking and rope courses did have a good time, even in the rain.
