Monday, March 25, 2013

Weather Tragedy: "Guests stranded at Tan Hill pub - four days and counting"

Oh the humanity.
Thanks to a reader, from the Northern Echo:
GUESTS at Britain's highest pub in Britain have been stranded for four days and counting. (As of Sunday, March 24)

Some visitors to the Tan Hill Inn, near Reeth, North Yorkshire, have been snowed in since Wednesday (Wednesday, March 21) as huge snow drifts and icy conditions prevented them from leaving.
Tracy Daly, landlady of the 17th Century inn, which stands at an elevation of 1,732ft, said she, a worker and the four guests are passing the time playing board games, cooking, reading and going on the internet....MORE
 "It's not how my husband and I envisaged spending our weekend, but we quite like being marooned in a pub."