The horse fair in Appleby attracts up to 30,000 visitors, 10,000 of which are Gypsies and Travellers who use it as an annual get together and it is often billed as the largest Gypsy Fair in Europe. With scorching hot weather we decided to travel there by train instead of battling with queues of traffic and enjoyed some spectacular scenes of horses being washed in the river, many of which will later be bought/sold.
Escape to the Lake District 