Like millions of others we often use TripAdvisor reviews as
a guide to places and accommodation we haven’t visited or used before. Yet we
find the reviews are only a guide and have to be used with some discretion.
For example, there is a strange TripAdvisor review against a cafe at the
National Stone Centre which is an interesting and unusual place just off the
High Peak Trail. We know it quite well. The cafe is just an out of the way cafe but the staff are friendly and work hard, it has a pleasant atmosphere and fine panoramic views over the hills around Wirksworth.
We were enjoying a quiet walk round, with our dog, and found the place fascinating.
However shouting from one male individual to another, both with Lurchers, drew our attention that rabbits were being chased and killed by these dogs within this area.
I feel as this is a place where families visit, that this sort of thing should not be happening. Leaving aside the the enjoyment that this individual was getting from killing these innocent creatures, the fact that a child could quite easily have witnessed this is appalling.
If this was not authorised hunting, why was it not stopped, there were staff in the cafe!
For this reason alone, I would not recommend visiting here to families, not will we be returning!
Presumably the cafe staff should have rushed out and confronted those chaps with their lurchers. It’s odd how much weight people give to their emotions and how willing they are to share them.
Very common but still odd.
4 comments:
Was rabbit on the menu?
Mmmm. Fresh.
"My partner and I spent a lovely day at the Stone Centre, mainly looking at the stones, of which they have a fine collection. Nicely laid out, too, with nice paths and some informative signage.
The trip was totally ruined, however, when it was time for lunch and we found nothing on the menu for our lurchers, Dash and Rip...
A nice trip advisor story:
Some while ago Mrs W42 was checking on a hotel in the village her family came from. She found a review from a US holidaymaker who had the same surname as her grandmother's parents and which mentioned staying there to visit the English village his ancestors had come from. Seems that a family member, who was lost generations back in the family tree, had actually emigrated to the USA and there is a whole distant branch of her family there.
Well, I thought it was rather nice anyhow.
Doonhamer - I didn't see it but surely rabbit pie from locally caught rabbits would tick lots of environmental boxes.
Sam - it would be fun to add a review like that. Could be part of a "lighten up" campaign.
Woodsy - it is a nice story - one of the advantages of the internet.
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