The Coffee Lounge

Bingley. West Yorks. UK.

It was a foul day lashed with wind and rain. The cafés in Bingley were packed and steamed up to the point of Turkish hamam levels as can be seen on windows of the Coffee Lounge. The optimistic outdoor chairs were empty. Generally, it seems to me, that the more cafés that open the fuller they get!

I was trussed up in full waterproofs along with a number of hardy Yorkshire walkers I saw heading off into the wilds. Nobody looked like they wanted to be prised out of the cafe, especially the lady on crutches.