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On a recent trip to England’s Lake District, filled with Wordsworthian fantasies about wandering lonely as a cloud, I was horrified to find the celebrated villages clogged with outsized tour buses and hundreds of visitors posing for selfies. The most recent Lonely Planet guide to England estimates that some 14 million pour into the region […]