"We went to Whitby today. Walked along the cobbled streets and climbed the 199 steps to St Mary's Church, next to the ruins of the Abbey.
We battled the wind across the cliff top graveyard and sought* sanctuary in the church. And there, on the door, was a sheet of laminated A4 paper with this message.
"Please do not ask staff for directions to Dracula's grave. He is not buried here."
How many people must have asked where a fictional character was buried in order to provoke someone to print off that sign, laminate it and pin it up on the door?
It just made me sad that functioning adults, who must have had some knowledge of the book (or film, I suppose) assume that the body of a vampire is buried overlooking the North Sea.
Do these folk wander round furniture shops, opening wardrobe doors at random, in the hope of finding the portal to Narnia?"*
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