I remember "Open All Hours" from our caravan holidays at Fallbarrow Park in Bowness, back in the '90s. It was one of the few grocery stores in the lake district where you could find decent stuff at the same prices that you did at home. Shopping there for something for tea was a regular occurence for us. The only real alternative back then in Bowness was the Co-op (very little choice,) or a trip up to Windermere station to go to Booths (where the food for a single meal for two parents and four kids, would set you back about the same as half a week's grocery budget back home!)
Well done Lee, you’ve done the lakes proud, the local tourist board should pay you for your promotion. We have had some fantastic breaks exploring the lakes, you have brought back some fantastic memories. The weather never bothered us once we got kitted out in Rathbones in Keswick. It is extremely beautiful no matter what the weather is like or the season. Especially beautiful in the autumn.
Hi hun the place we stayed at was Lonsdale hotel in Bo'ness. It was a lovely little hotel to stay in and the staff were lovely. And there is car parking at the back of the hotel xx
Going to Bowness 15th September for our 26th anniversary for 3 days. Went last year on a rode trip, on a day/night stay. Fancied a mini break this time. Taking our time with a boatlake thrown in on day 2. Got two weeks Majorca 10th July. Hope your right about green light hopefuls. Great film love it.
Hiya Lee really enjoyed your UK videos. Love the old clips. Beautiful place. Napkin. Happy days. Lol. :D Beautiful views. Your ice cream looked nice. Enjoyable video as always. Thank you for sharing. Have a great Tuesday. Take care.
Excellent video. Like you Lee have spent many happy times in the Lake District as lived near Lancaster until my early twenties. We’re due a break in Newby Bridge later this year and will definitely go to Bowness, just hope we have the weather you did. Lucky devil .
Superb vlog Lee, I'm loving the series from the UK 🇬🇧, I'll have to get back to the lake district soon, loved the open all hours bit, you nutter 😂 just as funny back then, thanks again mate 👍 👍 👍
There used to be a camera shop at the Crag Brow end of Ash Street, run by a very non-tourism-aware proprieter. Back in the '90s we popped in there to get a film for my daughter's APS camera, to be told he didn't stock anything of the sort: "I don't like APS," he said to us, "I just don't hold with it so I don't carry it!" A few years later I heard from a friend that they'd had a similar experience while attempting to buy a memory card. He apparently felt the same way about digital photography too. The shop isn't there anymore - perhaps the lesson to be learned is that he should have moved with the times, regardless of his own personal preferences.
Don't walk straight across a roundabout Lee 🤣 Thanks for all the Lake District vlogs been great. I got sunburnt in Sidmouth yesterday oops. Have good time in London with Darren!! Xx
Hi Lee, what a great series of vlogs on the Lake District. Lots of blue skies so you’ve shown off the Lakes at their best. Tenerife wasn’t an option for me this year so I booked the Lakes instead, I’ll be there in a few weeks! Keep up the excellent work!
And when we got there it was a sunny week for me and the family in the Lakes as well. So missing Tenerife wasn’t so bad after all. We went e-biking at the place where you did your vlog near Keswick, that also was a great idea!
Class vlog super MAC we were at bowness all weekend couldn’t move on Sunday it was that busy and Monday it reached 23 degrees nearly as good as los cris it was☀️😎. Back for a week staying at white cross bay then hopefully🙏🏻🤞🏼Tenerife end of August Keep up the good work brother 👍🏼👍🏼
Lee I have watched the whole Lake District series tonight I think it has been one of the best I give it a 10 I’ve been not feeling so good so watching your videos has cheered me up 😊👍😀
It's so beautiful Lee. Will so miss these lovely vlogs but looking forward to seeing all your new ventures. Sending lots of love and good wishes for the next chapter. 🥰🌞🥰Xxx
My mum and dad me and my partner are going here in November staying at Virginia cottage never been so will be a nice experience but before that have two Whitby trips booked the first one coming July.
The way that couple look at you talking to your fish and chips so funny 🤣🤣they probably thought you was let out for the day Lee 🤣 🤣🤣it beautiful there as that shop said on the sign love the lakes ❤🏞 love them little shops and restaurants there. and the view is stunning 😍 love the old video of you outside the shop a star in the making there 🤣📽🎞⭐Hope you enjoy that lce cream Lee 🍦🤣😊x
Hi. Don't know this area, it looks beautiful & so interesting.. I could look at this view for hours...What a surprise seeing you when you was younger! Still the same Lee your sense of humour 🤗
For me a good chip shop peels and chops its own spuds, you can always tell the ones that get frozen ones delivered. great vlog Lee, shame about them chips.
Mentioning making own chips takes me back to a holiday as a teenager where my room overlooked the back yard of a Greek or Italian cafe. Early every morning Grandma all in black would sit with a sack of potatoes and turn them into chips, much shouting and grandma would get a drink and food. We would then go to breakfast.
I agree with you about chain type cafes n restaurants in beautiful tourist places. They actually have macdonalds by the water front in Florence and Venice and in a main square in Rome. No no no. Ha. Can't beat local chippies and local wine So lucky with the weather lee but whole of summer looks good.
👌👌👌👍......Best of this little mantage for me...We like to go at least once per year for three or four nights. Always stay at Laurel cottage..Great digs👍
F me mate u look like a long haired Rodney trotter haha amazing video as always encouraging the uk and abroad to visit the amazing uk to holiday when the Suns out we truly can’t be beaten EVER
Hi hun we stayed there for are Anniversary one year. Love that place as you say lots of lovely shops and pubs there mind that the seagulls doesn't get them lol xx
@@lynnerowlands5052 We always used to take our kids for lunch in The Ship Inn, at least a couple of times while we were on holiday in Bowness. The attraction for us was that 'The Kids Menu' wasn't restricted to the usual burger, sausage, fish finger or pizza with chips and beans, that you found at most pubs. You could actually get kid size portions of all the regular menu items, even Sunday Lunch. It was always really good value for the kids too, because the 'child size portions' were just regular portions with fewer potatoes and smaller portions of veggies, (which my kids, like most kids, were always fine with,)
I’ve really enjoyed the Lake District vlogs Lee. Yes I love my hot, sunny foreign hols, but equally I love places like the Lakes and south Pembrokeshire just as much.... but in a different way 😁
Great video yet again! One of my favourite places in the lakes, haven’t been for a couple years. Hopefully I’ll be able go back soon. Are you going anywhere else in the uk?
Living in Lancaster Bowness is just a short ride by bus or train for those of us who don't drive. Always use Seafarers chippy, Vinegar Jones are more expensive being on the main drag, plus Seafarers cook their fish to order. Looks like it was evening when you visited, we usually head home around 7 or 8-ish though in 2016 we spent the whole evening there at a concert to raise money for the victims of the 2015 Cumbria floods, Status Quo were the headline act and it was a fantastic atmosphere.
Hi Lee, your so close to my mate Nigel, sub postmaster Windermere Post Office. We been to Bowness many times, they're used to be a lovely carvery to eat at a pub next to the Lake. Shame it closed 😕
Very nice part of the country . Ive hauled a few loads of logs out of the lakes area . Very narrow roads in places off the main roads . Infact thers a local lad who i think has a narrower truck to help with the narrow roads . A lot of those cafes are very expensive deffo catering to the tourist trade . Not all the local trade . Still very nice places around this area . Just saw a shop called the neon sheep . Didnt realise that fallout from chernoble had reached that far haha . .
Looks wonderful especially when the sun is shining, where are you going next have you considered snowdonia? love that part of the world , Llanberis is fab and then a venture to Anglesey etc.
What a lovely wee place! Edinburgh has a lot of side streets with unique shops and pubs! Thoroughly enjoyed this series, but I’m looking forward to your new Tenerife series soon! Have you booked your flights?
That place looks amazing. In your mind you are still that young man and then you look in the mirror! Know the feeling. Was that your mum laughing in the background? Incidentally just realised Rate my Takeaway is on the One Show on BBC.
Why on earth would a Fish and Chip shop be closed on a Bank Holiday weekend in the Lake District? Business suicide! By the way a certain You Tube channel's admin deletes any messages containing your name or the Craic Masters. Childish and shallow me thinks!
Beautiful place windermere went there for a day had lovely boat ride and steam train ride
I remember "Open All Hours" from our caravan holidays at Fallbarrow Park in Bowness, back in the '90s. It was one of the few grocery stores in the lake district where you could find decent stuff at the same prices that you did at home. Shopping there for something for tea was a regular occurence for us. The only real alternative back then in Bowness was the Co-op (very little choice,) or a trip up to Windermere station to go to Booths (where the food for a single meal for two parents and four kids, would set you back about the same as half a week's grocery budget back home!)
Well done Lee, you’ve done the lakes proud, the local tourist board should pay you for your promotion. We have had some fantastic breaks exploring the lakes, you have brought back some fantastic memories. The weather never bothered us once we got kitted out in Rathbones in Keswick. It is extremely beautiful no matter what the weather is like or the season. Especially beautiful in the autumn.
Thanks Roger. Love the Lakes. ❤️
Only just noticed this one, no idea how I missed it. Crispy bits are lovely, never get them down here so don't knock it 🤣
Hi hun the place we stayed at was Lonsdale hotel in Bo'ness. It was a lovely little hotel to stay in and the staff were lovely. And there is car parking at the back of the hotel xx
Yes so the next time you go try that place out lovely full English breakfast orange juice tea and toast. You will love it there xxx
Going to Bowness 15th September for our 26th anniversary for 3 days. Went last year on a rode trip, on a day/night stay. Fancied a mini break this time. Taking our time with a boatlake thrown in on day 2.
Got two weeks Majorca 10th July. Hope your right about green light hopefuls.
Great film love it.
Hiya Lee really enjoyed your UK videos. Love the old clips. Beautiful place.
Napkin. Happy days. Lol. :D Beautiful views. Your ice cream looked nice.
Enjoyable video as always. Thank you for sharing. Have a great Tuesday. Take care.
Great vlog's showcasing the lakes..👏👏👏
Excellent video. Like you Lee have spent many happy times in the Lake District as lived near Lancaster until my early twenties. We’re due a break in Newby Bridge later this year and will definitely go to Bowness, just hope we have the weather you did. Lucky devil .
Lived in Newby Bridge. Go to the Swan for a drink also go on The Lakeside to Haverthwaite Railway. 👍🏼👍🏼
Hi Lee. We’re booked in at The Swan in September for our break. Been before and looking forward to it, then Tenerife in October, hopefully!
you are so lucky growing up in the lake district I love it. Hawkshead is one of my favourite areas but love it all. love to drive round the lakes.
Superb vlog Lee, I'm loving the series from the UK 🇬🇧, I'll have to get back to the lake district soon, loved the open all hours bit, you nutter 😂 just as funny back then, thanks again mate 👍 👍 👍
Thank you. Always been a bit mad. 😜
There used to be a camera shop at the Crag Brow end of Ash Street, run by a very non-tourism-aware proprieter. Back in the '90s we popped in there to get a film for my daughter's APS camera, to be told he didn't stock anything of the sort: "I don't like APS," he said to us, "I just don't hold with it so I don't carry it!"
A few years later I heard from a friend that they'd had a similar experience while attempting to buy a memory card. He apparently felt the same way about digital photography too.
The shop isn't there anymore - perhaps the lesson to be learned is that he should have moved with the times, regardless of his own personal preferences.
Great vids of the Lake District Lee, I love going there and enjoy it very much. Love the old footage too, I'm guessing 1992/1993 lol
Don't walk straight across a roundabout Lee 🤣 Thanks for all the Lake District vlogs been great. I got sunburnt in Sidmouth yesterday oops. Have good time in London with Darren!! Xx
Thank you. 😎
Hun you have not changed at all. Omg still hamsome as ever lol xx
Hi Lee, what a great series of vlogs on the Lake District. Lots of blue skies so you’ve shown off the Lakes at their best. Tenerife wasn’t an option for me this year so I booked the Lakes instead, I’ll be there in a few weeks! Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you Steve.
And when we got there it was a sunny week for me and the family in the Lakes as well. So missing Tenerife wasn’t so bad after all. We went e-biking at the place where you did your vlog near Keswick, that also was a great idea!
Class vlog super MAC we were at bowness all weekend couldn’t move on Sunday it was that busy and Monday it reached 23 degrees nearly as good as los cris it was☀️😎.
Back for a week staying at white cross bay then hopefully🙏🏻🤞🏼Tenerife end of August
Keep up the good work brother 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you. 😎 👍🏼 See you there for a €1 pint
Lee I have watched the whole Lake District series tonight I think it has been one of the best I give it a 10 I’ve been not feeling so good so watching your videos has cheered me up 😊👍😀
Hey thanks. I enjoyed filming the Lakes. Hope you feel better soon. 🕶️
@@TheMacMaster thanks Lee I hope I see you up this way one day 😊
You haven't changed a bit lol. There is just something charming about old vintage footage
Lol. 😂
As always your content is top quality. I've really enjoyed your visit to the Lake District. Cheers. 🍻👍🏻
It's so beautiful Lee. Will so miss these lovely vlogs but looking forward to seeing all your new ventures. Sending lots of love and good wishes for the next chapter. 🥰🌞🥰Xxx
Been to vinegar jones it was fantastic
Brilliant place to visit, another very interesting vlog Lee x
Great series Lee. As good as alwaysThank you. Hope to see you back in Tenerife soon. You haven't changed a bit by the way
Lol. 😂 I know. Just the same.
Apart from having your curtains cut off. 🤣🤣🤣
What a beautiful place to visit amazing 👍🏻
Thanks for the vid. Not been there for many years, Going next weekend but unfortunately the weather forecast isnt good. You pucked a great day.
My mum and dad me and my partner are going here in November staying at Virginia cottage never been so will be a nice experience but before that have two Whitby trips booked the first one coming July.
Lovely vlogs of the Lake District 👍
One of your best there 👍 I want to see more of your old films haha its well funny 😂. Can't wait for all of your next vlogs. Keep up the good work 👍
Great vlog lee. I was in bowness last Wednesday I just missed you. I came home from the lake district on Friday.
Had lovely weather. Was lucky. 😊👍🏼
@@TheMacMaster I hope I see you one day
You too Patrick 👍🏼
Amazing series lee , love the Lake District 😁going to stay in Keswick for 2 nights in July, may try the sizzling stone for a steak 🥩 x
Thank you. Definitely have a steak at The Sizzling Stone. 👍🏼👍🏼
You've been so lucky with the weather!Lovely looking place , thought it was Rodney from fools and horses at first!!😂 Great old footage 👍🏼
Lol. Been told that before. 😜
Good video lee like the lake District wonderful place to visit ...
The way that couple look at you talking to your fish and chips so funny 🤣🤣they probably thought you was let out for the day Lee 🤣 🤣🤣it beautiful there as that shop said on the sign love the lakes ❤🏞 love them little shops and restaurants there. and the view is stunning 😍 love the old video of you outside the shop a star in the making there 🤣📽🎞⭐Hope you enjoy that lce cream Lee 🍦🤣😊x
Oh the ice cream was amazing. 😁 I was let put for the day. 😂
@@TheMacMaster 😂😂🙌 you was lucky with the weather Lee it was beautiful 🏞☀️🍦☀️👍
Hi. Don't know this area, it looks beautiful & so interesting.. I could look at this view for hours...What a surprise seeing you when you was younger! Still the same Lee your sense of humour 🤗
Lol. Crazy back then as well. 😂😜
Young Lee, I thought that was Rodney Trotter 😆
Lol. 😂
For me a good chip shop peels and chops its own spuds, you can always tell the ones that get frozen ones delivered. great vlog Lee, shame about them chips.
Totally agree. 👍🏼 Got to peel and chip their own chips.
Mentioning making own chips takes me back to a holiday as a teenager where my room overlooked the back yard of a Greek or Italian cafe. Early every morning Grandma all in black would sit with a sack of potatoes and turn them into chips, much shouting and grandma would get a drink and food. We would then go to breakfast.
So love the lake district lucky enough to live in morecambe Bay 30 mins away so visit a lot
I used to travel the other way. From The Lakes to Morecambe. Loved the fair in the middle past Woolworths.
Doing collaborations with yourself now Lee? 🤣 Loved it.
I have enjoyed your this series on the lake district so thanks and I really agree with your values too so cheers lee
Hi lee
Looks absolutely beautiful there.
When are you going back to Tenerife
Thank you. Back to Tenerife end of June
looks a lovely place I have stayed in Lake District but for some reason never here, nice to see the old footage looks like parking hasnt changed lol.
😄 your ronnie barker was almost as good as your Brian clough lee. Great vlog.
I agree with you about chain type cafes n restaurants in beautiful tourist places. They actually have macdonalds by the water front in Florence and Venice and in a main square in Rome. No no no. Ha. Can't beat local chippies and local wine So lucky with the weather lee but whole of summer looks good.
I went to Beatrix potter world back in 2016 was good
👌👌👌👍......Best of this little mantage for me...We like to go at least once per year for three or four nights. Always stay at Laurel cottage..Great digs👍
F me mate u look like a long haired Rodney trotter haha amazing video as always encouraging the uk and abroad to visit the amazing uk to holiday when the Suns out we truly can’t be beaten EVER
Lol. My mate calls me a Plonker. 😂
Well Lee, you've aged like a fine wine. LOL. That old film🤣🤣 I reckon you look like Jimmy Nail in it!! Much more handsome now let me tell ya!
Lol. Thank you. 😎
Hi hun we stayed there for are Anniversary one year. Love that place as you say lots of lovely shops and pubs there mind that the seagulls doesn't get them lol xx
Love it x
@@TheMacMaster we went the ship in for are dinner and that meal was lovely that we had xxx
@@lynnerowlands5052 We always used to take our kids for lunch in The Ship Inn, at least a couple of times while we were on holiday in Bowness. The attraction for us was that 'The Kids Menu' wasn't restricted to the usual burger, sausage, fish finger or pizza with chips and beans, that you found at most pubs. You could actually get kid size portions of all the regular menu items, even Sunday Lunch. It was always really good value for the kids too, because the 'child size portions' were just regular portions with fewer potatoes and smaller portions of veggies, (which my kids, like most kids, were always fine with,)
Another great blog lee .And fish n chips looks lush
Beautiful place. Fish and chips looked good. Could just eat some now. Must visit this summer, not too far from Durham. X
Been to bowness lots of times and its always very busy
Did you have your pint in the hole in the wall pub ? Don't know what you missed !!!
Oooh. I'll have to try that.
I love a nice walk around bowness
If I didn't know where you we're,I would think you we're in Holland or something like that.That old footage though 🤣🤣🤣👍xx
Lol. 😂
You’ve certainly got the weather for your last in the series! Looking forward to seeing you back in Tenerife at the end of June 🤞
I’ve really enjoyed the Lake District vlogs Lee. Yes I love my hot, sunny foreign hols, but equally I love places like the Lakes and south Pembrokeshire just as much.... but in a different way 😁
Thank you. I enjoyed making them. 😊
Omg u at the end so funny 😂
Lol. 😂 shhh don't tell. 😂
This is all my old stumping grown! This is where I grew up! Lol
Lol. 😂 went past Troutbeck too.
@@TheMacMaster awe man I wish I could of come with you! :( Could've should you some serious views and places! One day tho! :)
Made me want to go
Great video yet again! One of my favourite places in the lakes, haven’t been for a couple years. Hopefully I’ll be able go back soon. Are you going anywhere else in the uk?
Blackpool London again and Wales and Brighton. 👍🏼
My parents live in Bowness and I love having a night on the beer there with my dad
Beautiful part of the country went there some year's ago for new year,good job you got a napkin or you would of at to say Granville fetch ya cloth 👍
Could of been a stand in for Duran Duran haha with that hair
Lol. 😂
My god fab vlog and I agree you did look like Rodders lol. Proper lol 😆
Living in Lancaster Bowness is just a short ride by bus or train for those of us who don't drive. Always use Seafarers chippy, Vinegar Jones are more expensive being on the main drag, plus Seafarers cook their fish to order. Looks like it was evening when you visited, we usually head home around 7 or 8-ish though in 2016 we spent the whole evening there at a concert to raise money for the victims of the 2015 Cumbria floods, Status Quo were the headline act and it was a fantastic atmosphere.
Can't wait to hear welcome to Tenerife!!! As always super great vlog. And who was that guy with all that hair????
Lol. 😂
Hi Lee, your so close to my mate Nigel, sub postmaster Windermere Post Office.
We been to Bowness many times, they're used to be a lovely carvery to eat at a pub next to the Lake. Shame it closed 😕
Hy Lee, thought that was Rodney Trotter in that vlog 😁 😁 😁 x
Lol. 😂 used to get that all the time.
Very nice part of the country . Ive hauled a few loads of logs out of the lakes area . Very narrow roads in places off the main roads . Infact thers a local lad who i think has a narrower truck to help with the narrow roads . A lot of those cafes are very expensive deffo catering to the tourist trade . Not all the local trade . Still very nice places around this area . Just saw a shop called the neon sheep . Didnt realise that fallout from chernoble had reached that far haha . .
Amazing views Lee thanks for sharing 👍😁
Good blog Lee. Hope all good my friend
Not been to Bowness. On the bucket list now!
It's a lovely place. 👍🏼👍🏼
Looks wonderful especially when the sun is shining, where are you going next have you considered snowdonia? love that part of the world , Llanberis is fab and then a venture to Anglesey etc.
Yes lee loved the video what's the best and cheapest fish and chips you've had and the worst and most expensive fish and chips
Oooh. Good question. Palms one of the best. 👍🏼
@@TheMacMaster was that the cheapest and what was one of the worst fish and chips you had and was the most expensive
What a lovely wee place! Edinburgh has a lot of side streets with unique shops and pubs! Thoroughly enjoyed this series, but I’m looking forward to your new Tenerife series soon! Have you booked your flights?
Not yet. Going end of June. 😊👍🏼👍🏼🍺🍺
@@TheMacMaster So exciting 🤩! I’ll be over end of August - I think it will happen now! 🤞🏻
Hi lee ,love your blog on the lakes,i'm going this friday 4th june for the wk end
Debbie
You'll love it. Have an amazing time. 😊
Which year where you in Bowness on the footage you showed us?
I think early 90s. 😂
The whole of Tenerife must be rejoicing,The Mac is on his way back!
Lol. 😂 👍🏼 Let's Go!
Who was the lady laughing outside the shop Lee
My sister. 😊
Janet my Sister.
love bowness but has gone really pricey to stay over. good vlog though mate
Nice to have you back in our beautiful Lake District, now it’s time to get back to Tenerife Lee.
Batter Curls (with icing sugar) is a thing.
That place looks amazing. In your mind you are still that young man and then you look in the mirror! Know the feeling. Was that your mum laughing in the background? Incidentally just realised Rate my Takeaway is on the One Show on BBC.
I'll have to watch that. 😊
Hi Lee, will your next series be abroad?
Got a Blackpool one Tomorrow then London again. Then Tenerife.
@@TheMacMaster When are u back In Tenerife?
“served every day”...... “not today”
Can't wait for you to get back out to tenerife
You haven't changed much from your youth still a nutta now 🤣😂👍
Lol. 😂 Definately 👍🏼
Come on Young Arkwright Davey fetch your cloth lol
Lol. 😂
Yippee morecambe gone and done it
So love the lakes beautiful place x,
😂😂😂😂 You had 2
1 euro pint in tenerife lets go !
That steak you had food wise must of been the highlight of you stay apart from the views it was making me hungry
It was amazing
Why on earth would a Fish and Chip shop be closed on a Bank Holiday weekend in the Lake District? Business suicide! By the way a certain You Tube channel's admin deletes any messages containing your name or the Craic Masters. Childish and shallow me thinks!
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