I actually live on the west coast just outside the lake district. That kind of wall you love is called a dry stone wall and is built without cement. My grandad used to build them before his retirement. The winters in the lake district alternate between frost and rain which would destroy any cement used in building the walls. So they're built in a way that the wall structure holds itself together. And any weather damage can be easily repaired in the spring.
I e just stumbled across these type of RUclips posts, Americans reacting to different UK things, but need to say you both make me laugh with the interaction between the two of you. The seeming shyness of Debbie and her touch of eccentricity just bounces off Natasha and her unfiltered way of expressing herself. You both are definitely the most entertaining and I love how the both of you are obviously animal people.
I love malham cove there is a little town nearby that has a stream and a pub then you walk up to the cove and then abound that you can walk/ drive further to another part of the cove
The Lake District is actually quite a large area covering over 2000 square miles and containing around 20 major bodies of water and many smaller. Only one - Bassenthwaite - is officially called a lake, all the others are Waters, Meres, Tarns etc (they aren't lakes as their name is or contains a word which means water or body of water). It's a beautiful place, I've lived close to it for most of my life and have spent a lot of time there. The mint cake you mentioned is Kendal Mint Cake which is basically a confection of sugar and mint essence. It's an energy food and is used by mountineers, it was taken up Everest my Edmund Hillary as energency rations in case they ran out of food.
This may have been said already, but in the UK, National Parks are not pure wilderness areas in government ownership, but areas of landscape that are (mostly) privately owned and include towns and villages within them.
Great video 😊 There are 16 Lakes in the Lake District, 3 of them ( including Windermere) are available for fishing in. There is Pike , Trout , Roach , Perch , Salmon amongst others.
This is actually one of the better videos for the lake district as its not showing all the touristy bits. If you go fishing you will need to buy a license, (you can buy day ones). Fish wise perch, trout and salmon. I live about 1 hrs drive away from the lakes and once went to the stone circle early morning and there was a humming sound and you could feel the stones vibrating, very mystical.
But it also didn't show much. I wouldn't have wanted to come here on the strength of that video and I live in Windermere. ( the original, not Natasha and Debbie )
The humming sound you mentioned! I used to camp at castlerigg farm in my teens. A friend of mine was always going on about a very slight humming, and vibration in the ground. None of us ever heard or felt it. But he was adamant. He Googled it 3 decades later to prove himself right😂
While it shows the film maker's favourite places, it doesn't really do the whole LD justice, and IMHO doesn't serve as an intro for people who have been there.
Great video. It was fun seeing Debbie being silly at the start. The cake was Kendal mint cake. It's very tasty. I have been in the lake district a few times. The views are fab. There is boat trips on the lake, an aquarium as well. Lot's of great towns to visit as well. If you love Beatrice Potter there is some centres you can visit. Oh fish I am Scottish so I am only guessing that it's the same. People fish for trout , rainbow trout, mackerel ,cod, pike , salmon and other stuff.
Hope you all enjoyed this! After reading some of the comments we have a question. Here in the US you must have a fishing license for anywhere you fish. Is this the same there or only national parks? Let us know how you feel about Travel Wednesday's. Thanks for watching everyone ❤❤
You need a licence for Fresh Water only, Obviously, you can sea fish without one. You are never more than about 50 miles from the sea anywhere here, and rods, gear and boats can be hired everywhere.
The idea of national parks in the UK is different from other countries. Here, national parks contain towns and villages, and most of the land is privately owned. However, there are restrictions on what the land can be used for.
People from outside of the UK often fail to realise what a 'National Park' in Britain actually defines. The official definition for a UK National Park is: A general area that is relatively undeveloped, scenic, and attracts tourists, with some form of planning restrictions to ensure it maintains those characteristics. There may be substantial human settlements within the bounds of a national park. The main difference between UK and US national parks is that in the UK, people permanently occupy land within the park, for purposes other than for the maintenance and upkeep of the national park, and that indpendent businesses, farms and industry are all allowed in the national park, providing it doesn't conflict the definition of a national park.
The Lake District national park is 58km (36 miles) by 64km (40miles) and Windermere waters (it’s not officially a lake) is 10.5 miles long. You will find about 24,511 dwellings with about 40,478 people living within the boundaries of the National park. Within the park 16,510 archaeological sites and monuments are recorded in the Historic Environment Record, including 283 scheduled ancient monuments. As you will appreciate from these figures villages and farms are spread out within the National Park. One interesting fact is that Beatrix Potter actually used her own money to buy farms within the Lake District to stop them falling into the hands of developers, on her death she left 4,000 acres of land and countryside to the National Trust, as well as 14 farms. All these farms are still working farms managed by National Trust tenant farmers in accordance with her wishes and the National Trust continue her conservation work in the Lake District to keep it special for ever, for everyone.
Windermere IS officially a lake, though the word 'lake' doesn't form part of its name ('mere' in its name identifies it as a lake,) NOR is it EVER called "Windermere waters" - I think you're the only person ever to call it that. Perhaps you're making up your own rules!
I have spent my whole 67 years walking, climbing and crawling in the Lake District. There are quite a few videos on my channel dedicated to my walking there in all seasons. I love the place. My happy place. Striding Edge, Swirral Edge and Sharp Edge on Blencathra in the north of the district are all awesome routes.
Kendal Mint Cake is a forerunner of the energy bar, Victorian explorers and mountaineers carried them as emergency rations. Btw there's more than a dozen large bodies of water, only one is called a lake, the rest are either called meres or waters, e.g. Ullswater, or Windemere. There're lots of small towns in the Lake District. Fishing is not a big thing, I'm not even sure if it's allowed. Last time I was there was around 3 years ago, delivering 2 Teli-handler all terrain forklifts to a lakeside apartment development in Bowness. If those roads scared you in a car, you should try them in a 7 axle low-loader!!!!!!!
Love you two. Stumbled across you a week ago and have been bingeing since. You need another Lake District video to review that shows the Lakes and peaks, stunning I can assure you, we went in May.
All the town's mentioned are in the Lake District, Kendal mint cake is s sugary sweet or Candy as you may call it, and yes people do take their large boats to the lakes and it is as beautiful as you have seen, there are dozens of lakes small and large, yes you can go fishing in the lakes and rivers in the lake District, oh and the wall's you saw are all dry walls so no cement just stones large and small stacked up carefully usually by the farmers and worker's I hope that helps with some of your questions, so all the best to you from Yorkshire, England.
It isn't as simple as that: Some of the towns mentioned, specifically Kendal, are NOT in the Lake District, but just adjacent to it. Declaring "yes, you can go fishing in the lakes and rivers in the Lake District' is not correct, since many of the lakes have restrctions on fishing, requiring licences to fish there. Some of the smaller lakes and some tarns are actually privately owned, and don't allow fishing at all.
George R. R. Martin based a lot of Game of Thrones on the 'War of the Roses' which was fought between the Lancasters and Yorks, so in a way you were correct.
Nice bloke! :D Love your reactions! Visited the pencil museum 30+ years ago and still talk about it! So it must have been good!! ;) My favourite part of the reaction was your trauma at the (right) 'wrong' side of the road - lol! Yet another great reaction
The fish that people mainly go for in the lake district are Pike that go well over 30lbs and Trout that go to double figures there are also Perch over 3lb.
Always love seeing vids like this I live in Cumbria where the Lake District is, just about 10mins drive outside the park on the coast by the sea. Love going into the lakes to climb the mountains (we call them fells). People do live in the park lots of farms and small towns pretty expensive tho inside the boundary of the park to live! There's some great places to see especially as a local there's some less touristy sites that are fun to explore
I live near the Lake District and I’ve been going there regularly since I was a baby. My girlfriend isn’t from the UK, so this summer I took her to the Lakes for a week and showed her around a lot of those places. Her favourite things from the whole week was Grasmere gingerbread, castlerigg stone circle and South Lakes safari zoo. Many photos were taken.
I worked for a period as the hotel manager of a hotel in the LD, Striding Edge is actually quite dangerous, 13 people died on there in 2016 and 20 in 2017, if you are a novice I would recommend trying much easier walks as even experienced fell walkers get in to trouble.
Ive actually been a few times and never knew these places existed. Have mainly done the big tourist places windermere, the pike and Cockermouth.... yes you read that correctly always made me smile as a kid. 🤣 beautiful part of the country ❤
No mention of the Ravenglass - Eskdale light railway, a pleasure cruise on Lake Windermere, the poet William Wordsworth's house in Grassmere or the nearby Grassmere Gingerbread shop housed in a 17th century school which I'm sure Debbie would enjoy. There again, it was his top 10 not mine.
The thing I enjoyed the most on our visit to Windermere was going on a steam boat trip around the lake. It took us away from all the people and motor bikes 🏍. We also had fun looking at all the 🏍 and seeing if we could pair them with there owners. I know it sounds sad 😂😂
It's a lovely place and only about an hour or so from me in Liverpool. Its very busy in the summer. We went kayaking on Lake windermere on one of the hottest days of the year. The pubs ad restaurants are great and serve locally brewed beers and local produced food. You'll love it. Loads of lakes and villages in the Lake District.
If you like fishing and the British landscape I’d highly recommend Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - it’s two comedians and mates who have had health scares going around the country and talking about life - it’s very funny and beautifully shot, and really it’s about life, love and friendship and all that good stuff more than the fishing but I think you might enjoy it ☺️
Just to confuse you, Kendal Mint Cake is not cake !! It's a slab of minty stuck together sugar for hikers needing that extra instant energy. You'll see it sold all over the lake district. You only buy it once.
Starting from the second year of our marriage, my wife & I usually spent our summer vacation in The Lake District, which stopped when we'd had the first of our 4 children. We didn't return to the Lake District until our eldest was 9 and our youngest was 4. I knew I'd missed The Lake District in the intervening years, but I didn't realise how much I'd missed it. The feeling I got when we eventually returned there was overwhelming, and I can only describe the emotion I felt as the Lake District hills came into view, as such an intense relief that I felt as though I had been holding my breath for all of the intervening years, and only on return to The Lakes did I feel as though I could spiritually breathe again.
The Lake District National Park is quite large. The towns mentioned in the video straddle the area and can be considered part of the area but usually not the park itself. The park itself is deemed an area of outstanding natural beauty and cannot be built on. It is located in the North-West of England in United Kingdom which is the region of England I am from and live in.
Though there are certain restrictions within certain restricted areas, within the National Park, saying that the National Park 'cannot be built' on, is totally misinformed and incorrect rubbish.
There are towns and farms in the lake district I, Windermere is on the banks of lake windermere, you can go on boat trips on the lakes. This also a ferry
The towns are all in the park, for certain. I am from the area, I've seen the whole park, many times. It's lush and green and will blow your minds. It's a must if you love countryside with little splashes of villages here and there.
The fishing in the Lake District is very varied. It is probably most known for its large pike , found in the lakes as well as brown trout and char, there are also what we in Britain call coarse fish, roach , Rudd ,perch etc, the rivers including the river Kent mentioned have Atlantic Salmon and sea trout in them.
I have been numerous times as I use to live just over an hour away, it's gorgeous, as a kid my best friend had a holiday home overlooking Lake Windermere, and when I visited my father when my kids were younger we took them there as they grew up with Beatrix Potter
You’ll both be fine in the Lake District ….. my hiking hubby goes up the peaks while I get comfy at the bottom with my sewing 🤗 it’s not all about the climbing…go to Keswick for the shopping and the cafes 👍
Hi! When in UK and you think Town but you get to the countryside - think village especially around Lake District in the north and the Cotswolds in the south, old England.
You need to find a video with regards to a Malcolm and Donald Campbell. They were record breakers in land and water speed. Donald Campbell died during a record attempt on Coniston water in the Lake District in 1967 ish.
Excellent video, good information and some beautiful scenery and well presented. I have only once stayed in the Lake District, we had B&B in Bowness for a weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Fishing is limited there, but around the country there are thousands of fisheries where you are almost guaranteed to catch, you will need a licence though. I only fish in the warmer weather these days as sitting on the bank for hours freezing my nuts off is less appealing the older you get.
Most rivers, canels and lakes in the UK as a whole are clean enough for fishing; although best to avoid river esturies near cities. You will need a licence though. And yes, depending which town you are in you can also charter a boat for fishing - although most will be coastal.
Those stone walls which look so beautiful are called dry stone walls and many were built 100s of years ago it is a skilled job to build and repair them as the stones are selected to fit tightly together and no cement is used at all.
I stayed in bowness 3o years ago ,hired a boat most days on windermere,a long walk to Ambleside one day ,Keswick etc nice ,everywhere nice and we were lucky nice weather everyday ,well worth a visit
The whole Lake District area is more than just the National Park, so yes the towns around the Park are part of the Lake District area. However, there are several small villages within the Park as well.
Its also the place in the UK with highest rainfall. Its very beautiful though. My wife doesn`t walk but she enjoyed the towns and villages. There are amazing boat trips, I loved the ones on Windermere. Malham cove isn`t in the Lake District but its not too far by car to get there. We also went to Hadrians Wall ( A famous Roman structure running across the north of England from East to west coast ) when we were staying in the area, I think it was about 40 mins away by car.
For your Cotswolds trek - check out Bourton-On-The-Water... 😉 A very beautiful village with a river running through it only deep enough to paddle in - it's like the seaside but surrounded by hills... 👍
I'm sure someone has already explained the walls. They are call "dry stone wall" and it is a dying art in knowing how to build them. No cement of any type is used. They are just stones stacked to form a wall. Usually, the builder does not break any stone to make the wall - it is all done by visualizing how each stone fits.
I loved your reaction to the road conditions and you need to realise that some of what you saw was on relatively broad roads, in some cases the roads are literally single track roads with passing places spaced along the length. If you are driving on such a road, you need to be aware that you might have to reverse to the nearest passing place. Unfortunately some people refuse to do so and the road can be blocked for some time until one of the drivers gives way and backs up. As you can see in the video some roads are very steep and can exceed a ratio of 1 in 4 or on newer roads the sign’s will show the gradient expressed as a percentage (or 25%). Finally keep in mind that you won’t be the only inexperienced driver for the conditions and if you are wanting to see the scenery you might be better taking local buses or taxis if it’s in your budget, ask your hotel when you are making a reservation about available tours.
I have visited The Lake District and lived in the Cotswolds and they are both beautiful places and when you come to the UK you need to visit both places.
Note "Lake" Windermere is incorrect. It's actually called Windermere (mere meaning water lake etc, so it's a bit like calling it Lake Winderlake, it's no Biggie everyone does it. There is actually only one lake called Lake on the Lake District the rest are called Water or Tarn etc, for example Coniston Water Red Tarn etc. Piece of pointless trivia for you 🤔) Compared to the US our mountains would be considered small, I think you could manage it all, you don't need to take Striding Edge, there are other easy routes up Helvellyn. I'm a twenty minutes drive down off the fell into Kendal. It's very nice. In Penrith you can see three castles all within a twenty minute drive, Brougham Castle Lowther Castle and Penrith Castle. Drystone walls are all over the place, my garden is surrounded by them. You don't really need a boat to fish on most waters on the UK. it's possible to sort one for lake fishing. You can fish for salmon trout (rainbow brown and sea) pike perch (like a small stripey bass) carp etc. You can also fish for Artic Char in Windermere from a boat. Lots of fishing is privately owned, but on club waters you can get day tickets etc. My mates restaurant is in Ambleside you should call in 😂 The towns are useful for finding places to stay. The towns are in the Lake District but they are very small, most less than 10000 population, Kendal Penrith and Keswick being the three biggest. You can ride horse, another thing to do is to walk High Street (I see it from my garden) so called as it's a Roman road, on top of the hills. You're also close to Hadrian's Wall (more Roman stuff nearly 2000yrs old) not in the Park but an hour's drive from Keswick. We live in the independent state of Shap (joke) a village on top of a hill in-between the Lake District National Park and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Sorry this has become a VERY long comment.
Lovely video. Never been there. I do live in North wales which has just as stunning views. Even have a small town built inside a castle. Cannot wait for the Cotswolds video where I lived for 35 years. Be nice to virtually go home lol. Have a wonderful day. X
Love watching you interest, we take our campervan to Windermere whenever we have a weekend free. We live about two hours away in a village called Marske which is on the North Coast. We LOVE Windermere for the breathtaking scenery, my husband has arthritic knees so we don’t do the hill walking, just sitting aside the water in a quiet spot is so relaxing. You shouldn’t be afraid of driving the roads, you would get used to driving on the left😜😘
You've probably discovered this, but when in the Windermere area, a lovely spot to just sit and enjoy, especially for couples where one is motabilty challenged through disability, is Cockshot Point, just off Glebe Road in Bowness-on-Windermere. It's easily accesible from the centre of Bowness, and not too far from town to cause too much of a problem. It's a green and tranquil area with superb views of the lake, perfect for taking in the evening sunset, and when you've had your fill of tranquility, it's only a short stroll down wheelchair friendly paths and roads, to get back to the hustle and bustle of Bowness itself.
Striding edge isn’t as bad as it looks, it’s very engaging and fun to do. It looks intimidating from a distance. But close up it’s an easy scramble, certainly not dangerous.
A nice hike that is just outside the boundaries of the lakes, although it's part of the park is one that you can do from the terminus of the ravenglass steam railway. (You need to take the barrow train to Ravenglass, then you're right next to the steam railway station. Get on that to the end of it) - you hike up hardknot pass (which is a road, not a trail, so you can drive there but it's better walking)... and on the top of one of the hills is an old roman fort. The views from there are amazing.
Natasha - If you don't like walking very far, you can take the mountain railway to the summit of Snowdon. OK, it isn't in the lakes. It's in Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. Another beautiful place in the UK, which is well worth visiting.
I think you're going to be surprised when you get to the Lake District. You're never more than 10 minutes walk away from the lake when you're in Keswick, and Windermere is the same. It's all one big area. Just get on a plane already, you're going to love it. And make lots of videos while you're here. And visit us in London.
Have been to Malham Cove; impressive. The river that formed the cove has over time seeped through the rock and is now a stream that emerges at the base of the cove. Kendall mint cake, a white mint bar, very sweet. There are many lakes and towns in the Lake District. Also boat trips and many walks, hikes.
If you're out Malham and Clapham way you could combine your visit with a trip down Ingleborough Cave...a real wow... Debbie, if you take Natasha to visit Malham Cove, ask if she fancies a nice stroll to visit the local lake as she requested...Malham Tarn...might shake her just a little out of her comfort zone :-)
@Natasha and Debbie, What I am most surprised about is that no-one has mentioned the steamers on lake windermere.they are steam powered boats that travel up & down and across the lake.
I live in London but get the train up to the Lake District every year, sometimes twice, and I totally recommend it. It has hills to climb, from gentle to more adventurous. Castlerigg stone circle is nice to visit at sunset. Nearby Keswick is a good base for the Lakes. And Kewick has the best fish and chip shop in England (unscientific biased opinion)
Ladies, this video skims the surface, really. The park is served by a few main roads to the significant towns, Windermere, Ambleside, Grasmere, Coniston and Keswick. To the east of the park is a major highway, the M6, running north to south, and the whole park to the west is semi-enclosed by a coastal railway, which itself is a fantastic journey with great stop-off points, Ravenglass and Muncaster to name a few. There are also a few steam railway trips, Eskdale and Haverigg, and the latter links to a round-trip boat journey on Lake Windermere to Bowness, which is a lakeside town just a very short hop to the town of Windermere. The most spectacular lake in my book is Wastwater in the west of the National park, and requires a bit of driving to get to since it is a tad more remote than the others. The Langdale Pikes, the Fairfield Horseshoe, and countless more provide great hiking opportunities. There are ancient Roman fort sites, steep road passes, fabulous scenery throughout. Kendal mint cake is made in Grasmere and you can visit the premises where it is made. The cake itself is very sweet but designed as an energy food for climbers/hikers. The park is very small compared to US national parks, but a must see. I have rambled on, but just make it part of your itinerary should you fly east.
As you're both fans of fishing and the UK countryside, I highly recommend you check out the BBC programme 'Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing', which is basically a programme about two famous Brit comedians from the 90's who visit various parts of the UK to fish. Apart from the beautiful locations It's very funny and entertaining, and also touches upon some very heartfelt conversations about ageing and health (as both comedians have suffered from serious heart conditions).
M&W GF became an unexpected TV masterpiece from it's inception and is still going strong and now into its sixth series. I too would recommend that Natasha & Debbie check it out, knowing their love for the British countryside, and their interest in fishing, though it's not the kind of program that would be easy to react to online. Just be prepared that fishing comes low down on the list of characters, after: 3) Ted (the dog), 2) Bob & Paul, and 1) The British Countryside
@@DaveBartlett Agreed. I have absolutely no interest in fishing, but it works perfectly in the context of bringing Bob and Paul together in the countryside.
I always recommend that you book an hour or two driving lesson when visiting the UK. It would give you more confidence by starting with a UK driving instructor.
Keswick 🙌🙌🙌 my favourite place in the lakes. My family and I stayed a ten minute walk from Keswick, we took our dog too and walked him in ‘Fitz Park’ every morning. Beautiful views off the hills. X
Hey Ladies The lake District refers to an area which is a national park. It's a series of large lakes that connect to one another. You can take a boat lake on some of the larger lakes.
I would recommend Northumberland and Holy Island. This is the place where the Vikings first invaded and sacked the monastery. Lots of history and it is beautiful.
It looks like many people have answered your questions concerning towns in the Lake District so I won't repeat that information. My wife and I honeymooned in Keswick in 1978. We had not visited the area before but immediately fell in love with it. A few years ago we went back and covered some of the places we did not see first time around. We stayed in the small town of Ulverston were Stan Laurel was born. There is a statue in The town of Laurel & Hardy and Laughing Gravey, and there is a Laurel and Hardy museum in an old cinema. We Also visited Beatrix Potter's house, which is a must. Be warned though that many of the roads are quite narrow ( even for us!)
We as a family have been going to the Lake District for 21 years my first trip was with our daughter when she was 12 weeks old and we still go now in 2022 We mainly go to langdale valley home to scar fell pike, bow fell & hellvellyn The local town is Ambleside we stay in the village of chapel stile we love it so much we go every year I climbed hellvelyn via stridin edge in my younger days also climbed bow fell and lots lots more it’s a must visit
There are many towns within the Lake District some of which are located next to the lakes as with all our national parks which are bigger than you might think they all have towns
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I actually live on the west coast just outside the lake district. That kind of wall you love is called a dry stone wall and is built without cement. My grandad used to build them before his retirement. The winters in the lake district alternate between frost and rain which would destroy any cement used in building the walls. So they're built in a way that the wall structure holds itself together. And any weather damage can be easily repaired in the spring.
I e just stumbled across these type of RUclips posts, Americans reacting to different UK things, but need to say you both make me laugh with the interaction between the two of you. The seeming shyness of Debbie and her touch of eccentricity just bounces off Natasha and her unfiltered way of expressing herself. You both are definitely the most entertaining and I love how the both of you are obviously animal people.
I love malham cove there is a little town nearby that has a stream and a pub then you walk up to the cove and then abound that you can walk/ drive further to another part of the cove
The Lake District is actually quite a large area covering over 2000 square miles and containing around 20 major bodies of water and many smaller. Only one - Bassenthwaite - is officially called a lake, all the others are Waters, Meres, Tarns etc (they aren't lakes as their name is or contains a word which means water or body of water). It's a beautiful place, I've lived close to it for most of my life and have spent a lot of time there. The mint cake you mentioned is Kendal Mint Cake which is basically a confection of sugar and mint essence. It's an energy food and is used by mountineers, it was taken up Everest my Edmund Hillary as energency rations in case they ran out of food.
This may have been said already, but in the UK, National Parks are not pure wilderness areas in government ownership, but areas of landscape that are (mostly) privately owned and include towns and villages within them.
That was a funny. Good to start with a smile. Now looking forward to learning things about the Lake District.
..the reaction to the driving....classic lol
Yes, there are many towns and villages within the Lake District. A very beautiful place to spend time exploring.
Another great video thank you
Great video 😊 There are 16 Lakes in the Lake District, 3 of them ( including Windermere) are available for fishing in. There is Pike , Trout , Roach , Perch , Salmon amongst others.
Only one is called a lake though, fun fact (well, fun might be a stretch).
Don't forget about looking out for the Tizzie-Whizie :)
This is actually one of the better videos for the lake district as its not showing all the touristy bits. If you go fishing you will need to buy a license, (you can buy day ones). Fish wise perch, trout and salmon. I live about 1 hrs drive away from the lakes and once went to the stone circle early morning and there was a humming sound and you could feel the stones vibrating, very mystical.
But it also didn't show much. I wouldn't have wanted to come here on the strength of that video and I live in Windermere. ( the original, not Natasha and Debbie )
The humming sound you mentioned! I used to camp at castlerigg farm in my teens. A friend of mine was always going on about a very slight humming, and vibration in the ground. None of us ever heard or felt it. But he was adamant. He Googled it 3 decades later to prove himself right😂
While it shows the film maker's favourite places, it doesn't really do the whole LD justice, and IMHO doesn't serve as an intro for people who have been there.
Wowa Ive seen a circle they didn't Hum tho. Brilliant.
Great video. It was fun seeing Debbie being silly at the start. The cake was Kendal mint cake. It's very tasty.
I have been in the lake district a few times. The views are fab. There is boat trips on the lake, an aquarium as well. Lot's of great towns to visit as well.
If you love Beatrice Potter there is some centres you can visit.
Oh fish I am Scottish so I am only guessing that it's the same. People fish for trout , rainbow trout, mackerel ,cod, pike , salmon and other stuff.
Hope you all enjoyed this! After reading some of the comments we have a question. Here in the US you must have a fishing license for anywhere you fish. Is this the same there or only national parks? Let us know how you feel about Travel Wednesday's. Thanks for watching everyone ❤❤
You need a environment agency fishing licence to fish anywhere, plus you may need to purchase a day ticket.
Travel Wednesday was excellent. Would love to see more. Your Canadian fan.
You need a licence for Fresh Water only, Obviously, you can sea fish without one. You are never more than about 50 miles from the sea anywhere here, and rods, gear and boats can be hired everywhere.
The idea of national parks in the UK is different from other countries. Here, national parks contain towns and villages, and most of the land is privately owned. However, there are restrictions on what the land can be used for.
People from outside of the UK often fail to realise what a 'National Park' in Britain actually defines. The official definition for a UK National Park is: A general area that is relatively undeveloped, scenic, and attracts tourists, with some form of planning restrictions to ensure it maintains those characteristics. There may be substantial human settlements within the bounds of a national park.
The main difference between UK and US national parks is that in the UK, people permanently occupy land within the park, for purposes other than for the maintenance and upkeep of the national park, and that indpendent businesses, farms and industry are all allowed in the national park, providing it doesn't conflict the definition of a national park.
I went to college at Wray Castle, which was shown at the beginning. Wray Castle is now owned by the National Trust.
A walk around Tarn Howes in the autumn (fall) is even more beautiful.
The amount of times I've been to Keswick and never been to Pencil Museum. Too many Chocolate shops to take up my time 😀
The Lake District national park is 58km (36 miles) by 64km (40miles) and Windermere waters (it’s not officially a lake) is 10.5 miles long. You will find about 24,511 dwellings with about 40,478 people living within the boundaries of the National park.
Within the park 16,510 archaeological sites and monuments are recorded in the Historic Environment Record, including 283 scheduled ancient monuments.
As you will appreciate from these figures villages and farms are spread out within the National Park.
One interesting fact is that Beatrix Potter actually used her own money to buy farms within the Lake District to stop them falling into the hands of developers, on her death she left 4,000 acres of land and countryside to the National Trust, as well as 14 farms. All these farms are still working farms managed by National Trust tenant farmers in accordance with her wishes and the National Trust continue her conservation work in the Lake District to keep it special for ever, for everyone.
It’s just Windermere, mere is another name for lake.
@@paulm2467 thanks you I am from the area and get sick of things like that. Worst i heard was Lake Coniston Water...
Windermere IS officially a lake, though the word 'lake' doesn't form part of its name ('mere' in its name identifies it as a lake,) NOR is it EVER called "Windermere waters" - I think you're the only person ever to call it that. Perhaps you're making up your own rules!
I have spent my whole 67 years walking, climbing and crawling in the Lake District. There are quite a few videos on my channel dedicated to my walking there in all seasons. I love the place. My happy place. Striding Edge, Swirral Edge and Sharp Edge on Blencathra in the north of the district are all awesome routes.
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also lived in the Lake District.
Kendal Mint Cake is a forerunner of the energy bar, Victorian explorers and mountaineers carried them as emergency rations. Btw there's more than a dozen large bodies of water, only one is called a lake, the rest are either called meres or waters, e.g. Ullswater, or Windemere. There're lots of small towns in the Lake District. Fishing is not a big thing, I'm not even sure if it's allowed. Last time I was there was around 3 years ago, delivering 2 Teli-handler all terrain forklifts to a lakeside apartment development in Bowness. If those roads scared you in a car, you should try them in a 7 axle low-loader!!!!!!!
Love you two. Stumbled across you a week ago and have been bingeing since. You need another Lake District video to review that shows the Lakes and peaks, stunning I can assure you, we went in May.
The 'Freddie stash'? Love it! You two are so lovely, I enjoy everything you do, and I hope things get better for you.
All the town's mentioned are in the Lake District, Kendal mint cake is s sugary sweet or Candy as you may call it, and yes people do take their large boats to the lakes and it is as beautiful as you have seen, there are dozens of lakes small and large, yes you can go fishing in the lakes and rivers in the lake District, oh and the wall's you saw are all dry walls so no cement just stones large and small stacked up carefully usually by the farmers and worker's I hope that helps with some of your questions, so all the best to you from Yorkshire, England.
It isn't as simple as that: Some of the towns mentioned, specifically Kendal, are NOT in the Lake District, but just adjacent to it.
Declaring "yes, you can go fishing in the lakes and rivers in the Lake District' is not correct, since many of the lakes have restrctions on fishing, requiring licences to fish there. Some of the smaller lakes and some tarns are actually privately owned, and don't allow fishing at all.
George R. R. Martin based a lot of Game of Thrones on the 'War of the Roses' which was fought between the Lancasters and Yorks, so in a way you were correct.
Nice bloke! :D Love your reactions! Visited the pencil museum 30+ years ago and still talk about it! So it must have been good!! ;) My favourite part of the reaction was your trauma at the (right) 'wrong' side of the road - lol! Yet another great reaction
The fish that people mainly go for in the lake district are Pike that go well over 30lbs and Trout that go to double figures there are also Perch over 3lb.
Always love seeing vids like this I live in Cumbria where the Lake District is, just about 10mins drive outside the park on the coast by the sea. Love going into the lakes to climb the mountains (we call them fells). People do live in the park lots of farms and small towns pretty expensive tho inside the boundary of the park to live! There's some great places to see especially as a local there's some less touristy sites that are fun to explore
I live near the Lake District and I’ve been going there regularly since I was a baby. My girlfriend isn’t from the UK, so this summer I took her to the Lakes for a week and showed her around a lot of those places. Her favourite things from the whole week was Grasmere gingerbread, castlerigg stone circle and South Lakes safari zoo. Many photos were taken.
Thanks for the video - I'd nearly forgotten that I got a 1lb bar of kendal mint cake for Christmas.
I think I love that pen as much as Debbie! It's fantastic! 😂😂
I worked for a period as the hotel manager of a hotel in the LD, Striding Edge is actually quite dangerous, 13 people died on there in 2016 and 20 in 2017, if you are a novice I would recommend trying much easier walks as even experienced fell walkers get in to trouble.
There are so many beautiful areas to see. Hurry up and come to the UK we are waiting to welcome you both
Ive actually been a few times and never knew these places existed. Have mainly done the big tourist places windermere, the pike and Cockermouth.... yes you read that correctly always made me smile as a kid. 🤣 beautiful part of the country ❤
No mention of the Ravenglass - Eskdale light railway, a pleasure cruise on Lake Windermere, the poet William Wordsworth's house in Grassmere or the nearby Grassmere Gingerbread shop housed in a 17th century school which I'm sure Debbie would enjoy. There again, it was his top 10 not mine.
The thing I enjoyed the most on our visit to Windermere was going on a steam boat trip around the lake. It took us away from all the people and motor bikes 🏍. We also had fun looking at all the 🏍 and seeing if we could pair them with there owners. I know it sounds sad 😂😂
It's a lovely place and only about an hour or so from me in Liverpool. Its very busy in the summer. We went kayaking on Lake windermere on one of the hottest days of the year. The pubs ad restaurants are great and serve locally brewed beers and local produced food. You'll love it. Loads of lakes and villages in the Lake District.
Great video. I learned a lot! 😊🙏
If you like fishing and the British landscape I’d highly recommend Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - it’s two comedians and mates who have had health scares going around the country and talking about life - it’s very funny and beautifully shot, and really it’s about life, love and friendship and all that good stuff more than the fishing but I think you might enjoy it ☺️
I apologise, I've just recommended the exact same thing without seeing your comment. You've put it much better than I have though :)
@@SirHilaryManfat that’s quite alright, I do tend to ramble, and more recommendations is always good!
Driving on the left (on purpose), balancing on mountain tops, that’s how we roll here, lol
That's the cave (3:51) that was used in the Deadly Rabbit scene from Monty Python And The Holy Grail... 🤣🤣
Just to confuse you, Kendal Mint Cake is not cake !! It's a slab of minty stuck together sugar for hikers needing that extra instant energy. You'll see it sold all over the lake district. You only buy it once.
Nope...we and our kids buy it repeatedly...far more than is good for us...it's very sweet, but also very more-ish
Starting from the second year of our marriage, my wife & I usually spent our summer vacation in The Lake District, which stopped when we'd had the first of our 4 children. We didn't return to the Lake District until our eldest was 9 and our youngest was 4. I knew I'd missed The Lake District in the intervening years, but I didn't realise how much I'd missed it. The feeling I got when we eventually returned there was overwhelming, and I can only describe the emotion I felt as the Lake District hills came into view, as such an intense relief that I felt as though I had been holding my breath for all of the intervening years, and only on return to The Lakes did I feel as though I could spiritually breathe again.
The Lake District National Park is quite large. The towns mentioned in the video straddle the area and can be considered part of the area but usually not the park itself. The park itself is deemed an area of outstanding natural beauty and cannot be built on. It is located in the North-West of England in United Kingdom which is the region of England I am from and live in.
Though there are certain restrictions within certain restricted areas, within the National Park, saying that the National Park 'cannot be built' on, is totally misinformed and incorrect rubbish.
There are towns and farms in the lake district I, Windermere is on the banks of lake windermere, you can go on boat trips on the lakes. This also a ferry
The towns are all in the park, for certain. I am from the area, I've seen the whole park, many times. It's lush and green and will blow your minds. It's a must if you love countryside with little splashes of villages here and there.
The fishing in the Lake District is very varied. It is probably most known for its large pike , found in the lakes as well as brown trout and char, there are also what we in Britain call coarse fish, roach , Rudd ,perch etc, the rivers including the river Kent mentioned have Atlantic Salmon and sea trout in them.
Not "Finless Brown Trout" I hope :)
I have been numerous times as I use to live just over an hour away, it's gorgeous, as a kid my best friend had a holiday home overlooking Lake Windermere, and when I visited my father when my kids were younger we took them there as they grew up with Beatrix Potter
You’ll both be fine in the Lake District ….. my hiking hubby goes up the peaks while I get comfy at the bottom with my sewing 🤗 it’s not all about the climbing…go to Keswick for the shopping and the cafes 👍
Hi! When in UK and you think Town but you get to the countryside - think village especially around Lake District in the north and the Cotswolds in the south, old England.
You need to find a video with regards to a Malcolm and Donald Campbell. They were record breakers in land and water speed. Donald Campbell died during a record attempt on Coniston water in the Lake District in 1967 ish.
Excellent video, good information and some beautiful scenery and well presented. I have only once stayed in the Lake District, we had B&B in Bowness for a weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Fishing is limited there, but around the country there are thousands of fisheries where you are almost guaranteed to catch, you will need a licence though. I only fish in the warmer weather these days as sitting on the bank for hours freezing my nuts off is less appealing the older you get.
I believe there are tourist boat trips and day fishing licences available on Esthwaite Water these days.
Northumberland is the place to go ! with reference to Game Of Thrones, this is now north of the wall
A great rection video - and that's a very useful, practical guide for visiting the Lake District!
Most rivers, canels and lakes in the UK as a whole are clean enough for fishing; although best to avoid river esturies near cities.
You will need a licence though.
And yes, depending which town you are in you can also charter a boat for fishing - although most will be coastal.
Those stone walls which look so beautiful are called dry stone walls and many were built 100s of years ago it is a skilled job to build and repair them as the stones are selected to fit tightly together and no cement is used at all.
If you don't like walking you could always take an open top bus ride through the lake district. They have regular open top double deck bus routes.
I stayed in bowness 3o years ago ,hired a boat most days on windermere,a long walk to Ambleside one day ,Keswick etc nice ,everywhere nice and we were lucky nice weather everyday ,well worth a visit
The whole Lake District area is more than just the National Park, so yes the towns around the Park are part of the Lake District area. However, there are several small villages within the Park as well.
Its also the place in the UK with highest rainfall. Its very beautiful though. My wife doesn`t walk but she enjoyed the towns and villages. There are amazing boat trips, I loved the ones on Windermere. Malham cove isn`t in the Lake District but its not too far by car to get there. We also went to Hadrians Wall ( A famous Roman structure running across the north of England from East to west coast ) when we were staying in the area, I think it was about 40 mins away by car.
For your Cotswolds trek - check out Bourton-On-The-Water... 😉
A very beautiful village with a river running through it only deep enough to paddle in - it's like the seaside but surrounded by hills... 👍
You two are awesome. Love your videos and so glad I have subscribed to your channel. Unfortunately, I have never been to the Lake District. ☺☺☺
I'm sure someone has already explained the walls. They are call "dry stone wall" and it is a dying art in knowing how to build them. No cement of any type is used. They are just stones stacked to form a wall. Usually, the builder does not break any stone to make the wall - it is all done by visualizing how each stone fits.
Natasha , the look on your face was priceless when they suggested hiking .🇬🇧
Hiking+Natasha=🙄😵💫
I loved your reaction to the road conditions and you need to realise that some of what you saw was on relatively broad roads, in some cases the roads are literally single track roads with passing places spaced along the length. If you are driving on such a road, you need to be aware that you might have to reverse to the nearest passing place. Unfortunately some people refuse to do so and the road can be blocked for some time until one of the drivers gives way and backs up. As you can see in the video some roads are very steep and can exceed a ratio of 1 in 4 or on newer roads the sign’s will show the gradient expressed as a percentage (or 25%). Finally keep in mind that you won’t be the only inexperienced driver for the conditions and if you are wanting to see the scenery you might be better taking local buses or taxis if it’s in your budget, ask your hotel when you are making a reservation about available tours.
It's a fantastic area, if you have the weather with you. Buttermere lives in my heart. It's special special. Xx
Love the jumper 👍
It's amazing in the lake district even swam in lake windermere cold as hell but something I remember very fondly.
Another fantastic video 😀
I have visited The Lake District and lived in the Cotswolds and they are both beautiful places and when you come to the UK you need to visit both places.
Note "Lake" Windermere is incorrect. It's actually called Windermere (mere meaning water lake etc, so it's a bit like calling it Lake Winderlake, it's no Biggie everyone does it.
There is actually only one lake called Lake on the Lake District the rest are called Water or Tarn etc, for example Coniston Water Red Tarn etc. Piece of pointless trivia for you 🤔)
Compared to the US our mountains would be considered small, I think you could manage it all, you don't need to take Striding Edge, there are other easy routes up Helvellyn.
I'm a twenty minutes drive down off the fell into Kendal. It's very nice.
In Penrith you can see three castles all within a twenty minute drive, Brougham Castle Lowther Castle and Penrith Castle.
Drystone walls are all over the place, my garden is surrounded by them.
You don't really need a boat to fish on most waters on the UK. it's possible to sort one for lake fishing.
You can fish for salmon trout (rainbow brown and sea) pike perch (like a small stripey bass) carp etc. You can also fish for Artic Char in Windermere from a boat. Lots of fishing is privately owned, but on club waters you can get day tickets etc.
My mates restaurant is in Ambleside you should call in 😂
The towns are useful for finding places to stay.
The towns are in the Lake District but they are very small, most less than 10000 population, Kendal Penrith and Keswick being the three biggest.
You can ride horse, another thing to do is to walk High Street (I see it from my garden) so called as it's a Roman road, on top of the hills. You're also close to Hadrian's Wall (more Roman stuff nearly 2000yrs old) not in the Park but an hour's drive from Keswick.
We live in the independent state of Shap (joke) a village on top of a hill in-between the Lake District National Park and the Yorkshire Dales National Park
Sorry this has become a VERY long comment.
Lovely video. Never been there. I do live in North wales which has just as stunning views. Even have a small town built inside a castle. Cannot wait for the Cotswolds video where I lived for 35 years. Be nice to virtually go home lol. Have a wonderful day. X
Love watching you interest, we take our campervan to Windermere whenever we have a weekend free. We live about two hours away in a village called Marske which is on the North Coast.
We LOVE Windermere for the breathtaking scenery, my husband has arthritic knees so we don’t do the hill walking, just sitting aside the water in a quiet spot is so relaxing. You shouldn’t be afraid of driving the roads, you would get used to driving on the left😜😘
You've probably discovered this, but when in the Windermere area, a lovely spot to just sit and enjoy, especially for couples where one is motabilty challenged through disability, is Cockshot Point, just off Glebe Road in Bowness-on-Windermere. It's easily accesible from the centre of Bowness, and not too far from town to cause too much of a problem. It's a green and tranquil area with superb views of the lake, perfect for taking in the evening sunset, and when you've had your fill of tranquility, it's only a short stroll down wheelchair friendly paths and roads, to get back to the hustle and bustle of Bowness itself.
Hello ladies from Wales. I love your videos. Don't worry if you think some things in the UK are strange - we do too - it's cool to be qwirky!
Striding edge isn’t as bad as it looks, it’s very engaging and fun to do.
It looks intimidating from a distance. But close up it’s an easy scramble, certainly not dangerous.
Debbie and her Pen! SO cute 😍 🤣
There's loads of fishing in the lakes from trout and salmon in the rivers , pike, trout, roach and course fish in the lakes . You can hire boats .
A nice hike that is just outside the boundaries of the lakes, although it's part of the park is one that you can do from the terminus of the ravenglass steam railway. (You need to take the barrow train to Ravenglass, then you're right next to the steam railway station. Get on that to the end of it) - you hike up hardknot pass (which is a road, not a trail, so you can drive there but it's better walking)... and on the top of one of the hills is an old roman fort. The views from there are amazing.
I live in the Lakes and your welcome anytime Natasha and Debbie
Natasha - If you don't like walking very far, you can take the mountain railway to the summit of Snowdon. OK, it isn't in the lakes. It's in Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. Another beautiful place in the UK, which is well worth visiting.
It's going to be a Travel Tuesday video soon!
I think you're going to be surprised when you get to the Lake District. You're never more than 10 minutes walk away from the lake when you're in Keswick, and Windermere is the same. It's all one big area. Just get on a plane already, you're going to love it. And make lots of videos while you're here. And visit us in London.
Have been to Malham Cove; impressive. The river that formed the cove has over time seeped through the rock and is now a stream that emerges at the base of the cove. Kendall mint cake, a white mint bar, very sweet. There are many lakes and towns in the Lake District. Also boat trips and many walks, hikes.
If you're out Malham and Clapham way you could combine your visit with a trip down Ingleborough Cave...a real wow...
Debbie, if you take Natasha to visit Malham Cove, ask if she fancies a nice stroll to visit the local lake as she requested...Malham Tarn...might shake her just a little out of her comfort zone :-)
You two are certainly having a lot of fun with that pen 🤣
You get brown trout in the lakes and rivers. There are also land locked char but I think they have a season for char and also pike.
@Natasha and Debbie,
What I am most surprised about is that no-one has mentioned the steamers on lake windermere.they are steam powered boats that travel up & down and across the lake.
The reaction at the beginning of the video with the POV in the car made me laugh. You are both adorable
I live in London but get the train up to the Lake District every year, sometimes twice, and I totally recommend it. It has hills to climb, from gentle to more adventurous. Castlerigg stone circle is nice to visit at sunset. Nearby Keswick is a good base for the Lakes. And Kewick has the best fish and chip shop in England (unscientific biased opinion)
43 years ago we had our honeymoon in the lake district. A magical time in a magical place.
Ladies, this video skims the surface, really. The park is served by a few main roads to the significant towns, Windermere, Ambleside, Grasmere, Coniston and Keswick. To the east of the park is a major highway, the M6, running north to south, and the whole park to the west is semi-enclosed by a coastal railway, which itself is a fantastic journey with great stop-off points, Ravenglass and Muncaster to name a few. There are also a few steam railway trips, Eskdale and Haverigg, and the latter links to a round-trip boat journey on Lake Windermere to Bowness, which is a lakeside town just a very short hop to the town of Windermere. The most spectacular lake in my book is Wastwater in the west of the National park, and requires a bit of driving to get to since it is a tad more remote than the others. The Langdale Pikes, the Fairfield Horseshoe, and countless more provide great hiking opportunities. There are ancient Roman fort sites, steep road passes, fabulous scenery throughout. Kendal mint cake is made in Grasmere and you can visit the premises where it is made. The cake itself is very sweet but designed as an energy food for climbers/hikers. The park is very small compared to US national parks, but a must see. I have rambled on, but just make it part of your itinerary should you fly east.
As you're both fans of fishing and the UK countryside, I highly recommend you check out the BBC programme 'Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing', which is basically a programme about two famous Brit comedians from the 90's who visit various parts of the UK to fish. Apart from the beautiful locations It's very funny and entertaining, and also touches upon some very heartfelt conversations about ageing and health (as both comedians have suffered from serious heart conditions).
Concur fully!
M&W GF became an unexpected TV masterpiece from it's inception and is still going strong and now into its sixth series. I too would recommend that Natasha & Debbie check it out, knowing their love for the British countryside, and their interest in fishing, though it's not the kind of program that would be easy to react to online. Just be prepared that fishing comes low down on the list of characters, after: 3) Ted (the dog), 2) Bob & Paul, and 1) The British Countryside
@@DaveBartlett Agreed. I have absolutely no interest in fishing, but it works perfectly in the context of bringing Bob and Paul together in the countryside.
I always recommend that you book an hour or two driving lesson when visiting the UK. It would give you more confidence by starting with a UK driving instructor.
Keswick 🙌🙌🙌 my favourite place in the lakes. My family and I stayed a ten minute walk from Keswick, we took our dog too and walked him in ‘Fitz Park’ every morning. Beautiful views off the hills. X
Great to see you guys happier and both really relaxing in front of the camera and expressing yourselves more great bud btw:)
Hey Ladies
The lake District refers to an area which is a national park. It's a series of large lakes that connect to one another. You can take a boat lake on some of the larger lakes.
I would recommend Northumberland and Holy Island. This is the place where the Vikings first invaded and sacked the monastery. Lots of history and it is beautiful.
It looks like many people have answered your questions concerning towns in the Lake District so I won't repeat that information. My wife and I honeymooned in Keswick in 1978. We had not visited the area before but immediately fell in love with it. A few years ago we went back and covered some of the places we did not see first time around. We stayed in the small town of Ulverston were Stan Laurel was born. There is a statue in The town of Laurel & Hardy and Laughing Gravey, and there is a Laurel and Hardy museum in an old cinema. We Also visited Beatrix Potter's house, which is a must. Be warned though that many of the roads are quite narrow ( even for us!)
If you're not into hiking up mountains, there are some amazing walks around the lakes. Some lovely villages too.
We as a family have been going to the Lake District for 21 years my first trip was with our daughter when she was 12 weeks old and we still go now in 2022
We mainly go to langdale valley home to scar fell pike, bow fell & hellvellyn
The local town is Ambleside we stay in the village of chapel stile we love it so much we go every year I climbed hellvelyn via stridin edge in my younger days also climbed bow fell and lots lots more it’s a must visit
There are many towns within the Lake District some of which are located next to the lakes as with all our national parks which are bigger than you might think they all have towns
Born and bred jn the lakes. Great people and stunning place