[Travel] Advice for Lake District

[darkwolf666]

Have a great holiday! You deserve it

Thank you. I figure that if we avoid the obvious pinch points for people then we should be able to have a bloody good time!

We are meeting up with my brother and his wife and our little one's sister - all pre testing, as are we. A little bit of normality for us!

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Great place for a holiday……take a brolly. Or 3…..

 

[darkwolf666]

Great place for a holiday……take a brolly. Or 3…..

Thank you. We have our wet weather gear packed!

Think this could be a great holiday, or a never to be repeated experience...

 

[Surf's Up]

My favourite is Wastwater - it's a bit off the normal tourist circuit, it can be a dark, portentous, broody place - superb for photography - and features some of the highest peaks and deepest waters in England. Not great for exploring with a buggy but limited exploration probably possible around the top end of the lake and you can get watered and fed at the Wasdale Head Inn. To complete your experience of the relatively wilder aspects of the Lake District return to civilisation via the Hardknott Pass.

 

[Surf's Up]

Here's a couple of pictures I took when I was in the Wastwater iarea n February - they'll either convince you to go or convince you not to go!!

 

[Swansman]

Here's a couple of pictures I took when I was in the Wastwater iarea n February - they'll either convince you to go or convince you not to go!!

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Looking really nice. Very British, arguably the one kind of environment I usually see from pictures over there that we really don't have over here afaik and something I'll be eager to explore when I finally get my arse over for a visit.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I am visiting my youngest daughter in Ulverston in a couple of weeks and am really looking forward to visiting the Stan Laurel Museum. He was born there and it celebrates the great man's life.

TNBA

TTF

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Don't swim in Lake Windermere, it's has sewage pumped into it and is toxic.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ere-toxic-cobra-venom-owing-sewage-pollution/

 

[vegster]

I am visiting my youngest daughter in Ulverston in a couple of weeks and am really looking forward to visiting the Stan Laurel Museum. He was born there and it celebrates the great man's life.

TNBA

TTF

Been there myself, Ulverston quite a nice little town and the L&H museum magical....it pissed down all day when we went !

 

[vegster]

I had a Public Inquiry in Ravenglass many years ago, with a locum Solicitor helping me. The path in question was in Boot, so we all went there to look at it. The Solicitor then said 'what's the best way back to Kendal' and unthinkingly I just said 'Hardknott & Wrynose, just follow me - I'm going that way'. Got to Kendal, and he was still white and shaking - he simply said 'never do that to me again'. I simply had no thought that being a visitor to the area he wouldn't have automatically known what to expect, I assumed everyone knew - but he had no prior concept of hills or hairpin bends!!

I think every driver should do this once ...once is enough though and you should get some kind of badge or certificate for doing it !