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Zoesky1
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Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 778
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 1:36 pm: |     |
Has anyone here ever visited the Lake District in England? Just doing research for possible future trip...but am starting from scratch. What can anyone tell me? For instance: what do you do there...what was the weather like...where did you stay...how long were you there and did you get bored...
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akb
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Username: Akb
Post Number: 293
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 9:49 am: | |
We've been Zoe. My impressions are: very sweet; quaint; busy; close to lots of other places; decent weather for the UK. I strongly encourage you to go offseason (we went in May and it was already quite busy on Lake Windermere). The Yorkshire Dales are beautiful too and worth the trip over. It is a cute place to visit with little kids but I wouldn't plan on staying too long unless you want to make it a base for day trips elsewhere. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 666
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 8:41 pm: | |
Spent some quality time in Carlisle, which is worth the trip. Personally I preferred the area around Derwent Water to Windemere, but that's just a matter of personal taste. South of Ullswater you can do some good hill walking, and the views can be quite fantastic.
There are tons of B&Bs in Carlisle, Penrith, and Brampton. Just northeast of Brampton, you can see parts of Hadrian's Wall, and you're a short drive from the villages on both sides of the Scottish border. You can also take a drive out to the coast to the Solway Firth and look out both North and West to Scotland.
Weather in May-June is fairly stable, but you're near the coast and the Irish Sea, and if it wants to get rainy and windy, believe me, it will.
What's to do is walk, hike, check out local museums. At your pub lunch, ask the publican what's happening nearby, and you'll get much of the information you need.
Travel well and safely. |
llama
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Username: Llama
Post Number: 665
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 8:40 am: | |
I think it has some of the most beautiful scenery in Europe. The hills undulate unlike anywhere else. The anceint stone walls, the quaint villages. We stayed at a lovely farm B&B with a storybook view of the hills out our window and watched a border collie train it's puppies early one morning. You will barely be able to understand the locals accents. It's a great place to get out and walk, have picnics, get into some poetry, and reflect upon life itself. |
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