Grasmere & Tarn Hows - Americans Hiking in England’s Lake District

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Thanks for watching! If you missed the Grasmere Gingerbread video, or are crazy enough to watch again, here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3aceqaIfLmMea8

[@AndyMcGhee-qf8sf]

‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket’, Dara ? 🤔😂 Now THERE’S a fascinating explanation on one of your differences in language vids (I am presuming you know what that phrase means ?). Seriously, another beautifully shot video 👍

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

5:02 John had full English breakfast w/potatoes everyday of our trip. And he has had it just about everyday since our return making his own “English bacon” from a recipe he found on line. ~Cara ❤

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers wow I am impressed! I've never heard of anyone making their own English bacon!

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

@@MagentaOtterTravels he found a great recipe. Lots of detail..brining and butcher cut of pork with just the right amount of fat. 😊

[@terry9325]

I remember along time ago my wife iceskating on Tarn Hows, one very cold winter it was magical watching her gliding round the tarn ❄️⛸️ happy days.😊

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Wow, that must have been a cold winter!!

[@The_Brit_Girls]

Hi Dara & Ian, we absolutely love the Lake District! Grasmere is especially gorgeous. You took some wonderful video and drone footage. Glad Wordsworth got a well-deserved mention! 👍 Too late for daffodils but oh my, the wisteria hanging over the walls was so fabulous! Haha, those cows were so sassy! 🐄🐄 Thanks for another wonderful travel vlog. Have a lovely weekend ❤❤

[@GENerationXplorers]

Great lesson on Tarns and Waters! Sure a lot will find that helpful. Wordsworth of course the most famous resident. Oh good you mention him! I’m with Wordsworth on Grasmere, great place. The walk up lion and the lamb takes in the grounds of one of Wordsworths longest residences. Busy as ever the gingerbread shop! Do like Baldrys, been there a few times! Mmm, fried bread and hash browns delicious, love both! Interesting name for the toilet! A lot of walkers going round Grasmere water, that part of road you have to do for the last section, hence why there were so many people on it. Sketchy roads for oncoming traffic! Oreo cows, thats a belting name for the Galloway! Will have to try and get back to the Lakes soon! Well done on the hiking sticks, great purchase! Awesome waterfalls. 👍

[@DaveCollierCamping]

Excellent share

[@neilonguitar6258]

Myself (58), my wife (56) and daughter (19) went up Coniston Old Man for the second time this year. A couple of years ago we walked up Helvellyn via Striding Edge having previously done it in our 30s. On both occasions we knew it would be the last time we did the walk as they were so hard and in the case of Striding Edge, terrifying. But I would really recommend doing something big while still young enough. The sense of achievement is worth it and the views amazing.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@neilonguitar6258 wow, I'm impressed! I'm paranoid about safety, but as long as trails are safe, I do think it's good to push yourself and do some steep climbs to beautiful views ⛰️

[@FeinDining]

We're here within the first hour! It's a Christmas miracle 😁 And that looks like the breakfast of CHAMPIONS 👏 Bring on all the fried bread AND the hash browns -- the more choices, the better 🎉 If it's any consolation, we moo'd like crazy watching 😉Hope y'all are having an awesome time during the most wonderful time of the year ♥

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@FeinDining it is a Christmas miracle! So nice to hear from you! I wish you a very happy holiday with all the choices of delicious food possible! I absolutely loved your Christmas card post that I saw yesterday. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to comment yet. But it was amazing!❤️🎄

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

Great video Dara! Beautiful hike and loved all the huge ferns!!! However, the narrow roads (driveways 😂) is the reason we took trains 😂 Ian is brave! Thanks for taking us along. ~Cara We really miss the UK! 😢

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers it is bittersweet to hear that you miss the UK! I miss it as well! Especially my friends. And family. And the food! And yes, those roads do look like driveways! Certainly not wide enough for two-way traffic! 😂

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Great video Dara! I went into a pub in Grassmere and there was a woman balancing a pint of beer on her head while playing snooker!! It was Beer-Tricks Potter!!!!

[@ruthgoebel723]

This place is on my bucket list, but not on a bank holiday!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Haha, good plan!

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Fried bread is essential for a proper full English and hash browns are a welcome addition!!😊😊😊😊😊

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Very open-minded of you to allow the hashbrowns as well!

[@iankelly5387]

Fried bread Dara, having a hash brown is a bit too similar and not needed. Breakfast looked nice though. Thank you for educating me on the lake district, I really didn't have much of a clue! Lovely countryside up north ☔⛱🌤

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@iankelly5387 oh yes, now that you are retired, take a friend who loves hiking and go visit! Just bring your waterproof gear 😂

[@iankelly5387]

@@MagentaOtterTravels - Exactly the plan in 2025!

[@AlastairjCarruthers]

Great to see you learning about meres, tarns, waters etc. A related question that often comes up in general knowledge quizzes in the UK is "how many Lakes are there in the Lake District?" and the answer is just one - Bassenthwaite Lake. A cute piece of trivia regarding Beatrix Potter is that apparently her books are popular in Japan, and often read in schools there, and to children. For that reason the southern Lake District has for a long time received an unusually large number of Japanese tourists. Even when I was growing up there in the 80s there were a lot of them around, and when I worked a supermarket checkout/cash register in Windermere as a teenager I'd often befriend groups of them, who'd make sure to return to my register every time they came back. I like to think there are probably still photos of me in dozens of family photo albums all across Japan, as they'd usually want a photo with me before they left 😊 That breakfast looks great! Like many seemingly trivial things, the contents of a full English breakfast is the subject of much fierce debate. Some people get especially weird about the inclusion of hash browns, seeing them as an American interloper. I'm more a modernist on this point, a full English should include some sort of potato item (bubble & squeak, potato cake etc), and hash browns have been common for at least 40 or so years here, so are an acceptable potato option by now. That's as well as fried bread and toast - all three feature in the list of ten mandatory components of a full English breakfast (you seem to be missing bacon and mushrooms, but well done for including black pudding, the best bit 😉) Stone wall fact: Apparently some dry stone walls in the area you visited were built by Norsemen around a thousand years ago. Wet as an otter's pocket? Bravo 😂

[@stephensanderson8920]

Fryed bread makes for a far superior breakfast.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@stephensanderson8920 spoken like a true Englishman!

[@primalengland]

Tarn Hows is actually a landscaped tarn, done by John Marshall, a local industrialist. It is spectacular in summer when you can see the Langdales in the background. My mum is 96, and I take her every summer so she can sit at the disabled carpark at the top, and relive the days when, 65 years ago, she brought us, with my dad, to the lakes numerous times over the summer. It was the only place we ever holidayed, and where I learned my lifelong love of climbing.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@primalengland oh, that is so sweet! Makes me want to cry! I love that the lake has such special memories for you!❤️ And God bless your mother for still being around at 96 and able to enjoy trips to the lake !! XX Dara

[@primalengland]

@ Thank you, Dara, she often crops up in my own KZbin channel. I concentrate on slow living, but a belligerent Great Granny often gets her opinions out there.

[@idristaylor5093]

The bread should be bread and butter or toast or a fried slice while the potato I grew up with was the croquette that has now been pushed aside by the waffle that is now facing rivalry from chips. In my opinion any one from both trios is ok.

[@CUFC247]

Fried bread is tradtionally an item on a FEB in the past but now Hash Browns seem to have taken over as they are a bit healthier, personally a FEB should include Bubble and Squeak instead of Hash Browns, with an occasional slice of Fried Bread as a treat.

[@glenmiller272]

Hash browns are a fairly recent addition probably in the last 20 years or so, proper full English has only fried bread done in Lard..

[@griswald7156]

Consulate …cool as a mountain stream…

[@Poliss95]

@griswald7156 I won't tell you what we used to call them. Not for family reading. 🤣

[@griswald7156]

@ oh go on…we’re all broad minded here…

[@Poliss95]

@@griswald7156 😂😂Something to do with wordplay on embassy type places.

[@griswald7156]

@@Poliss95 i give up …im ready to hear it now…da da drum roll..

[@griswald7156]

Consummate ,Constipate ??

[@DHenry-oo7ut]

I bet your glad you are Texas, at least it don't rain.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Not very much rain, anyway. Which is why we don't have green fields and lovely flowers like England ;-)

[@paulguise698]

Hiya Dara, I havent been to Grasmere for years,back in the 1980s I used to go with Nanna and Granda, to caraven rallies, and Grasmere was a favourite, Ive never had Keswick Ketchup or Cumberland spice sauce, but Im sure they taste nice, Ive got the recipe for Grasmere Gingerbread ,Ill tell you tomorrow what the book is called and you can order it, this is Choppy

[@davidmarsden9800]

The Hadrian's Wall forts had flushing toilet blocks.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Well, that's quite old indeed!

[@davidmarsden9800]

@MagentaOtterTravels They diverted springs through the forts to have running water go to key areas then in a channel under the seats of the toilets and then away out of the fort. The remains of one can be seen at Housesteads fort.

[@griswald7156]

Hash browns ? I would prefer bubble and squeak patties .with the fried bread….the breakfast looked a masterpiece though….and those sauces deserve investigation and perhaps investment..

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@griswald7156 bubble and squeak is fantastic! But I never see it on menus and restaurants! Maybe I'm going to the wrong places? The breakfast was amazing, and I have been craving those sauces! You should see if you can get them in your area ... let me know if you find a website that ships them! I won't ship them to Texas, but I would definitely consider Gloucestershire 😉

[@griswald7156]

@ I think bubble might be an east London dish..I’ll check out Les saucissons..

[@AlastairjCarruthers]

​@@MagentaOtterTravels Bubble and squeak on a full English breakfast is mainly a London thing, I've never seen it in the Lake District, or in the West Country where I believe you're based while here (I've lived in all three areas, and love a full English from time to time). It is very good though 👍🏼

[@f3aok]

Definitely need fried bread. But a vegetarian full English 😮 Sacrilege 😉

[@Poliss95]

@f3aok If done right you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, except that the sausages might actually taste of something.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@f3aok I know, when it comes to food, I am very sacrilegious! I eat vegetarian full English breakfast and I drink herbal tea at an afternoon tea! 😱😱😱

[@Poliss95]

@@MagentaOtterTravels I went to an old fashioned type transport *caff just down the street from Darlington railways station where they served fry-ups in the traditional way. i.e. The kind of place where Americans get the idea of British food being bad. It was soooo awful I nearly complained! I certainly didn't finish it, whatever it was. Had to wait ages for it too. *I won't dignify it by calling it a café.

[@Poliss95]

So no hosts of golden daffodils in the Wordsworth garden? I was in a queue as long as that gingerbread queue today and all I wanted was tomatoes. Someone put a Friday the 13th curse on me because nothing went right"" Fifteen quid for breakfast? You can see why I always take my own eatables. Named after William Baldry, not Long John Baldry? I'm disappointed. Not so sure about the 'No preservatives' boast. What do they think salt is? I don't have anything against preservatives anyway. Nothing wrong with fried bread if there's a fried egg to go with it. Hash Brown's are more of a dinner thing for me, as are mushrooms. Not a fan of the 'Full English'. Me not long distance lorry driver. I always say Keswick like Poirot does. Elizabeth I was the first to have a flushing toilet as I recall. Oh, you know that story. (Typing as I watch). Long dog leads. What's the point? They only make the dog strain at them from 5 yards further away, and the dog can now run into the road too. That's a VERY green place. When walking along a road with no pavement or verge always walk on the right hand side of the road facing the oncoming traffic. 10:08 Now that's the kind of waterfall I like. Not one of those horrid wear things. I never understood those hiking stick thingies. Just more weight to carry. If Tarn declared independence would it be a Tarn Nation? (That should go in a Xmas cracker). Bye-bye Lake District. Hello old family seat.

[@davidmarsden9800]

To have hash browns on a full English breakfast instead of fried bread is just a post 1970s perversion. 😢

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I have heard that! Thanks for confirming my suspicion 😆

[@jfergs.3302]

Wow, a vegetarian full English! And the award for oxymoron of the year goes to... 😀

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I know... it's almost as bad as when I have a cream tea and drink herbal tea, right? Please don't vote to ban me from living in England!