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Triumph Spitfire - UK spitfire vacation No LBC content

Sorry to bomb the group. I'm looking to take my wife to the UK this upcoming summer for our 15 year anniversary. This to make up for my spending too much time (in her eyes anyway) on my 79 spitfire. I'm looking for something a bit diferent from the usual yank in London thing. Be nice to work in a vintage road race when there. Wife likes anything old (old castles, villages, pubs. So where do the brits go on vacation in the UK.

Any help would be appreciated. Please email me direct.

Ben Bacon
79 spit6 (Daily Driver)- still 100 percent triumph
Kansas City, USA
ben.bacon@crbusa.com
Ben BAcon

Dear Ben,
Hope you enjoy your UK holiday!
I‘ll blow the trumpet for my own region – the North West, especially Cumbria and the Lake District, the first UK National Park, 50 years old this year. Avoid the ‘honeypots’ of Bowness-on-Windermere or Wordsworth’s cottage, beautiful as they are.
Are you walkers? The best way to see Cumbria is to walk. Most of the fells are less than 2500ft high (Helvellyn is 3150) and all may be climbed in a day (and down again). That’s walking, not climbing, but care and preparation – walkers die here every year! Driving around the Lakes can be frustrating in high summer, but avoid the honeypots and you can enjoy the Lakes from a car.
What else? How old would you like?
The City of Lancaster is ancient, the Queen is our Duke (I’ll explain later) and we have the only real castle that is still a real prison with real prisoners! You can visit the less secure parts, especially the dungeons.
Kendal has a history of involvement in the Border Wars of the 15th and 16th Centuries, and a unique town structure – no walls but enclosed town blocks – as a result. It is the home of Kendal Mint Cake – standby of explorers to both Poles, Everest and country walks!
Carlisle – I could go on. But visit Hadrians Wall, built by the Romans to keep the Picts out, so well made that today you can patrol parts of it. Housesteads, halfway to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has a reconstructed Wall fort and Roman camp.
I suggest you look at the following websites:
www.lake-district.gov.uk
(Official Lake District National Park Authority site.)
www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk
(Published by the Westmorland Gazette of Kendal.)
www.lakedistrictwalks.co.uk
(A very personal guide to walking in the Lakes.)
Also see www.tssc.uk.com for UK Triumph events etc.
BUT, if she will let you attend a Triumph race meeting while you are here, see the TSSC website (later on) for the race programme for 2001.

John R Davies

This thread was discussed between 03/01/2001 and 07/01/2001

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