Transport - Look With New Eyes https://www.lookwithneweyes.com Stories and travel guides from the Lake District Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:40:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-lwne-logo-black-rgb-861px@72ppi-32x32.jpg Transport - Look With New Eyes https://www.lookwithneweyes.com 32 32 127582044 A complete guide to exploring Ullswater by ‘Steamer’ boat (2025) https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-complete-guide-to-exploring-ullswater-by-steamer-boat/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-complete-guide-to-exploring-ullswater-by-steamer-boat/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:52:59 +0000 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=8260 Set amongst the towering eastern hills of the Lake District, Ullswater has a mystic, fjord-like quality. The second-largest lake in the national park is also one of my personal favourites. It is well worth spending a day or two in the region, and using the Ullswater Steamers is a straightforward way to explore the area […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/a-complete-guide-to-exploring-ullswater-by-steamer-boat/feed/ 0 8260 Visiting Claife Viewing Platform from Bowness via the Windermere Chain Ferry  https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/visiting-claife-viewing-platform-from-bowness-via-the-windermere-chain-ferry/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/visiting-claife-viewing-platform-from-bowness-via-the-windermere-chain-ferry/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:12:19 +0000 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=8190 Looking for easy and cheap things to do around Bowness in the Lake District?  Visiting the Claife View Platform using the Windermere Chain Ferry is a great value morning or afternoon activity that can be extended to a full-day trip to explore the western shore of Windermere, Wray Castle, or Hilltop, home of Beatrix Potter. […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/visiting-claife-viewing-platform-from-bowness-via-the-windermere-chain-ferry/feed/ 0 8190 Top Deck: How to see the Lake District by open top bus https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/top-deck-how-to-see-the-lake-district-by-open-top-bus/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/top-deck-how-to-see-the-lake-district-by-open-top-bus/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:55:25 +0000 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=6941 An open top bus journey is an activity you are more likely to expect in a seaside town rather than a mountainous national park. It is a great way to see the scenery if you don’t want to do a big walk or you have kids in tow and are looking for fun, unusual (fairly […]

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]]> https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/top-deck-how-to-see-the-lake-district-by-open-top-bus/feed/ 0 6941 Seeing with new eyes: A spontaneous road trip around the Lake District https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/seeing-with-new-eyes-a-spontaneous-road-trip-around-the-lake-district/ https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/seeing-with-new-eyes-a-spontaneous-road-trip-around-the-lake-district/#comments Wed, 27 May 2020 16:13:41 +0000 https://www.lookwithneweyes.com/?p=5288 After leaving the Hawkshead valley only once during being on lockdown at the hostel, I was beginning to feel frustrated and restless. At the end of April I also sustained a knee injury from running which rendered my usual adventures to shuffles around the hostel grounds. I missed going to find a random tarn or […]

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