Hey, guy. Welcome back to the Girl Guy.
London Channel. If you're new here, my name is Kalyn.
I'm an American who's lived in the UK for almost ten years.
And today we are going camping in the Lake District.
And by we are going camping in the Lake District.
I mean, we're currently camping in the Lake District.
So I am going to show you all of our
camping set up, talk about the Lake District and how
beautiful it is, and let you come along with what we get up to.
Okay.
So I'm currently filming from inside our tent.
This is actually the first time
that either my husband or I have gone, like, real camping as adult.
So I used to go camping as a kid at Disney World.
For the most part, I swear, there's real campground.
He says it doesn't count, but we slept in a tent and it was definitely camping.
But this is the first time time that we've really done it together.
So we have a tent that we got years ago for some wedding that we went to.
That was like in a field.
And the point was to camp,
but it was for one night and we didn't bring that much with us.
So we decided that, like, good British, almost British people,
we would get out and explore the Lake District this summer.
If you're not familiar
with the Lake District, it is one of my favorite parts of England,
arguably one of the most beautiful Taylor Swift included in a song somewhere.
And it's just a really beautiful getaway.
So we have lots of plans for our adventure, but we also kind of decided
to go camping because we were trying to save money.
And we thought, oh, £30 a night. Fine.
Three nights, £90 easy.
So we spent £90 on the camping tent pitch.
Clearly, I'm not a camper yet on the camping pitch.
And we proceeded to spend probably, like,
six times that amount on camping equipment.
So I feel like I should show you exactly what our set up is.
So this is the bedroom.
So we've got some camping roll maps.
I argued to bring our actual pillows from home.
My husband wants to bring his camping pillow, but it wasn't very comfortable.
And I was like, we have a car and we can bring a real pillow.
So let's do that. So this is a bedroom,
then if you come along and follow me out
here, of course we have a standing tent, because how can you not?
So we've got some shoes down there.
We've got let's see if you can see a solar panel down there.
Yes.
A solar panel that my husband wanted to make sure that I showed you because
he's super excited about the solar panel that will charge
basically most of your electronics, your phone in the direct sunlight.
So today it's been funny and it worked.
Well, it's supposed to rain the next couple of days.
So I'm not sure how useful a solar panel
is going to prove in a British camping summer.
But there we have it.
Now, over here, we've got Dorge units because again, we're not glamping.
This is like a real tent, but we've brought some luxuries from home.
So these are our food set up over here.
We have some camping stoves that we didn't
really know how to use until we just tried.
And we're hoping that we didn't blow anything up so far.
So good.
We've got a jug of water and a cooler down here and we've got our clothes over here.
If I take you outside,
you can see our outside set up so you can see some of our neighbors.
And we've got some camping chairs right there.
Now we've got a couple things already lined up for our trip.
So tomorrow we're doing something called Gorge scrambling.
I had never heard of this before moving to the UK, but basically you put on a wet
suit and you have an instructor with you and you are scrambling or like,
I mean, walking, slash swimming, I think, up a river as opposed to down it.
I actually think we might be going down
to the one tomorrow, but that's kind of unusual.
And like, the rocks have been
naturally turned over time into, like, cool little, like slides and shoots.
I don't know exactly what to expect.
What, we're going to try and get some footage on the waterproof camera.
We've also decided to go paddleboarding for the first time.
So that could be very interesting
for those of you who know the Lake District or are interested in the area.
We are staying at a place called Camp Eden, which we believe is a seasonal
kind of pop up camping area in the grounds of Lother Castle.
And it's the closest Lake I believe is old water.
So we're kind of on the upper north. Let me do that.
Never eat. Soggy waffles thing in my head.
North east part of the Lake district.
So technically, I think we're not actually in the Lake District, but we're really,
really close, like, right on the outskirts.
And there was hardly anything available
when we went to book camping, because clearly everybody is staying
in the country this summer and doing what people call staycations.
Now, technically, a stay cation is really
when you actually stay in your house, I feel like.
But here people use it to mean that they
stay in the UK, which a lot of people are doing this summer.
So tons of places were completely booked up.
We were really lucky to even find a camping spot here.
So really excited for the rest of our trip.
And I'll definitely take you along with us as much as possible.
So I'll see you in the next clip.
So we've just taken a little walk on the campgrounds because we thought
that it was we knew that there was a Castle involved, but there was no Castle
when we turned up into where actually camping and we walked just a short
distance and literally have found a Castle loafer Castle
as well as some food stuff going on down there.
Basically, we've chosen to camp in the grounds of a Castle that looks like.
I mean, it looks like we're straight out of a movie.
So this is a true English camping experience.
I really don't know where else you can get this kind of camping experience.
I definitely have never camped in the grounds of the Castle.
So come with me and we'll check out what's on down the way.
Okay, so we've made it to the bottom and actually found the Castle.
I was not expecting to find a Castle in the Lake district.
We've been here quite a few times now and have never actually been here.
So this is really cool discovery.
And I just wanted to take a second
and mention for all of my international visitors,
finding castles in England is something that I feel like I've started to take
for granted because it's pretty easy to find a Castle nearby.
We really in the US obviously have no medieval castles or anything.
I feel like we may have some purpose built castles if you've ever been
to the Magic Kingdom Cinderella's Castle, but it's not the same.
So definitely when you plan a trip to England or to elsewhere in the UK,
definitely make sure to pick some castles to cross Astralis because truly you can.
Just like we were just camping
in the Leg District at the the last place that we could find available.
And here we are in the ground of a Castle.
So for today's question, my question to you is,
what is your favorite Castle in the UK if you are from the UK and if you're not,
what Castle in the UK would you most like to visit?
So leave your answers down below.
Welcome to the first time I've ever washed dishes at a campsite.
I have this lovely pop up
sink here, a jug of water, some dirty dishes, soap, all the stuff.
Unfortunately, I can't wash dishes the way
I would like to as an American with just, like, constantly running water
that my husband thinks is wasteful, as do every Brit I talked to.
I'm going to have to do it the British way
of washing them in the sink with some soap.
So
now, okay, I don't have anything to rinse it.
I'm not going to rinse it off.
We're just going to again do the British thing of leaving soap on the dishes.
Don't come for me. That was a joke.
Try that at.
Oh, no, it's still got stuff in it.
First campground utensil washed,
and now you can just get me doing the rest and I'll speed it up.
Good morning from a very slave deprived camper.
We actually go about 06:00 a.m. This morning
because we have booked into a Gorge Grambling which I have never done before.
I don't actually think we're gonna get
footage like I may have promised earlier in the video, because you're not suppose
to quick cameras because most people just lose them in the water.
But I will put some pictures in here of what forge scrambling looks like.
So I'm really excited for that adventure.
So I'll show you some of the footage
of the beautiful beater, and I'll see you in a little bit.
Okay.
Update, we didn't get to take you along
on our Gorge scrambling because they said you will probably lose your camera.
So I did get some pictures.
They took some pictures along the way.
So hopefully I will have those to insert
to show you some of the most fun I've had in the UK in a long, long time.
Basically, we were in a stream that had
lots of different pools of water, and I think scrambling is often going up.
So technically, this was considered canyoning, which is going down.
I'm new to all this terminology,
but we were actually going down a river through lots of natural slides.
It was really, really fun.
The weather worked out perfectly.
They gave us wetsuits, so we were only slightly frozen to the core.
So that was a lot of fun.
And now we're back at the campsite and showered.
I'm doing a very British thing,
which is making a cup of tea on our campfire stove.
Okay, so here's an update for you.
We are doing a boat ride on old water with the old water Steamers.
Very esteemed boat ride. Get it.
And it is pouring down rain, which is basically hey there,
which is basically true British summer vacation experience.
So it's been raining since yesterday evening.
It rained a ton throughout the night.
Definitely woke me up in the and we got up, made breakfast, and here we are.
So I think we're just about to take off now, but you can see a bunch of, like,
soggy looking people trying to make the most of their summer holidays in the UK.
So just take in that puddle of water.
And this is the most authentic Lake district summer experience I've ever had.
So I.