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British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast
- retrac98 3y agoIsn’t Lakeland a shop?
- gambiting 3y agoI was going to say - Lakeland to me as a Brit is a store, lake district sounds way more proper.
- retrac98 3y agoLakeland makes it sound like a theme park!
- OJFord 3y agoThat took me a minute - it's pronounced 'lake-lund' (as in French lundi), which doesn't sound so theme-parky!
- laurencerowe 3y agoFor us the shorthand term was always 'The Lakes'. I never really heard anyone use the term Lakeland, though there is a South Lakeland District Council so maybe some people do.
- noneeeed 3y agoI've definitely heard people refer to Lakeland the place. But it's unusual, mostly people seem to just refer to it as "the lakes".
- tomcart 3y agoLakeland is how wainwright referred to the area in his guides, which is probably the main reason the author is using it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorial_Guide_to_the_Lakeland_Fells https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorial_Guide_to_the_Lakel...
- jstanley 3y agoVery enjoyable writing, though I must admit I never understood putting crisps in your sandwiches.
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoIt requires butter. A lot of butter. It's not a French delicacy but it still requires it. The butter complements the dryness and crunch of the crisps. The bread protects the mouth. One of the biggest risks to scoffing down a bag of chips is that it scratches and scrapes your mouth. So butter to complement the dryness and crunch and bread to soften the blow. It makes perfect sense.
- jen729w 3y agoWell if we’re on the front page of HN discussing sandwiches, bring it on. 1. Toast one side only of two slices of fresh white bread. 2. Construct a sandwich with the untoasted sides facing out. 3. Inside the sandwich place mushed banana and a sprinkle of sugar. As you bite through you get soft, crunch, soft, crunch, soft. It’s a thing of beauty. Another weird combo is crispy bacon and marmalade. In regular toasted bread. Ah, sandwiches. One of the great foods. Source: I’m from the North East.
- sg47 3y agoYou need good bread for that. Store-bought bread in the US is quite bad.
- Kon-Peki 3y agoMy local Walmart has about 100 different breads in the bread section - too much for a single aisle. Even the Aldi, known for having just a single option for everything, has about 15 different breads. I'm sorry if your options are bad, but don't claim that the entire US sucks.
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- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoI also love Lakeland, but that's because I love browsing kitchen things.
- lebski88 3y agoI do think they're right that the footpaths and rights of way are underappreciated here. Whilst I would appreciate a proper right to roam, it would be more about being able to legally wild camp. In terms of actually getting to places there aren't that many interesting places that aren't already accessible. There's barely a field around my house that isn't crossed by a footpath. There are a loads of fantastic long walks to take on. Personally I'd recommend the south west coastal path. In particular the wilder Exmoor section, although there's barely a dull moment over the whole 1000km. There is definitely something incredibly mindful and calming about just spending time walking.
- meheleventyone 3y agoScotland is great for that with the right to roam also extending to wild camping. One of my best memories is wild camping the West Highland Way.
- buggeryorkshire 3y agoDid that a couple of months ago, was amazing! Apart from the midges..
- meheleventyone 3y agoOne night we camped in a really wet grassy field and had to run back and forth from the midges to get set up. By the time we were done and in the tent there were at least as many midges inside the tent as outside. It was the only time we gave up, abandoned the tent and went to find somewhere else to sleep. Otherwise we were pretty lucky! 15 or more years ago now though!
- buggeryorkshire 3y agoIt was ridiculously bad, even worse with having a dog who brought them in the tent through no fault of her own. Love the place, but Bill Gates needs to spend his money to sort them out.
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- Zee38484 3y ago> I got more daring with my sandwich orders. I think author slept at some cottage every night. Taking sandwiches on through hike without resuply does not seem very practical.. I did wild camping in Scotland long time ago, but I would not recommend it today. Locals are not so welcoming now.
- pmyteh 3y agoIt's quite normal to stay in pubs and B&Bs doing the Coast to Coast - that's how my wife and I did it for our honeymoon. Wild camping is not lawful on any(?) part of the route, and organised camp sites are relatively scarce for most of it. Plus it's a pretty unusual through hike. It goes through three national parks, but it's nowhere wilderness and you're never more than about 10 route miles from a village. Resupply en route is fairly trivial.
- OJFord 3y agoGlobally unusual do you mean? I can't imagine where in England that would not be true.
- pmyteh 3y agoYeah, globally. Most long distance hikes seem to be a few hundred miles of mostly majestic wilderness, while the C2C is an unusually lovely and varied walk strung together from local footpaths...
- OJFord 3y agoIt's a small and densely populated country. Twice the population of Canada over a fourtieth of the area. Scotland has a places a bit more like 'majestic wilderness', so that goes even more so for England. If you want a pub walk though, no better place in the world!
- actionfromafar 3y agoMy thought when I saw the pictures: they really know how to make digital pictures look as nice as film these days...
- resolutebat 3y agoThe photos in the article were taken with a film Hasselblad.
- actionfromafar 3y agoYes, that was my point. :-)
- irrational 3y agoWhere the hell are the pictures of Ella?
- progre 3y agoElla is probably too fast for the Hasselblad
- orixilus 3y agoThe Slowways[0] project is a great resource on UK's walking routes [0] https://beta.slowways.org/ https://beta.slowways.org/
- zeristor 3y ago“But I am not British, …” ! That just sounds like gibberish.
- noneeeed 3y agoThis made me chuckle: "And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment." Been there, done that, got the blisters. Totally worth it looking back, got me into walkin, but not sure I understood it at the time.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoIs walkin' the british slang for hiking?
- RamblingCTO 3y agoWhy are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
- sw104 3y agoDon't know why you're being downvoted. Walkin' isn't really slang but most people use walking/hiking interchangeably. Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogging'.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoOkay got it, so it's not like hiking is more in a hilly area (but I would guess more probably because it's more serious) or something. I also wondered if when you use walking you wouldn't use hiking. Thanks!
- qingcharles 3y agoAs a Britisher I generally using hiking more when it is a slog; that is to say, when there are more hills or countryside involved.
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- deergomoo 3y agoI tremendously enjoy Craig Mod's writing. I like to save up a few dozen of his newsletters and then spend a couple of hours reading them back-to-back, especially his huge walks in Japan. I find it very transportive, like I'm there with him despite having never been. I'm from the UK though, so this is also very cool!
- tuatoru 3y agoIn Branston Pickle, the third word, "Relish", is silent. So silent that it is omitted from the label.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoLidl sells 'Batts' pickle, which is a little less sweet than Branston is, and has perhaps slightly more vinegar. I much prefer it to the 'real' Branston pickle. Tesco own-brand was the worst last time I tried it*. * their recipe is probably: "1. Dump bag of sugar in bottle of vinegar. Veg? Haha, we don't use expensive vegetables here, every little counts you know!"
- mikhailfranco 3y agoI prefer the old Pan Yan Pickle, but it went out of production more then 20 years ago. It has more fruit (apples, sultanas) and a Madras-style curry sauce. So more like a chutney than a pickle or a relish (i.e. Indian origin or influence).
- RistrettoMike 3y agoAlways glad to see Craig Mod come up here.
- tragomaskhalos 3y agoIn Larry Niven's 'Ringworld' the explorers are always eating 'hand meals': for the longest time I resisted the obvious interpretation and imagined some unfathomable futuristic repast, but let's be honest - they're sandwiches aren't they.
- jpsouth 3y agoCould also be a pasty! A British meal of basically <whatever you want> (typically meal and vegetables) wrapped in pastry, supposedly created so farm workers didn’t lose half their sandwiches when eating it.
- tragomaskhalos 3y agoHa, indeed! To test this theory, next time I re-read the book I'm going to imagine Louis Wu speaking in a West Country accent throughout :)
- user_named 3y agoAlways impressed how this person continues to write about nothing, capturing photos of nothing. Requires a special type of intellect.
- jasonm23 3y agoIf you were looking for sandwhiches... you will be disappointed.
- mikhailfranco 3y agoWord of the Day - pentimento.
- zelos 3y agoFantastic writing. My parents did this walk in their twenties (twenty?) and I've always wanted to do it.
- spants 3y agoThe bread in the UK is very different to the long life bread in USA.