Craster Northumberland - Americans in England
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Join me as I return to the stunning fishing village of Craster, Northumberland. I love the vibe here... charming cottages along the sea, legit seafood shops and restaurants, beautiful views over the sea, fishing boats and gear, and a castle ruin on the far off hill. Come along with us for a quick recap of our 2024 visit!
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When you were in Craster it was freezing and chucking it down with rain here!
I'm sorry... we did have a bit of rain on a lot of our days up North... including my much awaited stop in OTTERburn! But thankfully we had a delightful sunny lunch and hike in Craster!
So beautiful. Thank you, Dara. And wow, you had great weather -- that blue sky just added to all the lovely views!!
We were very lucky that day! We had a bit of rain and cold on other days, so I'm thankful that day was so pretty!
Went on a school visit here, many many moons away, the Beatles were still together 😅, to young to realise or understand what I was looking at. Northumberland a real hidden gem 💎
I agree that Northumberland is a hidden gem! We enjoy taking a few dear friends here that we know are worthy of appreciating it. 💖
The Beatles first came to the US the year I was born. 🙃
What a lovely place, no wonder you had a terrific time there.... I would, haha... And postcard perfect weather too.
Many thanks for sharing your happy times with us.
Warm greetings from your new Danish friend....
Thomas
Hello Thomas! It is such a lovely place, and we were very lucky with the weather! Thanks so much for watching and subscribing. 💖 Cheers!
Dara
Lovely village, the UK has so many of these postcard perfect locations. The Jolly Fisherman's outdoor seating area looked so nice on a sunny day, I love being able to look out to sea or a coastal view. Don't like being on the water, I get seasick! But love been near it.
Same here! I get terrible motion sickness, and eating out on a boat does not sound fun! But I do love looking at the water and being near the sea 💖 🌊
Love Northumberland, it’s a gem.
Had my smoked chubs and mineral water ready, Dara! 🤣🤣Watching now.
You are so sweet, Dave. Thanks for joining us!!
This video has given me the warmest feeling of being home again, thanks!
Awwww that's the best compliment 👍💖
I am surprised that American fish don't have fingers. Ours were first bred with fingers in 1955 by the American Clarence Birdseye. Thank you for another lovely portrait of our country.
That is fascinating! I don't know why Fish fingers in the US are called fish sticks!
Beautiful area and lovely video, Dara and Ian. Loved coming along and think I would have enjoyed the crab sandwich. Was it like a crab cake? I love those if they're done well!
I didn't think the crab sandwich tasted like crab or crab cakes... I'm wondering if it was smoked? I really need a better seafood education! LOL
Wow look at those blue skies 👌🏻
Northumberland looks fantastic, oooh fish finger sandwiches are lovely. I think with crab you either love it or hate it, a bit like marmite 😂
A great walk with great views. And an amazing ruin at the end.
Thank you for taking us with you Dara & Ian. Looks looked amazing. X💕👌🏻take care both
Thanks Kim! I enjoyed hearing your perspective on crab 🦀😆
I remember that video and how I understood exactly the emotional reaction you were having. What an absolute joy to be able to return and share this beautiful place with loved ones!
Thanks so much, Rachel! 💖
Wot, crab...fishy? Never! Absolutely nothing to beat a fish finger sandwich with tartare sauce, especially with *those* views!
I would happily eat that fish finger sandwich with that view every Friday ... if I could be guaranteed that weather as well ;-)
@MagentaOtterTravels
The fishier fish and seafood tastes the less fresh it is. Also if it smells fishy it isn't fresh
Taken MY American guests there many times.....the smokery etc. Fancy having a week in one of those cottages - love the way the seabed is just rock. Mind you there are some odd little communities up there !
I think I missed the odd communities... Rob, you are more acquainted with the questionable side of Northumberland than I am ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels Only when trying to find "cheap" places to stay when Customers were staying in Castles etc!! There are some very run down industrial small towns right on the coast - quite sad really.
@@RobLittleuk oh yes, I know what you mean 😢
Northumberland still on my to do list. Remember fondly your previous visit. Craster is so charming. Can we have Kippers for breakfast? I don’t think we have them in Texas.. ha ha just had to sing that again, it’s a tune that Ian sang so well she has been singing all week! This is uncanny, I had a crab sandwich today and fish finger butties last night. This is bizarre. Cant beat a fish finger butty. Ian is not a fan of crabs! What a perfect day! ❤
Ian actually loves steamed king crab legs, but this whole crab sandwich business is another matter entirely!
I can't believe you had a crab sandwich and a fish finger butty! Tell me how they are different In Spain ...
A great day was had by everyone.
Yes indeed! 👍👍🙌🙌
Hi Dara and Ian. 'Happy Father's Day!"
What's the view! I often have opportunity to have meal by the sea at local restaurants and watch dolphins' play. But not Castle nor ruins like you had fabulous view through the ages. The UK offer full of history I admire in your films 2:07
This film is just right time for Father's Day.
Haha what? Crab sandwich is fishy? How fishy? Their meat is flaky, but how they made it fishier?? hahaha
I am glad you gave 10/10 on the fish sandwich. I have never had mushed pea, but like peas..
I like brioche buns, a little buttery sweetness.
Well done. Enjoy Father's Day, you all.
Ian is having a good Father's Day. He was able to talk on the phone with both of our sons. 🥰🥰
But we are not eating any fish for Father's Day dinner today! Lol
Thanks for watching, my friend!
Fish finger sandwich should be on thick white bread, spread with butter, with lashings of tomato ketchup 😋
Thank you for not calling it tomato sauce! Lol
I need to try your version of a Fish finger sandwich sometime, as I know that is the typical one. But I must confess that the posh version I ate was scrumptious!
Hi Dara, Ian, and friends! Oh yes, our British fish have fingers! 🖐😀 Interesting that your fish sandwich included mushy peas. I loved the idyllic location. Northumberland is on my list of British places I must see! Sadly, not on this trip. Thanks for giving us a glimpse of the gorgeous village of Craster. I want to go there even more now! 😍👍
I think mushy peas are more of a northern institution, right? So up in Craster, the fish finger sandwich has to have them 😉
You want to go to Northumberland, and I want to visit the Norfolk Broads ... one day we need to follow through on these wish lists!
If you 4 are going through Bamburgh via the Seahouses road, have a peep into the car park opposite the Castle, there's a food van there does freshly landed lobster wraps (as does the Fish Shack down on the beach at King Edward's Bay, Tynemouth, miss one, catch the other)
We had an ice cream from a van in that car park! But a lobster wrap does sound lush!
What a lovely place. Never heard of craster. Thanks for putting this on our map! Crab meat is gorgeous, love it! The fish finger sandwich Wills would love! Oo English heritage - we'd get in there free! Loved this Dara 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint Craster is defo a place you should go! And I know y'all think you aren't posh... but you would love that fishfinder sandwich! Yum!
That posh sandwich looks yummy! And great view.
I really enjoyed that view! And the sandwich. I was glad I had not ordered a crab sandwich as well 😉
Hope you enjoyed your Kippers, they are the best. Fancy a Crab being fishy who would have thought that coming from the sea
I know it seems ridiculous that I was surprised by the crab tasting fishy! But I think I got the wrong impression having mostly eaten Alaskan king crab legs and stone crab claws from Florida. The crab meat is extremely mild. Kind of like the difference between eating a fillet of cod versus a kipper!
Hiya. If I could've ordered the crab sandwich with just the white meat, I would've ordered it. I think the brown meat tastes absolutely disgusting and avoid it like the plague. Of course, I would've ordered the posh fish fingers one, as well. And now I'm thinking of those sandwiches AND a glass of chilled white wine - or cider. Thanks, Dara! Stay safe. All the best to you.
I'm learning a lot about crab sandwiches reading these comments. I think I'll avoid them in the future. But give me a posh fish finger sandwich any day! Enjoy your weekend, Andy!
Cannit beat a fish finger butty. Got to be captain birds eye fish fingers ,
And mush peas with it yummy good video dara. You stay safe 👍
Even though educated at Durham (back in the early 1970s) I never visited Northumberland (few students had cars in those days!): so this was a great video to watch. The taste of crab is strong: but I love it, as much as Ian. Dunstanburgh Castle is, obviously, more ruinous than Bamburgh. Perhaps David and I need to "follow the Americans", rather than go to Essex (which is our current plan).
@@Mark_Dyer1 well it might be a bit far to drive, but I highly recommend Northumberland!
Our Internet went down just as the sheep posed, and I was stuck with the circle of doom spinning around the sheep's head 😂
I really feel for you Wence.
Sorry about that! But it's kind of funny. That's the longest that sheep has looked at a camera I'm sure.
@@MagentaOtterTravels at first I thought you had done some clever editing, until the family started moaning about the Internet 🙄, silly old me 🤣
@@wencireone lol... nobody can abide the internet being down!
But bring on the cows to our cones!
Gotta love cow to cone! haha
Back in the late 1960s/early 1970s my Step Father knew the then owners of the L. Robson & Sons Smokery quite well and we used to visit occasionally.
If memory serves, back then they had 4 Royal Warrants: The Queen, The Queen Mother, The Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales.
Why they don't have them any more is something of a mystery to me. 🤔
Wow, that's amazing! Thanks for sharing that bit of background ;-)
I had fish fingers sandwich for tea yesterday, not like that though. Might have to try with brioche and tartar sauce. Mushy peas seems wrong but I have a tin in the cupboard so why not! Thanks for the show, never been there it looks nice. I have been to bamburgh and really enjoyed it. Actually a few weeks ago I went to Beeston castle, weather was nice and we went early to get there at opening time so it wasn't too busy.
Great to be at a castle on a pretty day without bad crowds! ☀️ 🏰
I thought the soft sweet brioche was a great combo with a bit of mushy peas and tartare sauce as condiments. If you try it, please report back 😉
Love the t-shirt Dara. I'd not want a crab sandwich- the crab meat isn't suitable for a sandwich ( my opinion) .The brioche bun looked yum. What a gorgeous castle-ruin. The walk there was lovely. Most enjoyable Dara. 🩷🇳🇱🙋♀🥝
Thanks, Anita! I've been so busy travelling I have not been on CZcams much lately. Trying to catch up a bit ;-)
I really did not understand what a crab sandwich was... I didn't like the first one and thought I'd try again because of all the hype around this one. But I think I'm done trying them now! haha
But the posh fish finger sandwich on the brioche was wonderful!
Great vid as always!
Cheers, mate!
I am with you on crab! I would much rather have prawns or lobster, or even your “posh” fish finger sandwich.
That posh fish finger sandwich was LUSH! I wish I could have one for dinner today!
Best crab sandwich I have had was in Cadgwith Cove, Cornwall, it was mainly white crab meat , not brown.
I'm learning a lot about crab sandwiches reading these comments. I think I'll avoid them in the future. But give me a posh fish finger sandwich any day!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I think brown crab meat has a stronger taste and is more paste like than white meat.
Keep the mushy peas away from fish fingers!
Maybe the fingers is what mushed them!
I'm with you on the crab sandwiches. Way too "fishy" for me and I can never seem to enjoy crab in any guise. Love tons of other fish types though. Another great video and lucky with the weather!
@@revbenf6870 thanks so much! Yes, the weather the last week has been not very summary! But I'm glad we had a pretty day for this walk to the castle ☀️
Hi Dara and Ian. Love your vids. I am originally from Newcastle, now living in France, and whenever I go home, the first thing I do is to head for Craster to do my walk to Dunstanburgh. It's my favourite castle in the whole world and the walk up to it is just so lovely. You leave the busy world behind you. As soon as they could my kids came along too. Many happy memories and photos from these trips. Glad you enjoyed it.
YES! You get it 😉💖
Just magical.
It's ok, the 47 days relates to me personally, something I mentioned before, but I know you wouldn't' have remembered that. I used to live in Pensacola, FL and I'm told my favourite store there 'Winn Dixie' has been bought by Aldi. OMG. I shop here mostly in Sainsbury's, or Waitrose. Organic stuff is best in Waitrose and when I'm in the London office M&S however, WD wins every time for me. I'm going back there in September. I look forward to your next video, and seeing your newbies to the UK in a few weeks. Awesome
These days I forget a LOT of things, sorry!
Grocery stores keep merging like crazy... in the US it seems like there are only 2 overall companies besides Walmart!
I love M&S salads... I have had one yesterday and today because I did a wee road trip to Surrey ;-) Waitrose is lovely, I like their stuff more than Sainsburys.
I can see there have already been a few comments about crab sandwiches Dara so I won't labour the point. However a good crab sandwich should be mostly white crab meat with just a trace of brown to add texture. A mostly brown crab sandwich is going to be too bitter and "fishy" as you say. Also the brown crab meat is the cheap stuff from the main shell, the white is the good stuff from the legs. The video is lovely and shows a part of the country I've only ever been to once in my 6 decades.
I highly recommend a visit to this part of Northumberland! It is such a treasure.
As for crab, I think I'm going to stick to eating it on its own. Alaskan king crab legs are fantastic. Stone crab claws are also very delicious. But once you start mixing things together in a sandwich ... not so tasty, in my opinion! I'm sticking to fishfinger sandwiches from now on 😉
Are you going to Lindisfarne? Try the honey mead😋
Sorry to disappoint you, but we don't drink alcohol, so we can't report that we've had mead. But we did really enjoy our Lindisfarne visit from last year. Here's the vid: czcams.com/video/1u4JTryX_LA/video.html
The thing about crab is the more fishy it smells and tastes means its fresh crab...most people who have tried crab are with those awful crab sticks that only have about 20% crab in them ...however that fish finger sandwich looks so good...my definite favourite ❤😋
I think my problem is that I'm used to Alaskan king crab legs which have a very mild flavour to them... it's like the difference between eating cod versus eating rainbow trout. They are both fish, but taste very different! I think I need to steer away from those crab sandwiches in the future. But I would eat another one of those fish finger sandwiches in a heartbeat! So delicious!
@MagentaOtterTravels ...oh gosh yes...I love King Crab legs.. I was fed on them by my cousins when visiting them in Olympia WA ...gorgeous taste...😋🥰
@@glastonbury4304 yes, very mild and delicious dipped in melted butter!
@MagentaOtterTravels ...back in the 80's you could pick up one leg for one dollar...😋😋😋
Cake with a fish filling…..give me a stotty please…
I finally had a stottie!!! When we visited Alnwick Castle! I will do a vlog of that one day... probably in 2026...
The Stotty report..we can slot that into the election results on the 4th of July…I’ll speak to Lord Grade and see if we can get you on prime time first…We will need Rishi’s opinion on the Stotty before he settles in Palm Springs,it’ll blow the nations socks off…
Crab sandwich ❤❤❤❤!! Making me hungry...Was it smoked ??
Now that is an excellent question! I never considered that it might be smoked!!! Maybe that's why it tasted "fishy" to me ;-)
I love seafood but I have never got on with crab or squid
I think I've concluded that I don't like all crab meat... I am good with steamed king crab legs or stone crab legs. But I don't like the brown crab meat. And soft shelled crab is a firm NO for me ;-)
Gish it's expensive sandwiches. Welcome back. Are you going to come to see us in York?
This summer is full of a million different little trips, and our plans are constantly changing! We actually did a quick tour through the Yorkshire Dales a couple weeks ago, but it was very fast! Yesterday we had an abrupt change of plans, and now we will be coming back to Yorkshire for a few days in July! I would love to make it to York and see the Minster, but we probably won't have time for that this year. We are always just trying to fit in what we can 😉
I'm a Guide at York Minster, so when you are ready for a visit let me know
@@cathnaylor2105 fantastic! I would love to have you give me a tour sometime! Can you please send me an email? That's the only way I can keep track of remembering how to contact you. Cheers! magentaotter@gmail.com
@@cathnaylor2105 ha! I just figured out that you are Ian's mum!! 💖
We would love to have you take us around the minster sometime!
Why oh why is everything on brioche these days? Some of us don't like sweet bread 😢 Northumberland has my heart, although Yorkshire is not far behind.
Yes, Yorkshire is beautiful as well! We briefly visited the Dales on this trip, but we plan to head back next month.
Fish burger
Have you tried a national trust membership pass. It's good value if you travel to their places ?
Oh yes, we buy an annual pass every year! We love it! We also buy a historic houses pass. Between the two, we find we can get in most places for free... what are some of your favorite national trust properties?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Personally historic buildings are not for me, but the grounds i love. Osbourne House on the Isle of White.
Hi Dara, I loved this video, but I want to moan at you please, thanks so much 😞5m 30s only?! Hello? I look forward to your Friday video, but such a short one OMG 5:30...., we need to have words about this travesty😅. And not even Ian singing to lighten my mood😅At least it's Friday and only 47 days to go!!!
47 days until what?
I know... this is a tiny video... but I have been so busy running my mates around Britain playing tour guide, I have had NO time to edit videos!
I do have another short video done tasting Grasmere Gingerbread... and then I will do a nice long video! My ALDI video comparing US and UK ALDI food shopping. I'm currently editing that video and it is a beast! I need to get it finished before my dear friend arrives on Monday. It's her first visit to the UK! Woot!
You may have been given dressed crab rather than the white meat .
@@peteredwards338 I think you are right! In the future, I'm sticking with the fish fingers sandwiches or fish & chips 😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels Hope you can visit Beadnall,Seahouses and Bamborough sometime,if you haven't already, spent my childhood holidays in those villages, happy days 😁
@@peteredwards338 I don't know the first place, but have definitely been to the others! I hope you watch my video of the puffin tour we went on from Seahouses. I've also done videos about Bamburgh castle and holy Island. If you can't find them, I'm happy to send you links...
While you’re feeling awesome, have you thought about khaki otter travels? That is, travelling around in really dowdy clothes, say ? Just a thought. Kipper sandwiches are really yummy. Yuk.
My trousers are khaki
@@MagentaOtterTravelsMore effort needed though,ie, complete military fatigues 😎
@@MrGyges oh no, I cannot wear military green! It looks horrible with my skin tone 😆
@@MagentaOtterTravels Tut ! Change your skin then. Simples.
....a picture of ewe and your family...?
Haha, exactly!
Fantastic channel. I subscribed, so we can hopefully meet again. 🙂