Things to do in Carlisle?

dorsetmiss_2

Thanks to the £15 Travelodge offer we will be staying in Carlisle from 1st to 3rd April. Have visited The Lakes many times but never been to Carlisle before. Any insider ideas as to things to do/places to go please. (Two adults with use of car) We love walking, musuems, galleries and just generally pootling about. Ideas for places to eat out would be especially appreciated. many thanks

mattogier

:eek: Leave ASAP :eek:
(Sorry couldn't resist that :rotfl:)

dorsetmiss_2

mattogier wrote:

:eek: Leave ASAP :eek:
(Sorry couldn't resist that :rotfl:)

Yikes!! Is it as bad as that??????

mattogier

dorsetmiss wrote:

Yikes!! Is it as bad as that??????

I have no idea - I just couln't resist it - I have only been through carlisle - I am sure it's a great place, it looks nice...

http://www.aboutbritain.com/towns/carlisle.asp

Have fun.

Sam_Bee

dorsetmiss wrote:

Yikes!! Is it as bad as that??????

I'm from Carlisle (a long long time ago!). As stolen from The Idler - http://idler.co.uk/crap/?page_id=46


Carlisle

Famed for its uninspiring castle / barracks and for one dismal season in Division One, Carlisle strives to be holiday destination. However its only purpose is as somewhere to stop for the night on the way to somewhere better such as the Lakes or Scotland.

The skid-mark that is Penrith is referred to as “the town” despite being smaller than Carlisle. Geordies (over 60 miles away) are hated for their urbanite sophistication (no really) and people from Workington are just hated. All of which comes to ahead on a Saturday in Botchergate the main drag which consists of a strip of time warp night-clubs where disco hasn’t been revived, it just arrived. The lads go to the bar to get !!!! faced whilst the women dance around their handbags looking vacant. Occasionally a fight breaks out in the street between outsiders from the nuclear blighted coastal towns and the Carlisle inbreds or over the merits of various tractors.
At the end of the night the men return to grasp the women and lead them by the !!!! to the dance floor for the last slow number of the night. Here they dribble Carlsberg Special down the girls ear whilst attempting to dry hump them. After which they all lower the population by driving home.

Carlisle is serviced by Border Television a franchise that in the last bidding war nobody bothered bidding for.

Just as most towns were rethinking their Arndale centres Carlisle was building theirs. The marketing manager for the new leisure centre was boasting that his ambition was to have “the Three Degrees with Prince Charles in the front watching” clearly forgetting that Price Charles is a townie and the Three Degrees are not the Wurzels. At the station when I left were two swivel eyed kids playing banjos.

Harvey Edgington
Snail

dorsetmiss_2

Sam_Bee wrote:

I'm from Carlisle (a long long time ago!). As stolen from The Idler - http://idler.co.uk/crap/?page_id=46


Carlisle

Famed for its uninspiring castle / barracks and for one dismal season in Division One, Carlisle strives to be holiday destination. However its only purpose is as somewhere to stop for the night on the way to somewhere better such as the Lakes or Scotland.

The skid-mark that is Penrith is referred to as “the town” despite being smaller than Carlisle. Geordies (over 60 miles away) are hated for their urbanite sophistication (no really) and people from Workington are just hated. All of which comes to ahead on a Saturday in Botchergate the main drag which consists of a strip of time warp night-clubs where disco hasn’t been revived, it just arrived. The lads go to the bar to get !!!! faced whilst the women dance around their handbags looking vacant. Occasionally a fight breaks out in the street between outsiders from the nuclear blighted coastal towns and the Carlisle inbreds or over the merits of various tractors.
At the end of the night the men return to grasp the women and lead them by the !!!! to the dance floor for the last slow number of the night. Here they dribble Carlsberg Special down the girls ear whilst attempting to dry hump them. After which they all lower the population by driving home.

Carlisle is serviced by Border Television a franchise that in the last bidding war nobody bothered bidding for.

Just as most towns were rethinking their Arndale centres Carlisle was building theirs. The marketing manager for the new leisure centre was boasting that his ambition was to have “the Three Degrees with Prince Charles in the front watching” clearly forgetting that Price Charles is a townie and the Three Degrees are not the Wurzels. At the station when I left were two swivel eyed kids playing banjos.

Harvey Edgington
Snail

Ooooh noooo! It seemed such a good idea at the time too

Optimist

dorsetmiss wrote:

Thanks to the £15 Travelodge offer we will be staying in Carlisle from 1st to 3rd April. Have visited The Lakes many times but never been to Carlisle before. Any insider ideas as to things to do/places to go please. (Two adults with use of car) We love walking, musuems, galleries and just generally pootling about. Ideas for places to eat out would be especially appreciated. many thanks

Well if you like walking Hadrians wall isnt far There is also the Settle to Carlisle railway which goes through some lovely country errr that's it cant think of anything else......

mattogier

mattogier wrote:

:eek: Leave ASAP :eek:
(Sorry couldn't resist that :rotfl:)

Maybe I was right - 6ixth sense and all that - my gr8gran was a witch (or so I am told) and I did get a pain in my thumb once and said to my (now ex) wife "I have pulled a muscle or somone has died" - that was the night my grandad died! :eek:

Optimist

mattogier wrote:

Maybe I was right - 6ixth sense and all that - my gr8gran was a witch (or so I am told) and I did get a pain in my thumb once and said to my (now ex) wife "I have pulled a muscle or somone has died" - that was the night my grandad died! :eek:

eerie, You don't happen to know the winning lottery numbers for this Saturday do you ?

altyfc

See http://www.ukattraction.com/cumbria+lake-district/carlisle.html for some of the main attractions in the city. Of course, you're not far from the Lake District, also, and places such as Rheged near Penrith.

roswell

If your going by car with sat nav it wont find the hotel :-)

Dont order stake from the pub across from the travl lodge unless you want it still breathing,

Its a good location to go into the lakes and actualy ok once you get there, if you go for a walk round the town stay away from the train station its not very nice and seems to attract druggies.