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do you know the sites visited by Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens have you heard of bug knuckling or gner green stay with me let's meet someone who actually got married there I'm toy what I enjoy the most about walking are the connections the knowledge sharing and the boosted gifts to your mental physical social and all around Health this walk around kenelworth Castle was with Simon whom I met at M church I love being outside enjoying nature connecting with people and often I find if you walk you connect better than just sat somewhere and if you're not in a pub or a club or whatever you can hear better I work at jel I've been to the p district Lake District C atanta for walks basically my favorite walk is the T walk and just walk around some food some bear along the I met Lecky through the African Caribbean Heritage Nigerian Network N I also work for Jr I love walking probably started doing it more so since lock down been to Lake District been big District I was with to last week in Scotland that was that was gorgeous and it was beautiful weather like we have today I met n through the women on tour organized by Rich Sab everyone calling me yeah like my Outdoors like walking uh I've been to a few walks around the country and outside the country Madera is beautiful for walk if you like to go that nice summer day for a walk I met Sabin through the emotional cultural and intelligence team so I love walking and I've covered most parts of the UK most counties Yorkshire Lake District Peak District used do a lot of mountain B in Peak District grew up starting to Sola walk in The Lakes Scotland cycle toward Su Scotland cycle toward Cumbria kayak in various places been to Scandinavia Denmark Norway walking kayak in there madira pen Portugal lanzerotti I actually like colder climates to walk in rather than the heat I like they're making my day by being hereit without further Ado let's get started the end here is the newest inside you can see a light bul cuz that was modernized and still have people3 and it's been redone out in the furniture of the 1930s and you can go around it we're not going in we're not paying but you can if you come back and visit it so that was reopened um probably 20 OD years ago 30 years ago now and my childhood was so they did it up and they returned it to the standards of the family that had it in face game to Heritage it's famous for particularly two mons Queen Elizabeth visiting it more than any other place of the C twice in the 1570s and the garden that's now there was returned to how it was in the 15th century so my childhood is to different and they literally ripped all out wed it to the original it was demolished as a castle what walk down into now would have been a great B there was a huge Lake right over the back of this all the way around it was a substantially protect site you can see these outer walls here and then you got the inner keep and the Lord West Tower that bit there and you'll see where the steps are that they' M the boats so the boats would literally be roded across here and people get out to get into the castle wow so that's Lord Leer's Tower and then this is the original castle with keeps did you know Ken Castle has a couple of spine tingling stories like the haunting of dudle star Dudley star also known as Lester's building is said to be haunted by the ghost of robot Dudley the ear of Lester who was a close friend of Queen Elizabeth I and spent much time at kenelworth Castle visitors have reported hearing footsteps Whispers And even glimpses of a shadowy figure in the T Legend has it that dly Spirit still roams the to pining for his Lost Love Queen Elizabeth the cries of mud m a seven girl met a tragic end at kenelworth Castle she fell in love with a knight who was killed during a jousting tournament heartbroken M threw herself from the tar and her anguished cries are said to echo through the castle on moonlet nights some visitors claim to have heard her weeping or felt a sudden chill near the tower there are many events that take place at kenelworth Castle the legendary just at kenelworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden is an accelerating spectacle where Four Knights representing a character from myth or Legend the Wy the wild man sir llot and Jason of the agono compete for honor and glory in a grand medieval joust in July from 10:00 a.m. to 500 p.m. you can also enjoy Medieval encampment dry archery watch falcona and enjoy the castle Jester it's usually every year oh wow which is awesome stalls and food stalls and music and lasers when is that it'll be the nearest Saturday to the 5th of November shop where Queen Elizabeth had some of her things and it was a massive forested PL shot off on the present which basically means pleasure in the French people and it was basically a remote site built by Henry the F so he can go and just get away from all the pressures and just chill out it was built with a spur of land protecting the view from the castle so the SP of land stuck out and then you couldn't see the pleasant so when you on it it was really quite remote Henry was the one that made multiple way wasn't it hry was one multip so this is three henries before that Henry the 5th is the one that had the famous battle of agic cour in France and other backles and reclaimed some of the land back for England from France because after the Norther Conquest there were sort of fluctuations of what was English and what was the French and you know they were constantly back in in plantag and Henry the fth was the warrior king the back English the te defeated the French troops and he started the big castle and that's that was huge lovely sorts of fish and Wild for the castle so you going to catch a fish and shoot wild F table walking up to this you see all the reads growing up where it's wet so all this was flooded right out they started to drain it it would have been a massive water there would have been duts geese and walk around it and there would have been fish so back in Meda and cheah times fish was a massive part of diet and with the Catholic influence you had very few days where you could eat meat right so they ate a lot of fish so we know of fish on Fridays but in Catholic culture there would have been fish many times a week so often the wealthy would build lakes or pools or ponds which is why so many big country houses got pools and ponds in them to have the fish to feed the people there's still the Little Brook going through when my dad was a boy he used to fish this book and I think actually caught trouting you wouldn't find that in it now and there's some CS in the background yeah you want me to interestingly the Castle's Rings gained widespread recognition more than a century after its condemnation in 1821 Walter Scott novel titled kenelworth brought renewed attention to this remarkable sight is engage about 6 % of working for are working parents and with the children on 18 we we can't pleas them then we got bit of trouble yeah I think they have this leave that's right six weeks which is really good from 2026 it will be so sa is going for the room M for the working par all the best thank you very much nice FL M the land around here P for a long time the Pleasants yeah what does it mean of pleasure pleasure the Pleasants I don't remember ever being this wet maybe that's signs of we're having these days yes it's a good history yeah it's a nice that's do try to get there before Sunrise so you get on sun and then Sun the list ring so you standing on the p and you look at coming off the see and then it rises up top up come back look it's really nice the cave has been used in a film The Poli to get married in Scotland have you heard of that's where s got married like in Old the days you eloped if you were not allowed to get married yeah and in Scotland you can get married I think at 16 whereas in England you can get married in 18 so you didn't have to have parents permission which is why you days you actually have to give a 28 days notice I made it for bus so inside it's got customized for a stes it's got a pocket when I get a pocket for Compass Knife Head torch M stes all that and top so cute it looks like a HB doesn't it every hole basically is punched with a stamping tool first yeah before I then s through it I've slowly increased my tool kit and my experience amazing talent well I love doing it and tal often when I'm sitting if I'm watching the telling I can be making things the knitting or and stuff at the same time I like to multitask when I can absolutely really really good walk there yeah absolutely recommend it it's open as well so beautiful and in that was a about take no one said we had a country house we used to I think it was about 60 some of the tering look like this so you better come of your walking boots cuz even my boots are wet right now lunch break so so cold because December and it was really windy day as well I've done a swim and one of the swims was actually you had to go underwater and like your chair felt like I had brain freeze at that moment and then you scared of like you're running over the field but because it was so windy and all the clothes are wet that was the first time in my life I thought I will drop out people didn't finish but we crossed the finishing line so I got in a car like literally put a heating on for about two hours I was sitting there like I warmed up and then shakes through I never experienced anything like that you literally swim through a b in you head in the b in particular for there's a place in Wales kland wed Wales they do a whole range of the use they famous M biking but they also do B and they do man horse bike so you race other horse or bike as well when I was living lington I was I was doing a British military Fitness oh it was like literally the best fitness I ever done it was brilliant it was really really good I was at like probably to F that time the nice Woodland be the Woodland lovely trees pine trees You' been to l i born in L do you say like a colder culture a bit more like a distant oh I'm very yeah Big M of you I tried to C for the first I was like wow that was amazing and then IED Chinese and I a lot of things I couldn't understand thought was disgusting yeah your parents decided to name you San yeah which is Gen I think there was some kind of film or something what my mom was watching and my dad wanted to call me Cindy and but uh my mom was years of was that only within your gender or was it mixed wrestling my little boy is a Harley Henry hanot yeah it's Triple H have you ever heard of wrestler Triple H beautiful dogs I love looking at those dumbells bars and the fitness k at home expensive find to my house I love it this as we approach and go through the trees you'll get a stunning view down to the castle and at different times of year you get different views when the sun's going down it's awesome that's why I brought you on this just with this bit was you ready up to doing another one you know before we lovely horses lovely Road Sweet very lovely view of the cast out of here into a boat live life as a traveler Once Upon a Time this place is the Hub of Life hear we're home the Sun comes out W off Comes The Sun we finished off with drinks and food at the queen and Castle a gastropub boasting stylish Interiors a beautiful dining and bar space as well as an out store Courtyard featuring a fantastic view of kenelworth Castle I had previously visited twice with Simon and Hilda a 93y old who puts us all to shame with her health and vigor the queen and Castle provides a welcoming atmosphere even to dogs they have varied menus from delicious three course meals to light bites and classic pub food catering to a variety of dining preferences for those craving British classics or Mediterranean inspired dishes and a selection of wines and Ales that perfectly compliment the tempting seasonal dishes L having crisy salad delicious NZ had the spiced carrots and coriander soup she couldn't taste the so the first thing I said to to is I've never tried Nigerian food like yeah just like oh I got to try it even after adding chili flakes but I still can't taste the CH chili p and chili Simon had the British steak and M big pie while his mom had the freshly buttered lime quats C cut and chips I tried pan fried wild scallops and the sea salt and pepper squids salad with this chunks of mango and do and W remember life can be a Bed of Roses full of thorns thorny Rosie it can be lonely at the top and misery does love company whatever you don't have to go e alone ask me how to join the walk and talk group find out more about nazza and my trip to Scotland 15 women on T if you haven't yet please subscribe like and follow for more content like this thank you