JOIN US for a walk around the sights of DUMFRIES - VANLIFE SCOTLAND
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 เม.ย. 2024
- Join us, Carol & Ken, on our first ever trip in our new Consort Nova Motorhome called Snoopy, as we continue to get used to driving and living in a larger van.
In this video, we visit Caerlaverock Castle and see how it was transformed into a stately home in the 1600’s. Then we head to Dumfries and get swept up in the commemoration of the murder of Red Comyn, 718 years ago to the day, and visit sites in the historic market town with connections to the poet, Robert Burns.
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Welcome to our channel! We're Carol and Ken, retired professionals turned van life enthusiasts. We share our adventures across the UK and Europe in our camper van, which we have just upgraded to a slightly larger model.
Our goal is to provide a relaxing, honest account of van life, with no scripted drama - just the real, day-to-day experiences of our travels. Many of our viewers find our content calming, and we hope you will too.
We're passionate about wild camping and love to share our knowledge and tips, from staying cool in the van to choosing the right toilet. We're always learning and look forward to sharing our campervanning experiences with you.
While we love the freedom of wild camping, we also enjoy supporting local businesses by indulging in delicious local food. Expect to see plenty of one-pan meals and restaurant visits in our videos.
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This episode was filmed 9th & 10th February 2024.
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Hi everyone I just wanted to clarify that i loved the response from the Scots gentleman to my mention of youtube 😁👍. We met him several times during the day and got chatting and he was very helpful. I included the shot because his uninterested response makes me laugh 😁👍
You could tell that the man was Scottish just by hearing him say “I” …made me laugh.
@@Barbara-yj5tl You mean ''Aye'' lol
@@munro12 Aye, I do! 👍🏼
Fantastic video guys just what I needed to unwind from a manic shift that tower looks scary there’s an old lighthouse in Île de Ré you can go up to the top it gave me vertigo needless to say I wasn’t up there very long but that’s another great reason to visit Île de Ré 😉 hope your well guys and thanks again for chilling me out with a relaxing video and some history lessons 😊
@@Liamf986 thanks for watching. We definitely need to visit Île de Ré one day 🙂👍
It’s channels like yours that makes me more than happy I don’t have a TV Licence anymore! Natural, relaxed, honest - and all delivered via some tremendous production values. No need for Michael Portillo or a crew of camera operators, sound engineers, researchers, editors, producers. Just Ken and Carol being themselves. It’s a magic formula! Thank you both.
What a lovely comment ❤️
My grandmother grew up in Dumfries before emigrating to Australia in her late teens 😃
Carol and Ken, wow !! I am quite moved after watching, i used to live in Dumfries, i was there by chance one day and i met a girl in a bar which you captured on camera. (The Globe) I ended up moving there to be with her and lived on a St which you also managed to capture on camera. Brought back memories !! My best friend who lived in Dumfries recently passed away and it made me feel emotional whilst watching your video. Thanks for the video and hope you enjoyed your time there. Paul.
Hi Paul. Sorry to hear about your best friend. Glad we could bring back some happy memories for you. We loved our time in Dumfries ❤️
@@LifeistooshortCK ❤
Hello fellow Doonhamer, another exiled one living now in Yorkshire. Remembering meeting our neighbours papa at the suspension bridge to pinch some of his peppermint sweets.
@@Foggy2912 great memories ❤️
You are brave up those castle steps 😅 Lovely drone footage, we’ve skirted round Dumfries many times but never actually stopped for a look, so thank you 🙏 Em 💜
Well worth a visit if you are passing 🙂👍
Thanks Carol n Ken..one of the most relaxing channels on you tube.
You’re welcome 🙂
You are both amazing. Just normal, being yourself and not false. Brilliant, knowledgeable content. Thank you
Thanks for watching 🙂
Hello to you both again . Lovely to meet you yesterday at Laurieston. Regarding your question of what the 'old building used to be' as at 16.23 this is Rosefield Mills. The Rosefield Mills buildings are the last surviving large-scale Victorian industrial buildings in Dumfries, and are therefore of key cultural and historic importance to the town. The former mill buildings are listed, Category B and are located within the Dumfries Conservation Area. The buildings are derelict, and are included in the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland.
Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust (DHBT) has acquired the most prominent and significant of the former mill buildings, having a colossal Venetian palazzo frontage to the River Nith, a prominent and attractive architectural landmark in the town, much-loved by the local community.
The river-front building was completed in 1886 as the first part of an extended building programme between 1886 and 1896. The buildings were designed by the Dumfries architect Alan Burgess Crombie (1845-1904), whose architectural practice is part of the cultural legacy of Dumfries through his design of villas, manses, schools and church work mostly still in use. The mills were designed and built for Charteries, Spence & Co. Ltd., manufacturers of Scottish tweeds and worsted fabrics, which were exported across the world.
Rosefield Mills is of great significance to the community even as a derelict building, and the possibility of its re-use for community benefit has received spontaneous and widespread support from the public, both locally in Dumfries, more widely across the region, and even from Norway, as the building housed troops from Norway during WW2.
The wider former mills site extends to around 10 acres, much of it derelict, yet within the town centre, just five minutes’ walk from the High Street. There is huge scope for both the preservation of the remaining architectural heritage as well as for an outstanding piece of new urban design fulfilling a multitude of purposes. The aspiration is for the restoration of our building to act as a catalyst for the renewal and urban regeneration of the wider 10-acre site. Hope this answers the question.
Hi Peter. Good to meet you yesterday. Many thanks for the background info 👍. PS the park up you suggested has been very nice for the last couple of nights 👍
Good Morning Carol and Ken What a fascinating video. Before the Job, the company I worked had a Branch in Burns Street in Dumfries and in the early 70's and I worked as a Relief Manager for a spell. I enjoyed the Police Memorabilia and it put me in mind of the Memorabilia I have. Before my late mother died she gave me my late Grandfather's truncheon and brass pea whistle which I have to this day. He was the local Inspector in my home town he served from 1900 to 1935.After he retired he joined the Specials and then was a Store Detective, debt collector. Regards Crawford
Store detective. Now doesn’t that show the difference in approach between now and then when theft from shops was treated seriously. If we don’t get a grip now the only store left will be Amazon.
Thank you for the wonderful historical commentary to accompany the tour of Dumfries, never been there, and hope to visit one day. You were lucky with the weather, hope it's still being kind to you, now you've returned to Scotland 😄🚐❤️
We can recommend Dumfries for a visit. The weather is certainly being kind to us at the moment. Let’s hope it lasts 🙂
Thank you Carol and Ken for the history vlog, love your relaxing video's, best wishes from Essex.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Marvelous musical score that went with your drone footage as it flew over the meandering water way. Poor young Robert cut down so soon.
Guys if you are still in dumfries,,, try mennock pass beautiful area great wild camping spot ,,its near Scotland s highest village in the leadhills
We’ve marked it on the map 🙂👍
Big fan of Burns. The album of some of his songs by Eddi Reader is excellent
Hi Willie 👍
My Goodness....a mine of information about Robert Burns. Fascinating !!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!🎉❤
Our pleasure! 🙂
@@LifeistooshortCK 🌹👋
Having lived in Dumfries my whole life, I enjoyed your tour of it and the slightly exotic pronunciations 😊 the derelict building you asked about is an old woollen / textile mill, ships would come up the Nith and unload over the water at dock park and it would have been quite the busy place back in the day, sadly now only one fire away from demolition, however, there is an effort underway to renovate and preserve it. The suspension bridge has always been known as such, perhaps being a technological marvel in its day and requiring no further extrapolation. The street beside it is called Suspension Brae which I always thought was nice. The high street is struggling at the moment and it was nice of you to show its finer side. Hopefully with local initiatives and investment from nice tourists like yourselves we will be able to build it up again.
Well we hope our video persuades lots of tourists to visit as there is plenty worth seeing. Thanks for the history of the mill. We tried searching but couldn’t find the history. We do hope it can be saved as the frontage was magnificent. 👍
Another beautifully edited episode, full of lots of interesting facts about a part of the UK I know very little about.
I particularly liked the epic drone shots and complimentary music choice - clearly a labour of love...👍
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Great video love the history lesson. Many other channels seem to have moved away from van life to lifestyle videos. Please don't change.
Thanks David. Glad you enjoy the videos 🙂
Hi Carol & Ken what a lovely video it's nice to were you have been any way take care out there see you next time.
Thanks Robert ❤️
Great Video of my home town. Hope you both enjoyed your visit. It really is a lovely area
We had a great time thanks 😀
Thank-you, my dad loved Robie Burns and often quoted him when I was a child, back in the 50's. Brought back fond memories.
Hi Glenys. You might like to watch this video we made a few years ago when we visited Alloway. th-cam.com/video/6LjwlwcZBi4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=plrVD-VmrAY9gNgX
Thanks Ken that was a little treat!
I’be been binge watching all your older videos and jumped over to watch your newest creation. Got a shock to see the new van and realised just how much you were recognised in the little red camper by your fans. 😕
I hope you can find a catchy tag line and some personalised van decals so we can all stop and say hi 👋
I’m so excited to see where you’re off to this year 🎉❤😊
We have added a few personal touches inside the new van as you will see ☺️
@@LifeistooshortCK I already have and it looks so cosy. It suits you both very much. Such a great layout for people/nature watching. I’m hoping to bump into you both at some point and say hi too 👋🤗
Hi guys. We like Dumfries. Lovely walk along the river. We’ve had a couple of decent Chinese there too. Hope you’re both well and enjoying Scotland. Looks like the weather might be picking up 🤞
Weather has been amazing until yesterday. It’s been a good trip so far 👍
Thank you for the wonderful history tour guys! The drone shots, editing, and beautiful choice of music makes it so special!👏👍
Thanks Suzy 🙂
Watching as per on a quiet Sunday morning with a cuppa tea 🍵 and dunking biscuits 😋 ❤❤ Dumfries is a very historic town & a lovely place to visit 🙂👍Now what you made ya think the guy was less than impressed with a couple of you tubers 🤔🤔was it the very shrift 'Aye' by any chance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 another very relaxing watch with my essentials start to the day 🎉
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I last went to Dumfries in 2020 between lockdowns as you do.
How interesting that you where there on the anniversary xx
I've been on that route ❤ I enjoyed. Look forward to your take
We couldn’t believe our luck being there just at the right time for the commemoration 🙂
He was only 37 when he died , but he packed a lot into those years .
And the world is better for it 👍
Love your show, I’m in Oklahoma, USA❤️
Hello Oklahoma ❤️
My dad was a stone Mason and did a lot if the renovation work on caerlaverock castle.. we live in cummertrees, not too far from caerlaverick. I was driving past greyfriars church when I saw Robert the Bruce entering the church. So wish I had met you both that day. Love your videos, keep up the good work. Xx
Would have been lovely to meet you 🙂👍
Great vid Carol& Ken 😁
Loved watching this. Recovering from abdominal surgery and I can’t wait to be back to normal and pain free again to go on my own adventures. You are keeping me company during my recovery. CJ ❤
Hi CJ. Glad our videos are helping your recovery. We wish you well ❤️
Loved this one. Be safe❤
Great vlog of Dumfries. I’d forgotten how lovely the scenery is up there. I’m inspired to return there now. Very good music again. Can I ask the name of the song at 5:56 please? A double pleasure to watch and listen 👍
That’s “Hard Times” by Katrina Stone.
I always get a lovely cosy feeling after watching Lifeistooshort on a Sunday morning over a mug of coffee. I visited Dumfries recently and sadly I was shocked by the poor condition of the town centre. Such a lovely place deserves a good clean up. The old building is Rosefield Mills. Thanks for all the interesting facts during your journeys.
I hope they can save that mill👍
Well I finally made it through the video. I tried last evening to watch but made the mistake to watch it lying down….hence I fell asleep. So try again. It was a good one! I love Dumfries. So much lovely history. Take care! Mary
Great video, thanks for sharing 😊
This is my perfect van day 😂 a wander around a place new to me discovering its history most everywhere has something interesting. You can uncover your own history lesson. Thank you for sharing ❤
Hello from Indiana USA and this 63 year old lady. Very nice videos 😍. I found your channel a few weeks ago and I am so happy that I subscribed. You have a wonderful way of presenting the information about your Country. Thanks for sharing this with me.
Greetings to Indiana 👋🇺🇸 Welcome to our channel and thanks for subscribing ❤️
Great video, I enjoy all the history.
Awesome episode, thank you Carol and Ken 👍
Wonderful video❤ love learning the history of places you visit.
I love all the history you include in your vlogs. Thank you for another enjoyable and relaxing video. 😊
Again, a very beautiful video ! Many thanks!
Thank you 🙂
Lovely tour and so informative. Watching from our new home in Sonning Common.
Thanks for watching. Good luck in your new home 🙂
This was one of the best ones thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Nicely crafted vlog, including the music choice. Well done on the Burns coverage!
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thank you. It was very interesting 😊
You’re welcome ☺️
Great history 😊 interesting video carol and ken thanks 😊
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Great tour 😊
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thanks for a great video, Carol & Ken.
Our pleasure! 🙂
Interesting history ... I enjoyed the tour and information Thanks
Thanks for watching 🙂
I really enjoy your history lessons, very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Great ...🙂👍
Love u guys… ❤❤ ps… new van is stunning!!
Hari OM
I am long overdue for a revisit to Caerlaverock - so glad you enjoyed it. Shame Sweetheart Abbey wasn't open because that is equally lovely. Fabulous filming, as always! YAM xx
YOur LITTLE RED had some great features, yet what I sense you're enjoying to the full, with your new camper van, is the ability to kick back and relax on those blustery days with the numerous windows, to view your surroundings with a good cup of hot tea
You’ve nailed it. The panorama windows are a game changer and we love the rear lounge area for relaxing 🙂👍
That was a great vlog with plenty of history and beautiful sites. The castle and the grave yard with those elaborate grave stones were a little bit creepy.
That was so relaxing and informative. Love the music that you put with it and your drone footage is brilliant.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thank you very much for a very nice video showing so much history packed into a video!!! the castle and its history, your visit to Dumfries and all the history on Robert Burns !!!
Glad you enjoyed it
One of your best videos,so calming ,well done
Thank you very much!
Really interesting tour of Dumfries. Thank you both ❤
Thanks for watching 🙂
Great video thanks Certainly a lot of history in that town. 😊
Thanks for watching 🙂
Thanks for taking us on this stage of your adventure. Enjoyed it😀👍
Thanks for watching 🙂
As I watch this, we are being drenched with a severe storm. Flood and tornado watch
Stay safe. Hope everything will be ok ❤️
Lovely video guys ,wow that was an amazing castle
Thanks. A very interesting castle 🙂👍
Love your videos. My husband and I always look forward to them. Xx
Thanks to you both for watching 🙂
Well this was interesting as I’m actually related to Robert The Bruce line. You both have settled nicely into the new van, nice to see.
Hi, what a wonderful informational vlog. Thank you so much. Safe travels ❤❤
Our pleasure!
Hi Carol and Ken, thank you for the history of this place I enjoyed very much,
Thank you for sharing and taking me places that I know I will never go
Take care ❤
Until next time X X X
Our pleasure!
That was really interesting, thank you. I am a new subscriber and am really enjoying your travels!
Welcome aboard!
Very well presented and informative Enjoyed the video. thanks to you both...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Such lovely drone footage with the perfect music selection for it. This one felt special.
Glad you enjoyed it
Dear Carol & Ken, I've been a subscriber watching your videos for years , and I thank you both so much for sharing your wonderful adventures. So often in the evening scouring all the Big channels you know CH 4,5 UKTV play etc. etc. not finding much I like, then go to you tube and Hooray there's a new video from Life is too short, and I know I will enjoy the journey! Well wishes and Thanks again:) K
Well that is a compliment. We do the same, youtube provides much better entertainment than the big guys 👍
We enjoyed the video. Loved the drone footage. All very interesting. Was the salmon tasty. It looked it. Thankyou.
Yes, the salmon was delicious 🙂
That was a beautiful piece of music for the morning drone show. Can you tell me what it is? Thank you 🙏 😊
I apologise but naming a track I have used is not easy. I have a library of thousands of tracks which I have sub divided into groups of emotions.
When I need a piece of music I decide the emotion I am trying to create and skip through the tracks until I find something that fits.
We used to log them all but gave up as it was too much work to manage.
To find the name I have to guess the emotion category, skip through each track until I find it. It takes too much time so I don’t do it anymore.
Often you can identify the track using Siri, Alexa etc. Sometimes that will not work.
I licence all of my music from Artlist.
Really yummy episode!
Caerlaverock Castle looks well worth a visit and I really enjoyed all the historical stuff about Dumfries. Loved the drone shots of the estuary too.
Cheers Euan. We will have to bring the vans together for a meet soon 👍
Smashing! We're loving how chilled and relaxed you seem in the new van. So much more room! N&Nx
It’s very cosy. Hopefully you will get to see it one day 😁👍
@@LifeistooshortCK We would love that!
Thank You For That Excellent Video
You are very welcome
another very interestıng vıdeo.thank you
I’ve seen a few people visit this place but you are the only ones I’ve seen who went in. Very interesting. Loved the history. Nice drone sequence. 🤣. Castle Greggs😂. Thanks guys. 🙏👍
Thanks for watching. Sounds like we were lucky to find the castle open when we were there. Hope you get a chance to go in next time you are up that way 🙂👍
Thanks for taking us around Dumfries, it's one of those places, I'm ashamed to say, that I've past by many a times on my way somewhere but never stopped. That will change next time thanks to your visit. Cheers 👍🐸
It was our first time visiting Dumfries. So glad we did. Thanks for watching 🙂
Morning guy's thanks for the video fantastic blue bells the sun shining in Birmingham about time keep safe u2 😂
You too!
Hello you two, nice one again. I always Google the history part, and wished I could do some time travel. See you the next time.
Hello. Glad you enjoyed the history 🙂
Watched this on the big telly this morning and thoroughly enjoyed! Full of information and of course Ken’s quips! The unimpressed Scotsman made me laugh! Thanks Ken and Carol. RoseField Mills is the grand old building. I looked it up!
Thanks for that. That gentleman put me in my place with his deep aye 😁👍
That was really interesting, how lucky that you were there on the day. You do make me laugh Ken. 😊
If I make you laugh then I am happy 😁👍
You made Dumfries appear interesting, well done. That used to be the biggest town to us however over the years has declined significantly. I still love Scotland and going back whenever I can. Great vlog as always.
So many towns are being run down. The people could do a better job if the Councils got out of the way.
Back in the day,I would tramp thru Dumfries coming of the boat and head down the A75 to were ever. But some day I will go over and explore Dumfries and Galloway proper, thanks for sharing your vid, Ken and Carol, wishing you both many happy miles in Snoopy.
Thanks Stephen. We can certainly recommend Dumfries & Galloway. We are loving exploring the beautiful landscapes in Snoopy 🙂
Thank you for the informative video - for me I’d prefer if you linger on some on the interesting sights you stumble on - example past visitors carving their names in the castle walls. But none the less very enjoyable.
Super informative vlog. Cannot wait to visit UK.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Another great video Ken and Carol. We had family living in Scotland until recently, they have after 16 years now returned to Australia. It provided the reason for many trips to see them. We to, visited Dumfries - a nice market town but must have been very hard living when Robert the Bruce was around, not the nice convient power we now have at our finger tips. We traveled extensively through the UK every year during that period. You bought back many memories. Hoping I’m not offensive but wondering what camera do you use? The picture quality is excellent with your very steady hand.
The cameras are an iPhone 14 Pro Max, an Osmo Action version 1 and a DJI mini 2. All have been upgraded now to an Osmo Pocket 3, and Canon SX70 and the drone will be upgraded next. That footage starts with the next series. 👍
Thank you both. Very interesting. Very luxurious castle. Although it must be said Scotland could use some better weather.😅
Robert Burns, I've heard is very connected to Dumfries. Thank you for this Guys. Still very much catching up. Loving your broadcasts. ❤❤
We are enjoying some glorious sunshine in Scotland at the moment. Hope it lasts 🙂 Thanks for watching 👍
Hi, Great video as usual.
May I ask what video editing software do you use.
Keep the videos flowing.
Cheers
John & Jane.
Hi John & Jane. I use Lumafusion for editing.
As always, an informative and entertaining venture. Loved the Castle, structures and buildings of South West Scotland in the very prominent red sandstone, goes right back to Carlisle, and is very warm and attractive. Loved your Burns interlude as well. Presbyterianism is past centuries and old graveyards have marvellously carved and narrated headstone, and where you can get to see the rear of the stone, they usually had skull & crossbones carved to maintain your own (viewers) and the incumbents' mortality. Take care & stay safe. Kia Ora from New Zealand. 💜💜 PS: One of the best preserved pot prisons is in inside Dunvegan Castle on Skye, also used as entertainment of diner guests, who then could end up in the pot, which I recall was also tidal.
You are a mine of useful information Xavier. We will get back to the Isle of Skye one day 👍
See you on the next adventure
Loved the walk round Dumfries, this was where I brought my flowers, before I got married in gretna. Southerness was where we stayed for a week. ❤
How lovely. Southerness will be in the next episode 🙂
👍🙏🌹 Relaxing video😃
Hello 🖐. Watching you from Thessaloniki and I loved the reaction from this man, he was really unimpressed 😂. Great vlog, enjoyed the history. Take care
Thanks for watching. Enjoy Thessaloniki 😎👍
@@LifeistooshortCK 👍😁
Another great video! Congrats on more subscribers - this has to be one of the best channels on TH-cam! Happy trails and take care
Wow, thanks! Very kind of you 🙂
Found your channel just recently and have been binge watching. ❤ I live in Canada so please forgive me if this question is silly....why do they have barriers across parking areas or car parks?🤔
The barriers are there primarily to prevent travellers, Gypsies setting up camp. Before they started installing them the sites would be taken over for several weeks often being left covered in rubbish once they were finally moved on.
Thank you❤
My sister and I have had the privilege of seeing salmon jumping up a weir on the river Tweed in Scotland.I must have been around 9 or 10 and my Grandad said that it was something most people never see.I didn't realize how lucky we were at the time.
You reminded me of my wonderful Grandad and the experience by your video,so thank you.Safe travels.See you on the next.
We would love to see salmon jumping one day. Glad we could bring back that happy memory of your Grandad for you 🙂
@@LifeistooshortCK I saw the salmon jumping up Brooks Falls in Alaska. And the grizzly bears catching them in mid air. Amazing, and unforgettable!
@@willar7179 wow 😮 We would love to see that one day ❤️