In Search of One of England's Finest Roads | Yorkshire Dales (Road Trip Part 2)

Summary

A motovlogger rides through the scenic Yorkshire Dales in England. After stopping frequently for photos, he realizes he's low on gas but can't find a station. He backtracks and refuels, then continues to the Buttertubs Pass. Though fog limits visibility, he sees the Pass is breathtaking. Racing sunset, he makes it to the pub where he's staying, dries his wet gear by the radiator, and orders dinner. The treacherous foggy ride back was the scariest of his life, but he survives to make it back safely.

Takeaways

• 😀 The video takes place in the Yorkshire Dales in England during the winter.
• 🚗 The video focuses on driving and riding on scenic roads in the Yorkshire countryside.
• ⛽️ The narrator runs out of fuel while riding due to not monitoring the fuel gauge.
• 🍽 The narrator stops to eat and refuel before continuing the journey.
• 🌫 The weather turns bad with heavy rain, wind and fog reducing visibility.
• 😧 The narrator describes the scary ride back in near darkness and heavy fog.
• 🏡 The narrator makes it to the overnight pub/inn accommodation.
• 🔥 The old inn has a cozy fire to warm up and dry out.
• 😴 The narrator puts in a food order before settling in for the night.
• 🛏 The room is simple but has everything needed for a comfortable stay.

Q & A

What was the name of the road that the narrator considered one of the best driving roads in England?

The narrator referred to it as the butter tub pass, but didn't seem totally sure of the exact name.

Why did the narrator have to double back at one point during his drive?

He realized he was very low on fuel and hadn't seen a gas station in a long time, so he had to turn around and drive back to find one.

What kind of accommodation did the narrator book for the night?

He booked a room at a pub/inn called The Tennants for £55 per night using booking.com.

What made the return ride in the dark so challenging and scary?

Extremely heavy fog set in that reduced visibility to about 20 meters. With no lights and tricky terrain, the narrator found it very difficult and frightening to navigate back.

What was the narrator unable to do during parts of his drive due to lack of mobile connectivity?

He couldn't access Google Maps or other services that require mobile data/signal to help navigate or find information.

How old were some parts of the inn where the narrator stayed?

He mentioned that apparently some parts were about 400 years old.

Why did the narrator have to get his food order in early at the inn?

Because it was off season, they would close the kitchen if they didn't have enough orders coming in.

What was the narrator able to see drying above the radiator when he first arrived at the inn?

He had wrapped all his wet belongings around the radiator to dry them off.

What view did the narrator expect to see from his room the next morning?

He thought his room would look out onto a very tall sheer rock face.

How much distance did the narrator cover in his first 4 hours of driving that day?

Only about 20 miles because he kept stopping to enjoy the views.

Outlines

00:00

😄 Starting the road trip from Yorkshire

The narrator wakes up in Ilkley, Yorkshire and is excited to start a road trip to see the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. The plan is to focus on two scenic driving roads, different from the previous long drive on the motorway. The booked accommodation for the night is very affordable at £55.

05:14

🌄 Stopping frequently to enjoy the views

The narrator keeps stopping to enjoy the views, taking photos and videos. Realizes the bike is running low on fuel since the fuel gauge is on the last bar. There are no petrol stations or towns visible, and no mobile data to check location, so heads back the same way to find fuel.

10:17

⛽ Found fuel and food

Found a petrol station, filled up the tank, and ate at a recommended place. The destination called Buttertubs Pass is confirmed to be an excellent driving road. But the daylight is fading after several stops, so heads quickly to the destination.

15:30

🌫 Reached the scenic route in bad weather

Arrived at the scenic Buttertubs Pass regarded as one of England's best driving roads, but poor visibility due to rain and fog obscures the beautiful cliffs and waterfalls. Has to race back before sunset without phone signal to find the way.

20:32

🛏 Arrived at the inn for the night

Arrived at the inn called The Tennants for the night. The 400 year old building has a pub and restaurant. The room is simple but cozy, with a great view. After settling in, went downstairs to order dinner before the kitchen closes.

🚗 Scary night ride back in fog

The ride back from Buttertubs Pass was frightening, done mostly in darkness and fog with visibility only 20 meters. Considered sleeping outdoors, but made it back to the inn safely for dinner. Scariest ride ever.

Keywords

💡Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales refers to a rural region in northern England known for its picturesque valleys, hills, traditional stone villages, and winding roads. In the video, the narrator drives through the Yorkshire Dales, stopping frequently to admire and photograph the scenic views. He describes the area as 'breathtakingly beautiful' with 'glorious countryside.' The Yorkshire Dales provides the backdrop and context for his road trip.

💡Driving road

Driving roads refer to roads that are particularly enjoyable, scenic, and interesting to drive on. The narrator is seeking out the best driving roads in the Yorkshire Dales area to experience driving his motorbike on roads with twists, turns, hills, and beautiful scenery. He mentions the Buttertubs Pass as one of England's finest driving roads.

💡Buttertubs Pass

The Buttertubs Pass is a high mountain pass road through the Yorkshire Dales national park. The narrator makes it a goal to drive on this road, describing it as 'thought of by some as one of the best driving roads in England.' However, bad weather obscures the views when he finally reaches it.

💡Motorbike

The narrator takes a motorbike trip through the Yorkshire Dales in order to ride on scenic driving roads. He films his journey by motorbike, stopping frequently to admire views and villages. Fueling up the motorbike and making it safely back in the dark and fog are challenges.

💡Scenery

The beautiful natural scenery of the Yorkshire Dales, including the hills, valleys, villages, and dramatic cliff views, is a main focus of the video. The narrator frequently stops to photograph and admire the scenery, despite falling behind schedule.

💡Winter

The video takes place during winter, which impacts the narrator's experience. Pros of winter include lower accommodation prices, but cons include shorter daylight, colder weather, and reduced visibility from fog.

💡Fog

Hazardous fog sets in as the narrator tries to traverse the Buttertubs Pass at sunset. The fog severely reduces visibility to '20 meters' and makes it treacherous for him to find his way back in the dark.

💡Pub

The narrator stays overnight at an old historic pub with rooms upstairs. English pubs often offer inexpensive lodging. He describes the warmth and hospitality.

💡Video blog

The narrator films his motorbike road trip as a first-person video blog, frequently speaking into the camera to describe his experiences, thoughts, and reactions along the way.

💡Road safety

Road safety is a concern, as the narrator struggles to navigate narrow, winding roads in foggy darkness. He contemplates sleeping outside since visibility is so poor. The video highlights road trip hazards.

Highlights

Staying in a characterful property in the Yorkshire Dales for only £55 a night

Focusing on driving two beautiful, peaceful roads in the Dales today

One road is regarded as one of the finest driving roads in England

Stunning discounts on accommodation in the winter in England - as low as £40 a night

Stopped to admire the postcard-perfect Yorkshire Dales village

Ran out of fuel from enjoying the scenery too much, had to double back

Heading to the Buttertubs Pass, considered one of England's best driving roads

Incredible cliffs and waterfalls across the road, but fog and rain obscuring views

Gale force winds and reduced visibility made it one of the scariest rides ever

Staying at a 400-year-old classic pub with rooms - feels very warm and cozy

Nearly pitch black, foggy ride back was the most terrifying ever - nearly slept outside

Following fence lines at 17 mph, constantly correcting to avoid ditches

Considered sleeping next to the bike rather than ride in those conditions

Made it back safely to the pub in time to get a hot meal

Scariest, most hairy ride ever, with visibility down to about 20 meters

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hello and welcome back from illey

Yorkshire it

feels just incredible to wake up up here

Yorkshire Dale's just a few minutes away

from me Honda trans up downstairs and

staying in such a characterful property

like this I cannot wait to hit the road

there are two specific roads I'm

focusing on today and it'll be very

different from yesterday because

yesterday it was a 230 M SLO up the

motorway just to get to the edge of the

Beauty Spot now I'm here the two roads

for today I want to focus on are

beautiful driving roads in the middle of

Glorious Countryside total Solitude

around one of those roads is regarded by

some as one of the finest driving roads

in England the location I'm staying

tonight I've just booked it about 10

minutes

ago on booking.com was £55 a night and

scrolling through over my breakfast this

morning the discounts available in

offseason now in England to book

accommodation is staggeringly good I've

seen some properties at £60 a night

usually usually brought down to about 55

to 60 a night I could easily find a room

above a pub for 40 a night without

looking for more than 2 minutes or so so

you really can do a trip like this in

the winter on a very very reasonable

budget 55 a night for me though I think

above a pub tonight 40 minutes away from

that but I'm going to do a big loop in

order to get there I can't waste any

more time I'm too excited let's

go

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oh it's all so pretty the problem is I'm

stopping all the time it's been three

stops and 25 minutes just to enjoy the

beautiful views but this one I've

stopped at because I want to show an

example of a beautiful Yorkshire dalees

Village it's like it's straight out of a

post card flip the

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oh this is so stupid of me I've been

enjoying the scenery too much and I

didn't even think about fuel I look down

at my fuel gauge and it's onto the final

bar the final bar of fuel and I don't

know how long it's been on the final bar

fuel so I I don't really know if I have

5 mil of fuel or 20 mil of fuel I tried

to see if there's a fuel indicator on

the bike but

I I couldn't figure it out

so just says consumption

trip

consumption nothing

nothing and I haven't seen a petrol

station all day all day it's now

1:00 so I'm I'm thinking I'm going to

have to go all the way back I came until

I find a sign for Big Town not that I've

seen one and there's no mobile data no

mobile signal so I can't put it onto

Google Maps or anything like that so I

think I'm going to have to go all the

way back because I'm deep into the

yorkshire's national park now which is

completely breathtaking but at least for

now double back hopefully get some fuel

and find a decent sized town which I

haven't

seen for a long time

now it's a shame very very badly

organized

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that feels so much better bike's been

filled to the brim I have also eaten

that was a very very good place I highly

recommend it I was chatting to the owner

there and he said that the place I'm

going I forget the exact name I think

it's the butterier pass is indeed an

extremely good driving Road and very

very Scenic so I'm going to the right

place the only problem is I've been

riding for 4 hours and I've covered

about 20 miles right now I'm only about

20 miles away from where I started the

day so I now need to head off not stop

once until I get to the location because

the sun will set in about 2

hours and I'm going to be there at 4:00

even if I don't stop once I'm must get

that

stay

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I made it welcome

to what is thought of by some as one of

the best driving roads in England the

butter tub pass I don't know if the

microphone's going to work because my

phone's just said it detects water in

the system I've had to do an emergency

override on the microphone because

everything is Soden in water and again I

don't know how good the mic is if it

will stop picking up the wind because it

is gale force wind up here in fact you

can see it all of the burns are facing

that way visibility is about 80 M or so

it's about half an hour to Sunset

I can see the beauty through all of the

Mist the fog and the rain on a clear day

this really would be one of the best

driving roads in England that I've ever

seen and it's a shame because

here across the road and the sheet of

gray are

breathtakingly dramatic Cliffs dropping

down with waterfalls I've seen glimpses

every so often but the weather's closing

in so much now the visibility is is just

not good enough to be able to see it but

across the road there spectacular views

I have to race back now as quickly as

possible because I'm about half an hour

from Sunset no signal so I'm just going

to have to ride that way until I get

some signal figure out where I

am

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welcome to feels great to arrive I think

it's called the tenants in it's hard to

put an exact date on this apparently I

was looking into this because there's so

many different aspects of this building

but some bits apparently are about 400

years old or so it's a classic Pub

slashin so you've got the pub section

downstairs with a restaurant that I

filmed a bit earlier and then upstairs

you've got all of the rooms because it's

off seon you have to get your food order

in fairly early because I think they'll

just close the kitchen if there aren't

any orders coming in because there

simply isn't the footfall at this time

of year so I'm going to go

downstairs put in an order I'm delighted

that it feels like a SAA in here can

feel myself heating up going from cold

outside to very very warm in here

massive radiator I've wrapped everything

around this because everything's soaking

wet and it's so warm it's burning my leg

but also within half an hour an hour

it'll all be dry and I'll be good to go

for tomorrow morning so I'm running

downstairs putting an order

in feels great to be in the warmth and

dry I'll take this off the tripod and

show you what we've

got it's a very nice very clean simple

simple but everything you

need I think that will be a view of

a I think a very ber sheer Rock in fact

I think it will be that that I'll be

looking out to in the

morning TV little coffee machine there

bathroom so it's nothing ludicrously

fancy but more than enough

last bit of stuff I need to do just

empty that waterproof bag and then I'm

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the ride back from the I always forget

the name the

butter butter something pass I shouldn't

have done the last stop off to get a

pick with the bike in the front

because I ended up riding back the whole

way in almost pitch black the sun

completely set about 10 minutes after

that and the fog came in and the

visibility was down to about genuinely

20 M or so and I promise hand on heart

that is probably the the scariest most

hairy ride I've ever done anywhere in

the world in my life couldn't see a

thing I put the fog lights on did

everything I could but nothing worked

and all I could do is just follow a

fence or a tree along and so many times

I was going along 17 M hour maximum and

I'd see myself going towards a ditch or

something then have to do a last minute

turn it was so bad I I've never done

this before it was so bad I was semic

considering sleeping out in the open

because I had my waterproof so I'm

actually I've been really warm all day I

thought look I can just lie down next to

the bike and sleep there it was that bad

it was really scary

anyway I

survived and I got my food order in on

time which I'm delighted about because

otherwise I'd have had to go on the bike

and go to a supermarket so that is

perfect and I'll wrap it up there thank

you so much everyone for watching see

you all in the next

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