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When I was aged eight, my parents took me on holiday to Windermere. Minutes after arriving at our lakeside campsite, I scrambled on to my lilo and set sail.
Unfortunately, a gusty breeze immediately buffeted me towards a row of fishermen. I remember crashing backwards through their fishing lines, staring up at angry anglers wondering how they’d hooked a rainbow-coloured lilo instead of a trout.
Nonetheless, I fell in love with Windermere, and decades later it’s another boat – albeit a more seaworthy one – that has lured me back.
The new MV Swift takes passengers from Bowness-on-Windermere to Ambleside, halfway along England’s largest lake