The allure of the Lake District has proved too strong for Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne.
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| Duncan Bannatyne by Lake Windermere - photo courtesy of in-cumbria |
The popular entrepreneur, best known for appearing in the hit BBC
television series Dragons’ Den, has a well-documented love of the Lakes.
And after putting his villa in the south of France on the market, he
opted to invest his money in a luxury holiday lodge on the shores of
Windermere.
His frequent trips to Fallbarrow Park, near Bowness-on-Windermere,
have been well-publicised and now the entrepreneur has taken the advice
of his 11-year-old son Tom and bought a three-bedroom lodge at the
five-star park.
Bannatyne has been visiting the park for the last 24 years. He said:
“I brought my youngest, Tom to Fallbarrow last year for the first time
and we were hiring lodges.
"So this year I gave him the choice of buying a lodge at Fallbarrow or a villa in the south of France and he chose Fallbarrow.
"If you’ve got a holiday home in France, you can’t really leave
school on a Friday night and come back on a Sunday so he loves the fact
that he can come here every weekend.”
The 64-year-old is not alone in shunning popular overseas resorts for
holidays a little closer to home, with a reported 7.8 million people
opting for a traditional British escape this summer.
