You are going on a UK roadtrip, what 5 places do you visit?
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The planes are grounded and the boats are on strike which means, UK holiday!!
So, you hire a car, book 2 weeks off and go for a trip to visit 5 places you have never been to in the UK but would like to visit, where are they & why?
So, you hire a car, book 2 weeks off and go for a trip to visit 5 places you have never been to in the UK but would like to visit, where are they & why?
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2) Next stop would be Stonehenge and Avebury, only a spit away from Salisbury and everyone should see Stonehenge before they die.
3) Further on towards the north and Oxford with its towers, a beautiful city.
4) The Cotswolds, idyllic visions of country villages long gone - but they aren't long gone, they still exist all the way from Oxford to Bath in the south.
5) Last stop before the glorious lakes is York, the most wonderful city in the whole of the UK, I say to all travellers who jump on planes to see exotic sites and who have never seen York, look at your own country first, you just may be pleased with what you find.
Scottish highlands is relatively unknown to me and the New Forest and all by B roads to see what else I can find. And bits of Lancashire where my fella was born as that's all new to me.
Gets my vote :-)
Also St Ives in Cornwall, Hunstanton in North Norfolk, Glastonbury (the town) and Yorkshire, mainly the Castleford area for nice old memories...
In that order.
You really should go if and when you get the opportunity, if you think Wales is beautiful then think again, the Scottish Highlands beats it hands down. D'ya know what? I think I love this island that I live on, every inch has its own beauty, even Port Talbot when you see the industry on one side of the road and the mountains on the other. I'm lucky to have been born here and to still live here.
Stoke-on-Trent
Hull
Scunthorpe
Staines
not really, Bath (never been), Dorset (never been), Exmoor, Peaks, Lakes
I have never been to Northern Ireland so would probably take a recce around there.
I'd also 'do' Land's End and John O'Groats, but would start at one, and finish at the other - with overnight stops at Aberystwyth (Welsh coast) - Ambleside (Lake District) - and Fort Augustus (Loch Ness)
My Living Room,
My Hallway,
My Stairs,
My Bed.
My brother lives in Castleford
Lundy/Puffin Island to look at the puffins.
Neolithic Orkney
Chapel Island.
Bryher Isles of Scilly.
I love islands and I haven't been to these.
It isn't the weather for me. Abroad is meeting new people and talking to them in their own language.
It is finding a restaurant that doesn't have pictures outside or English stodge on the menu. I told a friend once "I can eat toasted sandwiches at home. I don't come here to eat that rubbish!"
It is eating new food that is local to the area.
It is escaping the horrors of England for a week or two.
If my sister had bollocks, she'd be my brother!!
I haven't been to Chapel Island or Orkney but stayed for a long weekend on Lundy and highly recommend it as an experience in solitude. Isles of Scilly are gorgeous, I used to treat myself to a day trip when I lived in Cornwall and have been back for holidays since, one of the best days I've had was mid September a few years ago when the tides were unusually low, walking from St Mary's to St Martins over the sand and having lunch at the pub. Bryher is gorgeous too, I love the church there.
I agree. When I was little and everyone at school was going off to Spain for holidays to bake on Costa del Hot or wherever I felt so left out as all I could say was a train trip or a week in Cornwall but looking back there are so few places that I know about in this country (inc. Sottish Highlands, it's a push to know which bits I've not visited) so I can explore the world now knowing I appreciate this country all the more. My husband is a Blackburn lad and thought it was awful but I thought it was amazing to be positioned between the Lake and the coast. I've even grown to love the Fens from an aesthetic point of view as a photographer and illustrator.
Personally I have at least one holiday in the UK every year (I go camping) and I love it here. We've got loads of wonderful places to visit. From the places I've been, I've loved Dorset, Northumberland, the Lake District, Norfolk, Snowdonia, Derbyshire... Some of the next on my list are the Highlands, the Scottish islands (but so far away! I'd need at least a couple of weeks to make it worth while), Cornwall and Pemrokeshire.
Now if I had a helicopter and unlimited fuel reserves, they'd be the top two to visit on my list, followed by the Jurassic coast in Dorset, Bath, and places like the quaint Victorian Northern pockets of wealth such as Harrogate.