Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm making a list. Google maps are open, a digital compass is swinging left to right; large mug of very milky tea and a pile of coconut biscuits by my laptop. Places to visit in the UK... September to December. Things of interest to do. I've abandoned my annual winter trip to Gran Canaria (no sun this year) because of the uncertainty and hassle of vaccine passports, tests, and quarantine restrictions etc. I've given up on the idea of any foreign travel until next year when, with some luck, everyone will have got so fed up with being stamped, swabbed and scanned that things will return to normal and 2020 and 2021 will be an unpleasant but distant memory for most. This will be two years in a row that I've had my international wings clipped. None of the inept shower down in Westminster will ever getting my vote at an election! But I digress! I've travelled to most parts of England, and a few regions in Scotland and Wales. I'm sure, though, that there are still hundreds of places of interest and attractions to visit around Great Britain that I've yet had the pleasure to visit and experience. If you have any thoughts, recommendations, suggestions, I'd be generally appreciative and demonstrably grateful for the opportunity to tap them into Safari and get my research going.
As long as Labour don't get in, I'll be grand.
I didn't visit much of Britain, but the Coach Journeys - via the Belfast to Cairnryan Ferry - stopped at Tebay Restaurant at the M6 in Cumbria. Food to die for. (and Northern Ireland has good places to eat itself)
The Train Station at Angylsea with the huge name is great. Was there en route to a school trip to France in 1994, then again in 2014.
Glen Grant Distilery at Rothes was a good experience; however the Whisky Trail bus route - via Elgin - doesn't operate on Sundays. I was there on a Sunday - Burns' Day 2015. I had to wait almost two hours for a taxi to Elgin train station, and even longer for a train to Aberdeen. I also threw up at the platform. Then was sick again in the train and left the toilet unusable. (I should have brought my coat with me)
Manchester is the one place I have affinity for, especially as my Cousin - who now teaches in Dubai - lived over ten years at Radcliffe; just before Bury. I was at the National Football Museum; bit disappointing but good to know Football History.
Thanks, Desmond.