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.
Lincoln is nice. Cathedral city. And many other old buildings.
I looks like a lovely town. I've never been that far East. I had a very bad experience in Nottinghamshire many years ago (Chesterfield) so I kind of dismissed the East of England after that. I have been past Grantham on the way to Cambridge. What is the character of the people like, M? https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/reasons-to-visit-lincoln-england-cathedral-castle/
Chesterfield is in Derbyshire. Mansfield in on the Nottinghamshire side of the border; than end.
Indeed. Mining area, Notts,Derbyshire, and South Yorkshire are full of old pit villages. I went on a tour of working mine as a wee lad. I was very young but i still remember the lift and the dark of the place.
Was Tony Benn's Constituency.
Hi Robert, to give just a broad outline, in my early twenties, I made a very rash decision to move in with a guy who I barely knew and he turned out to be unsavoury. We went to visit some of his friends in Chesterfield and they treated me very badly. That's the least traumatic way of describing it. Since then, I have some PTSD around that part of the world. It's irrational, but it's not something I've been able to shake even after all these years.
I visited Chesterfield once whilst campaigning. I also thought the people very friendly. Nice market square.
What happened in Chesterfield?
I found Chesterfield to be a quiet, pleasant market town with it's twisted spire cathedral.
I have a very unpleasant memory about being in Chesterfield and Mansfield. So Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire are regions I'd prefer to avoid, Desmond. It's a long time ago, but I still have a touch of PTSD about it.