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.
Yes, but usually speeding past to get to somewhere else, hahah
I have been to Iceland twice, once in the winter and in the late summer. By far my favourite was the winter trip, because I enjoyed the long nights, the ease at which we saw the aurora borealis, and the snow. Oh how I love the snow. But going in winter does mean very little light (proper light last something like 4 hours a day) and difficulty getting to many of the tourist spots. Definitely wouldn't advice driving around the country solo. We got stuck in the snow a few times- we pushed it out ourselves once or twice, and were helped by passing strangers (everyone is very helpful there) sometimes too. If you do want to keep the sunshine in your trip, just remember that at summer you might have too much- we could only sleep with the very dark blinds firmly down. But you can see more of the country that way.
To be honest I'd happily go just to sit in a cabin out in the snowy countryside, to look up at the stars, with occasional visits to Reykjavik and the blue lagoon.
Jolly good!
Oh yes, you must go to the beach in winter or the evening when the grockles have gone and there's hardly anyone there. LOVE that. I want that back.
Yes, you must know of those towns if you're a Dorset dweller
You have both given me some wonderful ideas!
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.
Haha, my dad was a submariner, but what I took away from that was a lot of doom and gloom. If something goes wrong, you're done for.
Yes, I like the sea, but I don't really enjoy going in it or on it. I can kinda swim, but not at all well.
But I do love the sea, the power of it, its ever changing moods, and the horizon, that silvery line into infinity.
But the thing that really got me as a child was the green/black swell around Portland Bill. It was like looking into the abyss. Maybe it is what started me thinking about emptiness and how small we are.... Anyway, I don't want to go down that route today
I've also never been a huge fan of beaches, but I probably associate them with tourism, which means people, which means noise and chaos. The problem of growing up in a seaside tourist town.
A desolate beach, on the other hand, is a joy, particularly on a blustery day.
I know of Broadstone and Wimborne and have probably passed by, but that wasn't really the area I travelled much.
Oh yes! The sea!! I miss the sea. I've been living away from it for many years, it's calling me back now. Time to go home. Hopefully ASAP but probably in 3 years at the earliest. I know what you mean about feeling claustrophobic inland.
I live nearish the sea now but the beach is stony shingle. The horror.
Funny because I can't swim or anything but my dad was a sailor, so was his uncle and I met some distant American relatives through DNA testing. They were all sailors too. The sea appears to be in my blood. No wonder I drink a lot of water, lol.
I grew up in Broadstone and Wimborne, you must know of those. You're West Dorset and I'm East Dorset.
Studland, a wonderful place...
Earliest memories are of living on Portland Bill.
Mainly Weymouth growing up, but as a teen would spend time anywhere between Purbeck and Lyme Regis.
The occasional cycle from Weymouth to Lulworth was fun, not on a bmx though, hahaha.
I wouldn't often venture too far inland. Too far from the sea and I'd start to feel claustrophobic
Oh, where did you live, roughly, not the actual address? I grew up in Dorset...happy days!
Durdle Dor, Lulworth Cove, Compton Acres, Corfe Castle, Portland, the sunny golden beaches of Bournemouth, Poole Harbour, Wimborne Minster and model town, Brownsea Island, Kingston Lacey House...I'm sure I'll think of more...
The happy days of my childhood...One day I'll be back there...
Not only are Dorset, Somerset and Devon are all great, but also .....
en.wikipedia.org/.../Watchet
www.visit-watchet.co.uk/index.php
Was Tony Benn's Constituency.
Yes, anywhere along the Jurassic Coast is nice.
My old stomping ground when I was little.
Lot's of history, interesting geology, gentle rolling hills etc. Then there's Portland, which is something else altogether with great views westward over the Fleet and Chesil Beach
Well worth a visit.
Oh! You know I haven't, Kiki. I've been through it but not stopped. Yes, please. I'd love to know some interesting places to visit there.
Intelligent and sober! Good qualities in a human.
Me neither.
Have you been to Dorset? If not I can tell you of some places there.
Not a pub person. I don't drink alcohol.