Cant beat living at home in the countryside. In the welsh marches. You dont realise how nice it is until your away for a few weeks then you come back home to it ........... Lush

I feel the same as Wheeler about Devon and the rest of the South West. Lovely area with lots to do and see.

If you feel like a trip in this direction Brendan give me a shout.

Les

Quality part of the world & 5 miles from my front door. I would also full endorse jamo's earlier recommendation of Ladybower, definitely well worth a visit.

For sentimental reasons I would add the Cairngorms and the area around Aviemore, the scenery is stunning, and it's where I was wed

Basically though anywhere north of Birmingham, or west of Bristol is well worth a visit. The rest is just flat, boring & full of rude southerners

South Westerners are not rude, but the Southerners who come here on holiday are. In spades!!!

Les

Where be you from, note that my post did say west of bristol do be a good place to visit

Lake District
Newquay

you know the road that goes down to "the highest village in england" (dont know what they are smoking)

its closed and you can slip into the road near the pub, and thats a hell of a long straight road.

Crispduk,

I intended to back up what you said about the SW and to underline what you mentioned about the Southerners.

And I was a Southerner originally!

Les

Right, back from our little jaunt – still in the UK, but finished driving around.

In short, we spent a week walking and camping in the Lake District – bought a guide book and OS map – and loved it. REALLY lucky with the weather, dry but not scorching. Shot up to Edinburgh, walked around the city for a day, and back to the Lakes for a couple of days – again, bad planning, it just ended up that way. Edinburgh is clearly a lovely city; we expect to be back and “do” it properly in the future.

Thanks for all your suggestions, and a few little invites – I’m embarrassed to say that, as we only found one point to log on (and didn’t want to spend a holiday glued to the computer), I met NO-ONE , mainly as I was usually driving through their area before I even thought of them! Planning in advance / communications is clearly not my strong point. Saw floods of scoobs, wondered about talking to the drivers but felt I might come across as a bit of an oddball.

Might go into more detail in future, but hate typing on Dad’s weird keyboard…

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