Trip planning

[fbhjr]

I’ve been working on our list of things to see in the UK in November.

It isn’t at all a question of not having things we want to see. It is "we’re only going to be there 4 1/2 days, what can we fit in?"
These are only our first choices:


I don’t think we can do all that in 4 1/2 days. I’ve thought of making it 5 days. Maybe that would help.

Of course, if I zoom out it looks more doable:

Hey, I can see my house from there!

Comments

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

You can't squeeze in another day??

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

That is actually squeezing in extra time.
If we flew home Sunday we'd lose that whole day. So, we're planning on flying home that Monday.

[touchofgr3y.livejournal.com]

Ha - that's how my trip planning always goes too (adding in an extra day). It looks like it's going to be an amazing trip - it would be if you only made half of those places!

[meathiel]

I love the Torchwood pin ... haha ...

What is the graffiti one for?

[becofoz]

You'll be doing well if you can fit in half of that in the time you have.

Goodrich Castle was a neat little gem. My sister and I pretty much stumbled upon it without knowing anything about it, and it turned out to be one of our favourites.

Anything in Wales is pretty though. Snowdonia, with Beaumaris Castle and Caernarfon Castle is excellent as well.

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

I hope you get to fit in a lot! I am so excited for you two!

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

"See? I can see my house from here!"

*spit/drink* Yeah, yeah you can, actually…

I always forget just how far north/removed the Royal Armoury is from London.
It's way up there

[weaselett.livejournal.com]

That is an impressive list - you could totally do it, ish, in 5 days depending on where based...(train to leeds prob being the way to do that - cos it an evil drive otherwise - regularly did the trip north england to cardiff for a year, the m6 and the pennies are tricky things) - I am intrigued by the Graffiti and watery tart pins (and gold hoards!) and goodrich weekend only

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

The graffiti is one of the chalk drawings on the side of a hall.
The watery tart is a lake that legend has it was the one the lady of the lake lived in.
The weekend only is a castle that is only open weekends. (Most of the pins are castles as my wife really likes castles.)

The hoard ones are for "The Staffordshire Hoard". We went to see some of it when it came to visit the US. My wife really liked it and expressed a desire to see it again. So, I marked its current homes on the map.
http://fbhjr.livejournal.com/521587.html

[weaselett.livejournal.com]

ahhhh - I wondered, but couldn't think which one was there (because penis man the Cerne Giant will always be my favourite and the fact the village cafe has a clock of him that is one of the best pieces of tourist kitch ever). There's the whole circle of different era horses from stonehenge way to just short of cerne. And with stonehenge there's woodhenge and durrington ten min drive away (sadly you can not visit robin hood's ball easily, it's on the proper firing ground salisbury plain)

Goodrich, last I knew was open all the time, that was why I was thrown - castles are great, I can not blame her for that one

I did not realise that the staffordshire hoard had been distributed so widely!

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one, Cerne Abbas. But, I didn't want to put "penis man" on the map.
My wife is not overly interested in Stonehenge, and I've already seen it.
She does love stained glass and is interested in the Magna Carta, and Salisbury has both. But, it is a ways out of where we were planning to be. That's why I was looking at other things to see if it would be worth going over that way.

Goodrich is listed as being open 7 days a week until 1st November. As we're going to be about 3 weeks after that...

The hoard is in 4 museums plus some on tour: http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk
It's almost like it was together for so long it has to be apart now.

[weaselett.livejournal.com]

*nods* yeah Salisbury is also a bit awkward to get around for inexplicable reasons (and stonehenge, with the new center is a lot more time consuming than in the past).

Goodrich has changed (went late November 2009 - on the crazy two students and a lecturer who learned to drive in Jerusalem field trip - strangely during the week before the Merlin ep filmed at goodrich aired) - It's a very nice castle, v complete and the little cafe was nice - it's an easy two hours max drive from Cardiff

I have completely missed all of the end results of the funding runs and such on the staffordshire hoard it would seem - and yeah, treasure trove law at it's best. I do know there are some not terrible replicas around now though.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

It all looks brilliant!

I am so looking forward to the pictures! :)