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

[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.