Just watched the Visit Ireland tourist advertisement, now maybe it's just me but please tell me they have more to offer than the Giants Causeway and the former home of the Titanic.
Some large rocks on a stoney beach and the shipyard that built the worlds greatest ship which sunk on it's maiden voyage possibly due to bad shipbuilding with inadequate rivets or possibly because of bad seamanship and the failure to build watertight doors insead of big movable walls ?
I am sure they have more to offer the world than that.
The Visit Scotland advert makes the place look very interesting, but where are the best hidden holidays in the UK, Sasha has been here 18years and seen very little of Britain so we would like to get out and about in the good weather this year, who can give us some good ideas and places of interest tips ?
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Sex God
Yorkshire.
It's a big county, but you can pick the bits you fancy.
York - a beautiful medieval (and yet modern) city with one of the best cathedrals in the country. Loads of excellent shopping and great museums and strong musical traditon that finds the buskers playing Mozart on street corners.
Leeds - a more modern city offering fantastic shopping and its own theatres and concert halls.
The Yorkshire coast - seaside resorts with traditional amusements and beaches, active fishing towns/ villages where you know the fish you get with your chips came in on one of the boats in the harbour that morning, hidden coves and steep cliffs where you can find fossils that have not seen the light of the sun for millions of years.
The Moors in the North Riding - rolling heather as far as the eye can see - with the haze of the North Sea on the eastern horizon. Riveaulx and Fountains Abbeys - majestic ruins where you can almost hear the chanting of the monks under the swish of the bezze in the grass.
The Wolds in the East Riding - green sheep country leading you south to the Humber and Lincolnshire - red sandstone villages tucked into the shelter of the vales.
The Dales in the West Riding - the land of Last of the Summer Wine. Hills where the 'bones' of the land show through. Stone outcrops giving form to the sweeping grass-lands. Hardy hill sheep cropping the short grass through the harshest winters, the summer heat baking the stones.
All of these home to butterflies, birds and hardy wild-flowers that fit the land completely.
Pubs that offer a warm welcome, great (often local) food and excellent beer.
It's a big county, but you can pick the bits you fancy.
York - a beautiful medieval (and yet modern) city with one of the best cathedrals in the country. Loads of excellent shopping and great museums and strong musical traditon that finds the buskers playing Mozart on street corners.
Leeds - a more modern city offering fantastic shopping and its own theatres and concert halls.
The Yorkshire coast - seaside resorts with traditional amusements and beaches, active fishing towns/ villages where you know the fish you get with your chips came in on one of the boats in the harbour that morning, hidden coves and steep cliffs where you can find fossils that have not seen the light of the sun for millions of years.
The Moors in the North Riding - rolling heather as far as the eye can see - with the haze of the North Sea on the eastern horizon. Riveaulx and Fountains Abbeys - majestic ruins where you can almost hear the chanting of the monks under the swish of the bezze in the grass.
The Wolds in the East Riding - green sheep country leading you south to the Humber and Lincolnshire - red sandstone villages tucked into the shelter of the vales.
The Dales in the West Riding - the land of Last of the Summer Wine. Hills where the 'bones' of the land show through. Stone outcrops giving form to the sweeping grass-lands. Hardy hill sheep cropping the short grass through the harshest winters, the summer heat baking the stones.
All of these home to butterflies, birds and hardy wild-flowers that fit the land completely.
Pubs that offer a warm welcome, great (often local) food and excellent beer.
Quote by MidsCouple24
Just watched the Visit Ireland tourist advertisement, now maybe it's just me but please tell me they have more to offer than the Giants Causeway and the former home of the Titanic.
Some large rocks on a stoney beach and the shipyard that built the worlds greatest ship which sunk on it's maiden voyage possibly due to bad shipbuilding with inadequate rivets or possibly because of bad seamanship and the failure to build watertight doors insead of big movable walls ?
I am sure they have more to offer the world than that.
The Visit Scotland advert makes the place look very interesting, but where are the best hidden holidays in the UK, Sasha has been here 18years and seen very little of Britain so we would like to get out and about in the good weather this year, who can give us some good ideas and places of interest tips ?
You live in staffs, imho it is possibly one of the most beautiful counties in the whole of the UK. Drive to Leek and walk for miles...or pop over the border to Derbys and walk the Ilam valley, Dovedale, Buxton, Matlock, Ashbourne
or come down to Devon and Cornwall and explore the South West Coast path, the beautiful beaches, the cider and scrumpy...:-)
BTW I visit Ireland a lot, and it has a hell of a deal more to offer...
Sex God
I'd love to visit the South West of the country. Cornwall looks so beautiful. I'd also like to visit Whitby and the Yorkshire coast. Anglesey is lovely and some of North Wales is spectacular.
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Sex God
As Nola said Anglesey is Beautiful, we go to Beaumaris a lot.
Sex God
And Northumbria is stunning too.
When it comes to the u.k., well England really, since that's what you ask about, it's very much going to depend upon what turns you on. I've lived and worked throughout the country, many years in yorkshire in particular. However nothing compared to Cornwall. The climate is generally better than most of the country, the overall pace of life is slower, the beaches are beautiful and the fishing villages are as they've been for centuries. It's a place to just allow yourself to become as one with, although that may take a little longer than a holiday allows....still a lovely experience though.
Quote by MidsCouple24
Just watched the Visit Ireland tourist advertisement, now maybe it's just me but please tell me they have more to offer than the Giants Causeway and the former home of the Titanic.
Some large rocks on a stoney beach and the shipyard that built the worlds greatest ship which sunk on it's maiden voyage possibly due to bad shipbuilding with inadequate rivets or possibly because of bad seamanship and the failure to build watertight doors insead of big movable walls ?
I am sure they have more to offer the world than that.
The Visit Scotland advert makes the place look very interesting, but where are the best hidden holidays in the UK, Sasha has been here 18years and seen very little of Britain so we would like to get out and about in the good weather this year, who can give us some good ideas and places of interest tips ?
Like all places both the UK and Ireland have some fantastic areas of natural beauty, culture etc. The Titanic experience is part of Northern Ireland's history and is only fitting that it's preserved for future generations.
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Just watched the Visit Ireland tourist advertisement, now maybe it's just me but please tell me they have more to offer than the Giants Causeway and the former home of the Titanic.
Some large rocks on a stoney beach and the shipyard that built the worlds greatest ship which sunk on it's maiden voyage possibly due to bad shipbuilding with inadequate rivets or possibly because of bad seamanship and the failure to build watertight doors insead of big movable walls ?
I am sure they have more to offer the world than that.
The Visit Scotland advert makes the place look very interesting, but where are the best hidden holidays in the UK, Sasha has been here 18years and seen very little of Britain so we would like to get out and about in the good weather this year, who can give us some good ideas and places of interest tips ?
You live in staffs, imho it is possibly one of the most beautiful counties in the whole of the UK. Drive to Leek and walk for miles...or pop over the border to Derbys and walk the Ilam valley, Dovedale, Buxton, Matlock, Ashbourne
or come down to Devon and Cornwall and explore the South West Coast path, the beautiful beaches, the cider and scrumpy...:-)
BTW I visit Ireland a lot, and it has a hell of a deal more to offer...
We get out and about in this area as often as we can, love the dales and the little pubs and places to walk, get naked and take pictures ...... giggles
We have also done the Welsh Coast for the same reason
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If you want to visit somewhere nice in good weather then I suggest somewhere abroad Jed, anywhere?!
Can't seem to get her interested in going abroad, I have lived in Switzerland for 3 yrs, Germany for 6 yrs, spent time in the middle east, africa, and antartic, visited almost all the Countries in Europe from time to time, so am happy to show her Britain, I know some good places, I lived in Scotland for 2 years, 1 year in Wales, 2 years in Northern Ireland and was born in the Lake District but nobody knows everything and getting some good ideas here, N Yorks sounds good.
Scotland is one place we will def visit this summer, apart from having swinging friends there I know how beautifull it is, lived on the West Coast (Troon/Irvine) for a few years but spent time in Aviemore, Garelochead, Outer Hebrides, Isle of Arran and used to visit the Mull of Kintyre once a week when I lived in Nothern Ireland.
Galloway's kinda lovely too if you're going to Scotland, and I know you weren't far away in ayrshire, but the two are quite different....there are some spots on the west coast where tourists, well people even, never seem to go, and they have some of the most beautiful beaches you'll ever see. Just hope the rain stays away. The highlands are always spectacular of course, as a boy I used to fish for trout on the spey, at Kingussie, and the purple mountains, in midsummer, with snowy peaks were a sight to behold....and the highlanders are generally a friendly bunch too.
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Quote by Max777
Get yourself up the M6 to the Lake District. Beautiful part of the country.
My favorite chill out and wind down spot, some awesome walks and views.
Avoid bowness, especially if the weather is nice, you may aswell be in any seaside tourist spot.
Infact unless you are going out on a small boat avoid windermere altogether, the langdales or coniston water are much nicer.
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Get yourself up the M6 to the Lake District. Beautiful part of the country.
My favorite chill out and wind down spot, some awesome walks and views.
Avoid bowness, especially if the weather is nice, you may aswell be in any seaside tourist spot.
Infact unless you are going out on a small boat avoid windermere altogether, the langdales or coniston water are much nicer.
Yes there are some nice spots in the Lake District spoilt a little by my family that live there and there are a few of them, born in the Lake District my Mother (and myself), a few sisters and one or two aunts and uncles are scattered about, they may actually account for most of the population of the District since my Mother was one of 27 brothers and sisters, yes 27, which means there are a few aunts n uncles multiplying thier own families by the year in the region
Sex God
Quote by Max777
Get yourself up the M6 to the Lake District. Beautiful part of the country.
:thumbup:
I was working in Cumbria for a while a couple of years ago. Been up there to meet a colleague today ... forgot how beautiful it was.
Orgasminator
Quote by MidsCouple24
they may actually account for most of the population of the District since my Mother was one of 27 brothers and sisters
:eeek:
Suppose up in the hills there wasnt much else for grandad to do back in the days before motor cars, internet and TV :lol2:
Quote by Big_Fraser
they may actually account for most of the population of the District since my Mother was one of 27 brothers and sisters
:eeek:
Suppose up in the hills there wasnt much else for grandad to do back in the days before motor cars, internet and TV :lol2:
You better believe it they did live in the hills, up from a place called Martin and on past the reservoir and water works, a bus once a week into Dalton or Ulverston and so on, perhaps that's why I am called Jed ........ now let me tell ya a story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed
norfolk! Have lived in this area for a few years now and still amazed by the place. Some of the beaches are wonderful, the forests are places to explore by bike for hour after hour and yes, we have broads (oh yes we do) and we even now have a distillery. And the weather is better in the east.