Friday, September 14, 2012

Mah trip to Engerland

RIGHT! Here is my itinerary for the trip to England & Scotland Sep 18 - Oct 30. Rooms are booked in all these places, but most of them can be cancelled, some up to the day before. Changes may still come if I take a fancy to an area or something disgusts me, you never know.

Having spent the last 48 hours with a road map of England I have reached the conclusion that even if I live to see a hundred, I will never be able to see all the things this little island has to offer. Britain is chock full of interesting stuff, from the tiniest, dusty ruins to the grandest of palaces and everything in between.

Add to that the rivers, forests, mountains, coastlines and dales and the everyday occurrence of cozy pubs, ancient houses, weird and wonderful festivals and events and you have a lifetime of Britain before you. Being more or less barred from a visa-free entry into the United States for the next six months, I can think of nothing better to do with my time.

In the itinerary below, the parts spent in Scotland are in italics while the parts spent in Wales are in bold.

Itinerary:

Sep 18: Oslo - Crawley (Gatwick)
Sep 19: Crawley - Canterbury - Deal
Sep 20: Deal - Margate -Sheerness - Gillingham
Sep 21: Gillingham - Gravesend - Feering
Sep 22: Feering - Colchester - Clacton
Sep 23: Clacton - Bury St Edmunds
Sep 24-25: Bury St Edmunds with trips around East England
Sep 26: Bury St. Edmunds - Lincoln
Sep 27-28: Lincoln, with trips around Lincolnshire
Sep 29: Lincoln - Hackness
Sep 30: Hackness - Pickering - Durham
Oct 1: Durham - Brampton, basically following Hadrian's Wall
Oct 2: Brampton - Creetown
Oct 3: Creetown - Wigtown - Stranraer
Oct 4: Stranraer
Oct 5: Stranraer - Ardrossan - Arran. Ferry to the isle of Arran, wheeee!
Oct 6-7: Isle of Arran
Oct 8: Arran - Ardrossan - Inchree
Oct 9: Inchree - Stirling
Oct 10: Stirling
Oct 11: Stirling - Coldstream
Oct 12: Coldstream, trips around the Border area
Oct 13: Coldstream
- the coast - Durham. Bamburg Castle again, def!
Oct 14: Durham - Windermere
Oct 15: Windermere. A ride through the western Lake District.
OCt 16: Windermere - Morecambe
Oct 17: Morecambe
Oct 18: Morecambe - Llandudno
Oct 19: Llandudno. Drive around Anglesey, def.
Oct 20: Llandudno - Aberystwyth
Oct 21: Aberystwyth – St. Florence
Oct 22: St. Florence - Swansea
Oct 23: Swansea
Oct 24: Swansea
- Westbury
Oct 25-26: Westbury. Drives around Wiltshire. Wincanton, def.
Oct 27: Westbury - Totton
Oct 28: Totton. Drives around the New Forest.
Oct 29: Totton - Hartfield - Crawley. Return to Winnie the Pooh places.
Oct 30: Crawley - Oslo. Back to dreary old Norway. Sigh.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No visit to birmingham, also when will you get round to answering the email I sent you about the UK union possibly breaking up, please as much wit as you can spare and enjoy your trip, msull.