Best things to see/places to go in England/Wales outside London...

[Finding Deebo]

Say you wanted to road trip around and had like 2-3 weeks, what would you see/do? Excluding Scotland, for a separate trip...

 

[Eiffel-sixtyFight]

Stone henge.

There's a guy in a hi vis jacket who'll tell you not to touch em but he wont do nothing.

 

[Jose Beehive]

Right now, not very much cos of Covid Lockdown... Formby is nice if you like red squirrels and Sand dunes.
Yorkshire sculpture park is one of my favourite places.
Wales has some nice mountains and lots of sheep.

 

[Finding Deebo]

Right now, not very much cos of Covid Lockdown... Formby is nice if you like red squirrels and Sand dunes.
Yorkshire sculpture park is one of my favourite places.
Wales has some nice mountains and lots of sheep.

Assuming no Lockdown, of course....Just making post-Covid Plans. I've been to London and Bristol, caught Clamidiya in Bristol....

 

[HARRISON_3]

Burma's a war zone

 

[Jose Beehive]

Assuming no Lockdown, of course....Just making post-Covid Plans

Sweet!
I'm very familiar with the Yorkshire part of the east coast, London, Manchester, Nottingham ... A little of Sheffield, Liverpool and Leeds too. I could try and answer any questions with regards to any of those places if you needed.

 

[Finding Deebo]

Right now, not very much cos of Covid Lockdown... Formby is nice if you like red squirrels and Sand dunes.
Yorkshire sculpture park is one of my favourite places.
Wales has some nice mountains and lots of sheep.

I'd prefer nice sheep and lots of mountains if you catch my drift.....like a bachelor in New Zealand.

 

[Rand M Arthur]

For old world history: Oxford, Cambridge, York, Durham, Bristol

If you like kickball or music (EDM and/or rock) then Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool all directly border each other. They have it a plethora of options.

The 1st industrial revolution started there and there is a lot of history from that era.

Bletchley Park is near Oxford, that is where Alan Turing invented the computer. He spent his younger years learning the University of Cambridge and his later years tenured at the University of Manchester, so both places have stuff related to him. Likewise for other famous British scientists, if you research which university they were at.

When editing Das Kapital, Friedrich Engels was an industrialist living in Manchester, so likewise, there is a decent bit of socialist history there. As well as the foundations of the Labour Movement, after the Peterloo massacre when working men protested for the right to vote and were charged down and killed by cavalry.

Finally, if you are into celtic history, stick to Wales, Cornwall or Cumbria, as they managed to save some of their celtic culture from the Roman, Viking and French invaders over the centuries. If you are into germanic culture, it is most evident in Yorkshire and Northumbria.

 

[Jose Beehive]

I'd prefer nice sheep and lots of mountains if you catch my drift.....like a bachelor in New Zealand.

Nice, Scotland is vastly superior for that kind of thing, Wales has some cool spots Snowden is fun.
A lot of England's natural areas are pretty flat and boring, there's a few spots but nothing I'd shout about.

Peak and Lake Districts are pretty beautiful though.

 

[dracul]

we are in a lockdown

stay out unless you come on a dinghy

 

[Rand M Arthur]

Nice, Scotland is vastly superior for that kind of thing, Wales has some cool spots Snowden is fun.
A lot of England's natural areas are pretty flat and boring, there's a few spots but nothing I'd shout about.

Scafell Pike is better than Snowdonia, but not as good as Ben Nevis

 

[Jose Beehive]

Scafell Pike is better than Snowdonia, but not as good as Ben Nevis

Maybe, I've never been, Lake District is lovely though .. my climber friends always travel Wales for shorter climbing/camping journeys and Scotland for longer ones.

 

[Finding Deebo]

For old world history: Oxford, Cambridge, York, Durham, Bristol

If you like kickball or music (EDM and/or rock) then Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool all directly border each other. They have it a plethora of options.

The 1st industrial revolution started there and there is a lot of history from that era.

Bletchley Park is near Oxford, that is where Alan Turing invented the computer. He spent his younger years learning the University of Cambridge and his later years tenured at the University of Manchester, so both places have stuff related to him. Likewise for other famous British scientists, if you research which university they were at.

When editing Das Kapital, Friedrich Engels was an industrialist living in Manchester, so likewise, there is a decent bit of socialist history there. As well as the foundations of the Labour Movement, after the Peterloo massacre when working men protested for the right to vote and were charged down and killed by cavalry.

Finally, if you are into celtic history, stick to Wales, Cornwall or Cumbria, as they managed to save some of their celtic culture from the Roman, Viking and French invaders over the centuries. If you are into germanic culture, it is most evident in Yorkshire and Northumbria.

kickball you mean soccer?

 

[Kung Fu Flid]

Peak district and the Lake district are excellent for scenery.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Wales - Cardiff, outside of lockdown, is a cool city to base up in and go drinking / partying for 1-2 nights. Snowdonia / Brecon Beacons for a couple of days camping/hiking is decent. North Wales has some lovely beaches / seaside towns and we get quite good surf on the Welsh coast but the water is arctic.

 

[MDSL]

I really like the Cliffs in the south of England like Seven Sisters but that's just like a days visit.
Cardiff as others mentioned is real nice.
Would also visit Liverpool just to pass a day surrounded by people sounding like Darren Till

 

[monkeyrhythm]

Liverpool on a Saturday afternoon. You'll see loads of women walking around the shops in dressing gowns with their hair in curlers, halfway ready to go out on the town that evening, not giving a fuck. It's a fascinating sight, pretty much unique to that part of the country/world.

 

[therealdope]

Stone henge.

There's a guy in a hi vis jacket who'll tell you not to touch em but he wont do nothing.

I'd skip it, it's only 11 inches tall IRL.

 

[therealdope]

Rand Arthur basically nailed it. I was going to say Oxford, Cambridge, Cornwall, Bath.

 

[Tone C]

Liverpool on a Saturday afternoon. You'll see loads of women walking around the shops in dressing gowns with their hair in curlers, halfway ready to go out on the town that evening, not giving a fuck. It's a fascinating sight, pretty much unique to that part of the country/world.

Lol, I remember being up there for my first lfc game and seeing this and being WTF...?