Day / Weekend Trip Inspiration (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by avail@lemmy.world to c/ukcasual@lemmy.world

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Hello all, looking for any recommendations for using up holiday time. Looking for your top tips on day trips (from London) as well as like weekend / several day trips to either the UK or abroad. I'm quite into visiting cities and taking in its history. Thanks in advance!

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[-] brewery@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

For day trips, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge and Canterbury are all easy to get to from London. A bit further but still doable in a day probably, are places like Warwick (also has a fantastic castle), Stratford-upon-Avon (if you like Shakespeare) or Nottingham which are all very historical places.

Longer away so needs more time are Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh which are all great with lots of history.

Flight wise, pretty much any city anywhere in Europe would fit the bill. I'd recommend Belfast, Dublin and Budapest but the real list is so so long!

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I would also recommend Bath. If you're there for longer than a day, a drive out to Bradford on Avon for a cream tea at the Bridge Tea Rooms is lovely, or Bristol harbourside if museums and little food popups are more your thing.

[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Manchester is only 2 hours on the train, if it didn't cost £200 that's easily day trip territory.

[-] brewery@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's really good point! It's often cheaper to fly to Europe than get a train here...

[-] avail@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for these! Nottingham is somewhere I've not done at all or even thought of. The rest, especially Bath, I've not been to for ages, so worth a new visit. Nottingham top of the list I think (hello trams!)

[-] SweetBlueAlienJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If you're into gaming at all, the National Videogame Museum in Nottingham was worth the trip - we went when it was fairly new so I'd imagine it's been expanded a bit since.

[-] avail@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That is totally relevant to my interests!

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that it has moved to Sheffield now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-45360836

[-] avail@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah see I've been to the Sheffield one, so I thought I had missed something!

[-] Oweneds@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

How about the Cotswolds for the weekend? Plenty of lovely villages, farm shops, hikes, pubs, independent shops... Plus Oxford and Blenheim Palace along the way.