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alexseanchai) wrote2014-04-28 08:28 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2014-04-28 08:28 pm
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help me daydream slash plan!
So I have realized that I save money better when I'm saving for something, something more exciting than 'my own apartment' and more concrete and, frankly, apparently attainable than 'getting out of debt'. Therefore I have decided I am saving for a month two weeks in the British Isles. Ireland, England, Wales. (Not sure if Scotland and Northern Ireland too.) Date to be determined, but this is definitely number three on the priority list, behind 'getting out of debt' and 'my own apartment', so we're talking a few years out at least.
Off the top of my head, places I can think of that I want to visit are Dublin (nowhere specific off the top of my head, but I know there's exciting things in the city), London (ditto), various family-history-pertinent spots in Ireland that I can't actually name without asking my dad the amateur genealogist (but Dublin's among them and I think so is London), Cadair Idris in Wales (Wiki it and look at the first paragraph of the 'myths' section; also, there is a reason this post has a music thingy), Stonehenge, Blarney Stone, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Where else in the British Isles, dear readers, should I put on my list of 'places I absolutely must see while touring the British Isles'? Other than 'some lovely little bed and breakfast somewhere in scenic Ireland where I can sit and write my heart out', of course. :)
Off the top of my head, places I can think of that I want to visit are Dublin (nowhere specific off the top of my head, but I know there's exciting things in the city), London (ditto), various family-history-pertinent spots in Ireland that I can't actually name without asking my dad the amateur genealogist (but Dublin's among them and I think so is London), Cadair Idris in Wales (Wiki it and look at the first paragraph of the 'myths' section; also, there is a reason this post has a music thingy), Stonehenge, Blarney Stone, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Where else in the British Isles, dear readers, should I put on my list of 'places I absolutely must see while touring the British Isles'? Other than 'some lovely little bed and breakfast somewhere in scenic Ireland where I can sit and write my heart out', of course. :)
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Cambridge is less than an hour from London by train. From Cambridge, I can drive to the Uffington White Horse in 2-3 hours, with about an hour extra travel time to divert to the Rollrights on the way. From Uffington to Avebury is another hour or so, and from Avebury to Stonehenge about another hour.
Or skip it all and go directly to Stonehenge is 3-4 hours from Cambridge.
From Avebury/Stonehenge to Machynlleth is probably 4-5 hours driving.
From London-Orkney is about a day: leave London in the morning and arrive in Thurso in the evening and get the ferry the next morning. Or take the sleeper overnight to Inverness, and then 2-3 hours on the train to Thurso and then the ferry. Could be faster by plane.