A few extra days in GB?

On 4/4/04 5:48 pm, in article
[email hidden], "steve" <[email hidden]>

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My wife and I have decided to add a few more days to our
trip to GB, may as well round out the 2nd week! We are
spending the first week in the Yorkshire Dales, then 3
days in London and now want to add 3 more days. Our
preference is for good walking areas (day walks) with good
scenery, some hills and not too crowded. We would drive
from London, stay 3 nights and then have to return to
Heathrow to fly home. I was wondering if anyone here has
any suggestions as to where to go? The South West?,
Dartmoore National Park?, Isle of Wight?,or the South
East? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve.

Dartmoor would be fine; you could get a good couple of days
walking there.

stretch to the Brecon Beacons in Wales - non of these would
involve too much driving. You could look at North Wales but
this would be too much walking for me.

--
Andy Howell Birmingham, UK

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Dartmoor would be fine; you could get a good couple of
days walking

there.

also

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stretch to the Brecon Beacons in Wales - non of these
would involve

too much

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driving. You could look at North Wales but this would be
too much

walking

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for me.

I suspect that the Brecon Beacons would be a lot closer to
London than Dartmoor, pretty much straight along the M4, 3
or so hours?

Andrew

"steve" wrote in message ...

Quoted message said:

My wife and I have decided to add a few more days to our
trip to GB, may as well round out the 2nd week! We are
spending the first week in the Yorkshire Dales, then 3
days in London and now want to add 3 more days. Our
preference is for good walking areas (day walks) with good
scenery, some hills and not too crowded. We would drive
from London, stay 3 nights and then have to return to
Heathrow to fly home. I was wondering if anyone here has
any suggestions as to where to go? The South West?,
Dartmoore National Park?, Isle of Wight?,or the South
East? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Exmoor is nice, varies between flattish and hills, farmland
and moor, I could even recommend a nice little hotel right
in the middle that we stayed in last year. :-) exmoor-exmoor-Open ↗
nationalpark.gov.uk/ will give you some information. and you
would pass Stonehenge on the way if you use the M3/A303/A30
from London.

and you could look at... dartmoor-npa.gov.ukdartmoor-npa.gov.ukOpen ↗ brecon-brecon-Open ↗
beacons.com/hutindex.html

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Whilst in London you could consider:

Hampstead Heath Richmond Park The Chilterns (my favourites -
Turville, round Chequers, Wendover, Bledlow) You can make a
nice walk round Greenwich, too

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Quoted message said:

My wife and I have decided to add a few more days to our
trip to GB, may as well round out the 2nd week! We are
spending the first week in the Yorkshire Dales, then 3
days in London and now want to add 3 more days. Our
preference is for good walking areas (day walks) with good
scenery, some hills and not too crowded. We would drive
from London, stay 3 nights and then have to return to
Heathrow to fly home. I was wondering if anyone here has
any suggestions as to where to go? The South West?,
Dartmoore National Park?, Isle of Wight?,or the South
East? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve.

Brecon Beacons/ Black Mountain(s) for good scenery, some
hills and not too crowded (though there will be a fair
number of people around) within easy driving access from
London. Straight down the M4 westwards. Good for getting
back to Heathrow, too, as you just drive back east along the
M4 until you see the sign!

Base yourselves in Crickhowell for the more eastern side
(there's a campsite, B & Bs and a couple of OK pub-hotels in
town), or, for a slightly less busy area, go out a bit
further west to the Black Mountain (singular...the Black
Mountains, plural, are on the east of the Brecon
Beacons...confusing to the uninitiated!). There are places
to stay around the Glyntawe/ Dan-yr-Ogof Caves area (from
camping through B & B to hotels).

Rob

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We would drive from London, stay 3 nights and then have to
return to Heathrow to fly home. I was wondering if anyone
here has any suggestions as to where to go? The South
West?, Dartmoore National Park?, Isle of Wight?,or the
South East?

Isle of Wight too limited. SW fine, somewhere like Lizard.
SE? Not really. There are walks we do because they are local
but other than the Thames path, nothing you *need* to do.
--
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Isle of Wight too limited. SW fine, somewhere like Lizard.
SE? Not really. There are walks we do because they are
local but other than the Thames path

what about the Lake district?
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Rob Naylor said:

If they've just had 3 days in the Dales, then 3 days in
London, going back up to the Dales and then some seems a
bit of a waste of time on unnecessary travel.

I still reckon South Wales for a slightly more "rounded"
experience of the UK.

Rounded is the right word. Rounded hills in the Dales and
rounded hills in the Beacons. Why not try to include some
rugged scenery? i.e. Snowdonia? Pretty good access from
London, if a little further.

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Rob Naylor said:

If they've just had 3 days in the Dales, then 3 days in
London, going back up to the Dales and then some seems a
bit of a waste of time on unnecessary travel.

I still reckon South Wales for a slightly more "rounded"
experience of the UK.

Rounded is the right word. Rounded hills in the Dales and
rounded hills in the Beacons. Why not try to include some
rugged scenery? i.e. Snowdonia? Pretty good access from
London, if a little further.

They asked for hills, not mountains ;-).

Rob

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They asked for hills, not mountains ;-).

Pointless going to Wales then :-)

Seriously plenty of rounded lumps in North Wales too... I
think the Black Mountains/Brecon idea is sound, not too bad
from London, ditto Exmoor.

Richard Webb

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Whilst in London you could consider:

[...]

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The Chilterns (my favourites - Turville, round Chequers,
Wendover, Bledlow) You can make a nice walk round
Greenwich, too

[...]

I agree about the Chilterns, there's some very pretty
country in the Stonor, Turville, Christmas Common, Pishill
area, with a bit of up and down thrown in for good measure.

And of course, there's always Wiltshire; the Ridgeway and
around Avebury. Avebury is worth a visit in its own right
and there's lots of other prehistory about down there too.

Almost anywhere but London, dreadful, de-humanising place
that it is
<g>.

Regards, Nick.

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My wife and I have decided to add a few more days to our
trip to GB, may as well round out the 2nd week! We are
spending the first week in the Yorkshire Dales, then 3
days in London and now want to add 3 more days. Our
preference is for good walking areas (day walks) with good
scenery, some hills and not too crowded. We would drive
from London, stay 3 nights and then have to return to
Heathrow to fly home. I was wondering if anyone here has
any suggestions as to where to go? The South West?,
Dartmoore National Park?, Isle of Wight?,or the South
East? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve.

That's a rather "restricted" view of GB you'll be getting
:-) Dartmoor has the wild feel, and I have walked on the
South Downs Way which I quite liked, not exactly strenous
but enjoyable.

KRO

Rob Naylor said:

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hills in the Beacons. Why not try to include some rugged
scenery?
i.e. Snowdonia? Pretty good access from London, if a
little further.

They asked for hills, not mountains ;-).

Still great scenery though, even if you don't climb to the
tops.

Paul
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Rob Naylor said:

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hills in the Beacons. Why not try to include some
rugged scenery?
i.e. Snowdonia? Pretty good access from London, if a
little further.

They asked for hills, not mountains ;-).

Still great scenery though, even if you don't climb to
the tops.

I agree about the scenery. I prefer North Wales, personally,
to the Beacons, even when just walking and not climbing. I
was just thinking of the tradeoff between travel time and
complexity and them getting in amongst some decent size
hills. It's less than 3 hours to, say, Crickhowell from
Heathrow area, and around almost 5 hours to, say, Llanberis
(OK, I do it a *teeny* bit faster than that if the traffic
around Brum isn't too bad, but I'm assuming they won't be
thrashing their car. It's also dead easy to get the the
Beacons...just the M4 and then an A road, rather than
faffing about deciding on M6 toll/ no toll, M42/ M5/ M54/ A5
( especially that last, endless seeming bit of the A5).

I think either North Wales or South Wales would be good
choices, though, since it gets our visitors into
another country of the British Isles, with its own
distinctive culture.

I do find the Beacons area a bit more "general visitor-
friendly" than North Wales, which is more geared to
climbers/ more serious walkers, IMO... the campsites seem
better, the B & Bs just that bit more comfortable and the
food in pubs and inns on the whole a bit better...or maybe
I've just been bery lucky in South Wales and unlucky in
North Wales.

Rob

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My wife and I have decided to add a few more days to our
trip to GB, may as well round out the 2nd week! We are
spending the first week in the Yorkshire Dales, then 3
days in London and now want to add 3 more days. Our
preference is for good walking areas (day walks) with
good scenery, some hills and not too crowded. We would
drive from London, stay 3 nights and then have to return
to Heathrow to fly home. I was wondering if anyone here
has any suggestions as to where to go? The South West?,
Dartmoore National Park?, Isle of Wight?,or the South
East? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve.

That's a rather "restricted" view of GB you'll be getting
:-) Dartmoor has the wild feel, and I have walked on the
South Downs Way which I quite liked, not exactly strenous
but enjoyable.

KRO

Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. We were still
undecided when we ran into a snag with the airfare which we
had already purchased. I knew we would be charged to change
it but I thought it was around $75 to $100 US. but as it
turns out it is $200 US which is ridiculous! Flying American
Airlines. So we will probably stick to our original plan but
thanks again for all the suggestions. Steve.