Your favourite places in the UK.

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Prometheus

Bath, I love that place because it somehow feels like it belongs to a bygone age without looking tacky. And I loved The Moles Club I don't know if it even exists anymore. I haven't been to Bath in a long time it might be a right dump now (bit of a disclaimer there) but I hope it isn't.

Windsor. This is a weird one, I don't know what it is about that place it just has a 'feelgood' factor for me, particularly Windsor Castle.

Manchester. This is more the people than the place. I wasn't there long (two days) but everywhere I went I found people were easygoing and easy to talk to even if the town itself is no work of art (I'm talking about the centre here).

Stamford Bridge: the best football team of all time play there, what's not to like?

I'll probably think of more...

Sincere apologies if I have profoundly offended anyone because their town/street/house isn't on my faves list.

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RexiMember 10 years

Bath - coz it's beautiful (agrees with Prom)

Aldeburgh - because I had one of the best weekends ever in my life there a hundred or so years back

Chester - been there once with my mum, want to go back with hubby

Mudeford - because we always go there for days out in the summer, I just love, love, love the place

and Oxford - coz I live there, so it's gotta be good, huh??

3/6/112:41 PM

PrometheusMember

The only place I've been to on your list Rexi (apart from Bath) is Oxford. I was only there for a day but I certainly don't remember any 'town hate' on the way back home so it must be alright

3/6/112:53 PM

RexiMember 10 years

'town hate'???

We are far too posh for that malarky

3/6/112:56 PM

Karma_Member

The drive along the M4 is nice. A lot posher than the M40 and waaaay more posher than the M1!

Bath, Bristol, Weston Super Mare, Hungerford, Gloucester....and all those sorts of places. (And Oxford is nice as is Ely).

3/6/113:00 PM

Former Member

Lytham

Stayed in Ansdell.

3/6/113:00 PM

spongebob squarepantsMember

my home town..............i love it here..........couple of hours from london.........beaches about 10 minutes away......countryside about 20 minutes away........so you get the best of everything.......i wouldn't want to live anywhere else....

spongey:.tourist information manager for poole & bournemouth....

3/6/113:01 PM

RexiMember 10 years

Originally Posted by spongebob squarepants:

spongey:.tourist information manager for poole & bournemouth....

ahhhhh, that reminds me, Southbourne ... I love the place .. all quiet, but not far from Bournemouth

3/6/113:02 PM

spongebob squarepantsMember

yep it's just a couple of miles away rexi........

3/6/113:04 PM

PrometheusMember

Karma I liked Bristol too for the same reasons as Manchester. I just like the people. I also get on well with Geordies but have never been to Newcastle so have no clue what it's like.

3/6/113:06 PM

CariadMember

The Gower, Sotherndown, Cardiff, Fowey and London.

3/6/113:07 PM

Former Member

Home.

3/6/113:07 PM

RexiMember 10 years

Originally Posted by spongebob squarepants:

yep it's just a couple of miles away rexi........

My sister has a flat there spongey ... I go there often, I love the place

3/6/113:07 PM

Former Member

Appin isn't bad either.

West Coast Scotland

3/6/113:08 PM

RexiMember 10 years

Originally Posted by Cariad:

The Gower

Oh yes ... how could I forget that - beautiful place

3/6/113:08 PM

Former Member

Cornwall - anywhere in Cornwall

3/6/113:11 PM

Karma_Member

Originally Posted by Prometheus:

Karma I liked Bristol too for the same reasons as Manchester. I just like the people. I also get on well with Geordies but have never been to Newcastle so have no clue what it's like.

I love the places. Cos I grew up in the concrete jungle I spent my time kinda blinkered to anything historic and didn't appreciate any architecture that was available to see in London. Parts of Glasgow are nice and Loch Lomond is beautiful. Edinburgh's ok but a little too plastic (too touristy).

3/6/113:12 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Originally Posted by Rexi:

Mudeford - because we always go there for days out in the summer, I just love, love, love the place

You've just taken me back years, Rexi. My 2 boys used to love hanging over the side and catching crabs (ooh err missus and all that). If the sun was shining, it was the best way to while away the day.

Bath, I like but I prefer to stay out of town at somewhere like Castle Coombe - it's a really pretty village. I like Wiltshire in general and all around that area...the Forest of Dean too, although I haven't been that way in years.

Spongey's the luckiest one though - Dorset is beautiful, as is a lot of Hampshire and the New Forest.

My favourite place in Scotland is Skibo/Dornoch. The drive along from Inverness is exactly how I imagined the highlands of Scotland to look like.

3/6/113:12 PM

spongebob squarepantsMember

Originally Posted by Issy:

Cornwall - anywhere in Cornwall

i love polperro ..........

3/6/113:13 PM

slimfernMember VIP

Edinburgh - bloody freezing but very friendly & full of character
Cambridge, Oxford, Gloucestershire & Devon - beautiful
Norfolk - flat brilliant for bike rides

3/6/113:13 PM

Former Member

Originally Posted by spongebob squarepants:

Originally Posted by Issy:

Cornwall - anywhere in Cornwall

i love polperro ..........

Just a wonderful county...

3/6/113:13 PM

Karma_Member

I really wanted to like Wales but I've had so many rucks with the bloody toll machine it kinda put me off.

3/6/113:14 PM

Former Member

Actually I am quite fond of London... all around Westminster and the Thames.

Greenwich is lovely as well.

3/6/113:14 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

I've had some memorable nights out in Whitely Bay and lived to tell the tale.

3/6/113:15 PM

Former Member

Originally Posted by Karma_:

I really wanted to like Wales but I've had so many rucks with the bloody toll machine it kinda put me off.

I have no trouble disliking Wales.

3/6/113:15 PM

suzybeanMember

Originally Posted by spongebob squarepants:

spongey:.tourist information manager for poole & bournemouth....

Oxford and then out to the Cotswolds, Loch Lomand, Tenby and Durham.

3/6/113:15 PM

CariadMember

Originally Posted by Karma_:

I really wanted to like Wales but I've had so many rucks with the bloody toll machine it kinda put me off.

We charge high to keep the riffraff out hon.

There are other ways to get in though - it's only South Wales that has the toll really. But goodness it's gorgeous once you get past Cardiff.

3/6/113:17 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Originally Posted by Issy:

Originally Posted by Karma_:

I really wanted to like Wales but I've had so many rucks with the bloody toll machine it kinda put me off.

I have no trouble disliking Wales.

The Mumbles and surrounding area are meant to be gorgeous.
Never been but think I ought to considering one of the outlaws is from that way.

3/6/113:17 PM

Former Member

St Andrews

3/6/113:17 PM

spongebob squarepantsMember

i've had some top nights out in cardiff..........loved it...

3/6/113:18 PM

suzybeanMember

Originally Posted by Issy:

Actually I am quite fond of London... all around Westminster and the Thames.

Greenwich is lovely as well.

I always take it for granted, I'm a 5 minute walk from Westminster and can hear Big Ben from the back of my house. I also like the villagey bits of London. Ealing, where I grew up and where I used to live in Hampstead.

3/6/113:19 PM

PrometheusMember

Originally Posted by Karma_:

Originally Posted by Prometheus:

Karma I liked Bristol too for the same reasons as Manchester. I just like the people. I also get on well with Geordies but have never been to Newcastle so have no clue what it's like.

Architecturally or just aesthetically I love places like Bath and Windsor they're a joy to walk around in. Also some place in Surrey that ends in Hill it's a small place that I can never remember. I'm not really into picturesque (i.e. countryside etc). I like places of historic interest too but once is enough for me with those places.

3/6/113:19 PM

PrometheusMember

On Wales: I've only been there once. I went home confused. Forgot to bring a translator

3/6/113:21 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Do you mean Box Hill, Prom. Fabulous views.

3/6/113:22 PM

Karma_Member

Originally Posted by Cariad:

Originally Posted by Karma_:

I really wanted to like Wales but I've had so many rucks with the bloody toll machine it kinda put me off.

We charge high to keep the riffraff out hon.

There are other ways to get in though - it's only South Wales that has the toll really. But goodness it's gorgeous once you get past Cardiff.

It didn't succeed keeping me out

The main bridge into Wales is a delight to drive over and once I was in it was fine, but it was just that bloody machine (and the people operating it) that I have had issues with!

3/6/113:22 PM

Karma_Member

Originally Posted by suzybean:

Ealing, where I grew up

Snap! Although Ealing's too plastic now, too. Nothing like it used to be.

3/6/113:23 PM

Former Member

Originally Posted by suzybean:

Originally Posted by Issy:

Actually I am quite fond of London... all around Westminster and the Thames.

Greenwich is lovely as well.

I love the history of London. There was a programme on a couple of years ago about it. I didn't realise that the town we know today is actually built on top of old streets ( sorry not making sense). So London has grown upwards in every sense of the word!
The river Fleet is buried beneath the city.Apparently there are a few rivers buried beneath the city.
I love the history of the underground as well . There is a really interesting internet site which shows where all the old stations are.

3/6/113:24 PM

CariadMember

Originally Posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:

The Mumbles and surrounding area are meant to be gorgeous.
Never been but think I ought to considering one of the outlaws is from that way.

This was my local beach as a child...Llangennith - arse end of the Gower. Wonderful.

3/6/113:24 PM

Former Member

Dornock .I love spending time there

3/6/113:27 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Originally Posted by Cariad:

Originally Posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:

The Mumbles and surrounding area are meant to be gorgeous.
Never been but think I ought to considering one of the outlaws is from that way.

This was my local beach as a child...Llangennith - arse end of the Gower. Wonderful.
Burry Holms, Gower

It looks a lot like parts of North Cornwall, Cariad.

Erin: I saw a whole load of seals along the coast around Dornoch - was well excited

It occurred to me that prior to that day I'd only ever seen them in captivity or at a rescue sanctuary...

3/6/113:30 PM

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