It's gorgeous up there. Hopefully you can take a day train/bus so you can see the landscape along the way. Freaking beautiful.
Ooooh... I have every intention of flying into Inverness and then taking a train closer to Loch Ness. Exeter is in, like, the opposite corner of Britain from all that stuff.
As for Warwick and Salisbury, I can remember going to a whole bunch of castles and cathedrals, but those two were my absolute favorites. Warwick just had this... feel. Logically I knew it had been renovated, but it didn't SEEM like it, like so many of the others did. It seemed so much more natural than the others, and it was big with the pretty. You could really go all around it, too. And it seems like they had people in period costumes and such on the grounds...
*takes notes* Sounds awesome. I'm all for castles.
I honestly don't know if there's anything else near them, other than their respective towns - I'm pretty sure we did them on the same day trip, though... Perhaps the same time we did Oxford (which was actually a big disappointment, imo - not much to see at all).
Whoa, same day? They must be really close. That would be good...we could do them in the same weekend, then. Oxford was disappointing, huh? I want to go see all the pretty spires and buildings, but it did look like it would only take an hour or two to get all the pictures I want.
The details are a bit fuzzy, 'cause it's been a while - 12 years this summer, actually. Holy crap, 12 years! Damn, I'm getting OLD!!
I know that feeling.
It might work that you could get to the general area and hit a few different places, maybe with a day tour or something. I'm not sure where you are exactly, and how much time you'll have, but if you get the chance, I definitely recommend them.
Hmmm. We've been contemplating tours, 'cause travelling on your own tends to take up half a day, what with waiting for trains, etc. Especially if it was a day tour, and we could arrange our own hostel-fied housing, that would be good. Exeter is probably a good hour and a half by train from Salisbury, although I don't know for sure, so I imagine we'd want to leave on a Saturday morning, do one thing, stay somewhere Saturday night, do the other thing, then go back on Sunday afternoon/evening. (Exeter is in Devon, in the southwest tip of England. One county east of Cornwall, which is the westernmost county in the whole of England.)
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Date: 2005-02-06 01:41 am (UTC)Ooooh... I have every intention of flying into Inverness and then taking a train closer to Loch Ness. Exeter is in, like, the opposite corner of Britain from all that stuff.
As for Warwick and Salisbury, I can remember going to a whole bunch of castles and cathedrals, but those two were my absolute favorites. Warwick just had this... feel. Logically I knew it had been renovated, but it didn't SEEM like it, like so many of the others did. It seemed so much more natural than the others, and it was big with the pretty. You could really go all around it, too. And it seems like they had people in period costumes and such on the grounds...
*takes notes* Sounds awesome. I'm all for castles.
I honestly don't know if there's anything else near them, other than their respective towns - I'm pretty sure we did them on the same day trip, though... Perhaps the same time we did Oxford (which was actually a big disappointment, imo - not much to see at all).
Whoa, same day? They must be really close. That would be good...we could do them in the same weekend, then. Oxford was disappointing, huh? I want to go see all the pretty spires and buildings, but it did look like it would only take an hour or two to get all the pictures I want.
The details are a bit fuzzy, 'cause it's been a while - 12 years this summer, actually. Holy crap, 12 years! Damn, I'm getting OLD!!
I know that feeling.
It might work that you could get to the general area and hit a few different places, maybe with a day tour or something. I'm not sure where you are exactly, and how much time you'll have, but if you get the chance, I definitely recommend them.
Hmmm. We've been contemplating tours, 'cause travelling on your own tends to take up half a day, what with waiting for trains, etc. Especially if it was a day tour, and we could arrange our own hostel-fied housing, that would be good. Exeter is probably a good hour and a half by train from Salisbury, although I don't know for sure, so I imagine we'd want to leave on a Saturday morning, do one thing, stay somewhere Saturday night, do the other thing, then go back on Sunday afternoon/evening. (Exeter is in Devon, in the southwest tip of England. One county east of Cornwall, which is the westernmost county in the whole of England.)