South coast holiday ideas
Discussion
Morning chaps, planning my first uk visit for 14 years in July and want to include a week or so along the south coast. Probably starting at my birthplace in Folkestone and want 2 or 3 days in Cornwall.
Coming with my Kiwi girlfriend who hasn't seen anything more than 200 years old lol.
Looking for ideas of things to see and places to stay. Castles, roman sites, romantic hotels and b&bs.
Coming with my Kiwi girlfriend who hasn't seen anything more than 200 years old lol.
Looking for ideas of things to see and places to stay. Castles, roman sites, romantic hotels and b&bs.
As you are a PH member I would suggest a day or two in the New forest with a day at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Then across to (Via Portchester 11th Century castle and church) Portsmouth for the National Armoury museum at Fort Nelson and a trip to the dockyard to see HMS Victory, Mary Rose, Warrior and the historic dockyard. Then east on to Arundel for the castle and cathedral.
From Portsmouth you are a 90 minute train ride to the center of London....
From Portsmouth you are a 90 minute train ride to the center of London....
Speculatore said:
As you are a PH member I would suggest a day or two in the New forest with a day at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Then across to (Via Portchester 11th Century castle and church) Portsmouth for the National Armoury museum at Fort Nelson and a trip to the dockyard to see HMS Victory, Mary Rose, Warrior and the historic dockyard. Then east on to Arundel for the castle and cathedral.
From Portsmouth you are a 90 minute train ride to the center of London....
Porchester castle is 11th century but the Fort it sits in is Roman 3rd century and very impressive, if old is good, then just up the road you also have a 1st century Roman palace ( too big to be a villa) at Fishbourne too. Agree Portsmouth dockyard is well worth a visit, particularly as they have completed the Mary Rose exhibition halls now. From Portsmouth you are a 90 minute train ride to the center of London....
Some good suggestions thanks, most I've seen but Jules hasn't.
Was fishing for those ideas that are a bit less known except to locals.
Also been offered a few days accomodation in an historic house in Portsmouth by a PHer who stayed with me in Oz a few years ago which will be fantastic :-)
Really looking forward to this, can you arrange some good weather for us please? We've just had about 15 weeks straight of over 30 degrees here.
Was fishing for those ideas that are a bit less known except to locals.
Also been offered a few days accomodation in an historic house in Portsmouth by a PHer who stayed with me in Oz a few years ago which will be fantastic :-)
Really looking forward to this, can you arrange some good weather for us please? We've just had about 15 weeks straight of over 30 degrees here.
All the suggestions are a fair way from Folkestone.
What about splitting it up? Spend a night in Rye which is quaint? Then visit Battle on the way through? Possibly Hastings which has lots of sight-seeing (caves, cliff railway, fishing huts, castle etc.) but I wouldn't stay there overnight. Dungeness is a completely odd place worth a visit as it leaves you scratching your head wondering what's going on (quaint old light houses, smaller gauge steam railway, strangely desolate, yet a bloody great nuclear power station as well - completely odd!).
Bodiam Castle is vaguely on route from Folkstone to Battle and is stunning.
Eastbourne is a nice place to stay with good restaurants/hotels etc. all much cheaper than Brighton (I'm biased as I live there) but not that much to visit (pier, seafront, Beachy Head).
We went to Dorset for a weekend and did Corfe Castle, Swanage etc. last year. You will be amazed at how expensive everything is down that way. They really milk the tourist, you have to pay to park everywhere, admissions are expensive etc. We enjoyed it but no way we'll be going back!
When are you coming as obviously you can then tie in events with your visit (e.g. May Day bike run to Hastings is a sight to see with reports of 20,000+ bikes, Airbourne air show in Eastbourne is in August - possibly two Lancasters this year fingers crossed)?
What about splitting it up? Spend a night in Rye which is quaint? Then visit Battle on the way through? Possibly Hastings which has lots of sight-seeing (caves, cliff railway, fishing huts, castle etc.) but I wouldn't stay there overnight. Dungeness is a completely odd place worth a visit as it leaves you scratching your head wondering what's going on (quaint old light houses, smaller gauge steam railway, strangely desolate, yet a bloody great nuclear power station as well - completely odd!).
Bodiam Castle is vaguely on route from Folkstone to Battle and is stunning.
Eastbourne is a nice place to stay with good restaurants/hotels etc. all much cheaper than Brighton (I'm biased as I live there) but not that much to visit (pier, seafront, Beachy Head).
We went to Dorset for a weekend and did Corfe Castle, Swanage etc. last year. You will be amazed at how expensive everything is down that way. They really milk the tourist, you have to pay to park everywhere, admissions are expensive etc. We enjoyed it but no way we'll be going back!
When are you coming as obviously you can then tie in events with your visit (e.g. May Day bike run to Hastings is a sight to see with reports of 20,000+ bikes, Airbourne air show in Eastbourne is in August - possibly two Lancasters this year fingers crossed)?
Update if anyone is interested, we arrive on Sat 12/7, first 4 nights in Camberley near where my brother lives, doing a canal boat day, Harry Potter day and a day in London.
Then a night at Leeds castle "glamping"... 2 nights with friends near Portsmouth then 4 nights at Polraen in Looe, Cornwall, 2 nights at Bath Lodge castle then off to France.
My birthday in Paris and a few nights with my Aunt near Lyon before back to Surrey for the last 2 nights.
Going to be fairly busy lol
Then a night at Leeds castle "glamping"... 2 nights with friends near Portsmouth then 4 nights at Polraen in Looe, Cornwall, 2 nights at Bath Lodge castle then off to France.
My birthday in Paris and a few nights with my Aunt near Lyon before back to Surrey for the last 2 nights.
Going to be fairly busy lol
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