What's your favourite UK destination?

[Jaguar steve]

spookly said:

Yipper said:

West London for business and leisure.
West Scotland for scenery, wildlife, peace and quiet.

Honourable mentions to deepest Cornwall, Scilly, Guernsey, Solent, Brecons, Snowdonia, Chilterns, Cotswolds, Blackpool Tower / seafront, Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, Farne Islands, Lake District, IoM, Giant's Causeway, St Kilda, Cairngorms and Orkney.

You really actually said Blackpool seafront :-) You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You should be careful.

I went to Blackpool once. I won't be making the same mistake again.

I see your Blackpool and raise you Clacton and Jaywick.

[bloomen]

If I had to settle on one place it would be Orkney, but there are so many. Incredible there's so much variety in so little space compared to elsewhere.

[Stuart70]

Jaguar steve said:

lucido grigio said:

Jaguar steve said:

The long stay car park at Stanstead airport.

Dover,I take the car with me.

The pospect of leaving the UK for a while almost makes up for the experience of driving through Dover to do so.

I take the tunnel, so that I don't have to (visit Dover) - all the wins...

[Robertj21a]

Jaguar steve said:

spookly said:

Yipper said:

West London for business and leisure.
West Scotland for scenery, wildlife, peace and quiet.

Honourable mentions to deepest Cornwall, Scilly, Guernsey, Solent, Brecons, Snowdonia, Chilterns, Cotswolds, Blackpool Tower / seafront, Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, Farne Islands, Lake District, IoM, Giant's Causeway, St Kilda, Cairngorms and Orkney.

You really actually said Blackpool seafront :-) You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You should be careful.

I went to Blackpool once. I won't be making the same mistake again.

I see your Blackpool and raise you Clacton and Jaywick.

Good heavens, those 3 have brought me out in near palpitations. I fear to ask what other town warrants an inclusion as the fourth dump.

[marcosgt]

I must admit the Isle of Mull and it's little neighbour Iona were pretty great.

I've not ventured to the Hebrides, but that'd be a recommendation for you.

Places like Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, the Lakes and North Wales are all lovely, but tend to get very busy when the weather's good.

I grew up in East Dorset and it's a lovely place when the Grocks go home

M

[strummerville]

No mention of North Norfolk! Lovely coastlines and that Norfolk Sky...

[Robertj21a]

swerni said:

Esher's nice, but not really a holiday location.

I wonder how many won't get that.......

[Turn7]

South Devon is ok.

West Coast of Scotland is awesome.

North Devon is a bit more raw scenery wise.

Exmoor is very nice.

Most UK seaside towns are not the greatest of places sadly.

This is still, despite the Govts plans, a very green and pleasant land. Its just finding the nice bits is getting harder.

Ive not really seen much of N Yorks Moors and surrounds, but I imagaine them to be very nice.

Lake district just gets full at peak season.

[lucido grigio]

Robertj21a said:

swerni said:

Esher's nice, but not really a holiday location.

I wonder how many won't get that.......

I get it,spoiler alert.

Scilly Isles is a pair of roundabouts.
Isles of Scilly are offshore of Cornwall.

[Wacky Racer]

Whitby/North York Moors

Swanage/Corfe Castle

Broadway/Chipping Campden

Hawes/Leyburn

Dungeness/Romney

Tintagel

Barmouth/Porthmadoc

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

So far, Pembrokeshire. If I had to narrow down further then Newgale and Little Haven. Currently looking at statics in Snowdonia, so let's see if that takes it over!

[Yipper]

spookly said:

Yipper said:

West London for business and leisure.
West Scotland for scenery, wildlife, peace and quiet.

Honourable mentions to deepest Cornwall, Scilly, Guernsey, Solent, Brecons, Snowdonia, Chilterns, Cotswolds, Blackpool Tower / seafront, Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, Farne Islands, Lake District, IoM, Giant's Causeway, St Kilda, Cairngorms and Orkney.

You really actually said Blackpool seafront :-) You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You should be careful.

I went to Blackpool once. I won't be making the same mistake again.

Blackpool Tower is one of Britain's 10 best and classic buildings. Much underrated (due to the country's barely controlled snobbery).

Can't beat chips and ice cream on Blackpool seafront. Once fracking takes off after Brexit, expect Blackpool to gentrify swiftly and become trendy.

[Stickyfinger]

Dorset coast south east of Dorchester anytime off season.....day shopping midweek in Bath.

[battered]

Robertj21a said:

Good heavens, those 3 have brought me out in near palpitations. I fear to ask what other town warrants an inclusion as the fourth dump.

If you are looking for abandoned seaside towns Grimsby and Cleethorpes have to be contenders.

Avoid them, go to the N York Moors or Northumberland. I like Pembrokeshire too.

[Robertj21a]

Yipper said:

Blackpool Tower is one of Britain's 10 best and classic buildings. Much underrated (due to the country's barely controlled snobbery).

Can't beat chips and ice cream on Blackpool seafront. Once fracking takes off after Brexit, expect Blackpool to gentrify swiftly and become trendy.

I have this terrible fear that you may not be joking.......

While I'd agree about the delights of the Blackpool Tower itself, I really would struggle to find anything positive to say about the rest of Blackpool. Like many coastal towns it has suffered badly from significant numbers of people on benefits, drunks, druggies etc but also has little else on offer anyway. Other than the seafront, after it's extensive make-over, it's all a terrible dump.

[Jaguar steve]

Robertj21a said:

Yipper said:

Blackpool Tower is one of Britain's 10 best and classic buildings. Much underrated (due to the country's barely controlled snobbery).

Can't beat chips and ice cream on Blackpool seafront. Once fracking takes off after Brexit, expect Blackpool to gentrify swiftly and become trendy.

I have this terrible fear that you may not be joking.......

While I'd agree about the delights of the Blackpool Tower itself, I really would struggle to find anything positive to say about the rest of Blackpool. Like many coastal towns it has suffered badly from significant numbers of people on benefits, drunks, druggies etc but also has little else on offer anyway. Other than the seafront, after it's extensive make-over, it's all a terrible dump.

Pretty much all of the built environment - with a few notable exceptions of course - in the UK qualifies for inclusion in the terrible dump category.

Chuck that into the mix of unpredictable and mostly unpleasant weather, woefully inadequate facilities, hopelessly optimistic marketing and terminal overcrowding of some grotty worn out attraction and the particularity mean spirited and very pernicious British tendency of ripping the holidaymaker and traveler off at every opportunity it's no surprise to me that every holiday flight abroad I've ever been on is full and there's never any free seats in the departure lounge at 4am at any one of London's airports.

[Captain Benzo]

Glenmore, just outside Aviemore, a bit south of Inverness.

i learned to walk there, sail there, ride my bike there. the scenery, irrespective of the weather is breathtaking.

i'd move in a heartbeat, fortunately it's only an hour or so away. so much to do with a young family.

Aviemore itself can be a bit of a hole in places, but that whole area is very close to my heart.

[GT03ROB]

Wasdale Head.....

....cracking drive over Hardknott Pass, then down along Wastwater, finishing just under Scafell

[yellowbentines]

Turn7 said:

West Coast of Scotland is awesome.

As someone from what we might term the West of Scotland (Glasgow), Im curious as to what area those who've posted West of Scotland refer to - it could be anywhere from Ayr to Stornoway!

Isle of Lewis/Harris for me, some of the best beaches in the UK.

[GetCarter]

Vocal Minority said:

GreatGranny said:

Buttermere in the Lake District

Oh for gods sake will you shush!

The fewer people that know about that place the better!

That boat has sailed I'm afraid. I lived a few miles from there - fab in winter, but way too crowded for the rest of the year.