What's your favourite UK destination?

[Steve Campbell]

Northumberland : coastline anywhere around Alnwick, inland anywhere around Kielder.

[anonymous-user]

The Dog and Duck, on the corner of Frith Street and Bateman Street.

[Turn7]

Valid point,I was referring to the Wester Ross area....

[Turn7]

Valid point,I was referring to the Wester Ross area....

[Loose_Cannon]

As a generalisation;

Draw a line between Blackpool and Hull; anywhere north of that.
DRaw a line between Bristol and Southampton; anywhere west of that.

Specifically; Wiltshire (Bath and Bradford on Avon etc), Northumberland (Bamburgh etc), N Yorks (anywhere) , Dorset (not investigated enough, to be remedied), New Forest (a bit busy).

[SimonTheSailor]

Portscatho Cornwall - childhood memories, lovely little Cornish fishing village. Went back after 30 years - hadn't changed a bit. One local store, one butcher, one post office, one pub.

Where GetCarter lives and the surrounding roads - for your driving pleasure and entertainment.

Yorkshire Moors.

We're lucky really aren't we - lots of beautiful places to go !!

[hyphen]

Brighton

[Morningside]

hyphen said:

Brighton

I hope its tidied it self up a bit. I went there 15 years ago and found it had a disturbing seedy underbelly to the place. Walking down towards the beach there was a phonebox covered in shall we say advertising material(!) that was slowly being removed. Two hours later it was covered again.

North Norfolk. Which is strange considering we live in Suffolk and about an hour away but so peaceful.

Cornwall. My go-to destination. I just love the place but just that little too far to drive these days. But this year we are off to South Devon so that'll be nice and I'm sure we will hop over the boarder. Plus a visit to Trago Mills will be on the list

Lincolnshire. Odd one this as some of it can be really crud but I do love a good wartime museum and Linconshire seems to have loads to visit.

I would say Scotland but never been. Kept promising that I would but never got there.

[Vocal Minority]

GetCarter said:

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.

Winter is when that part of the world is at its best anyway (its when I always went as a child - there is something disconcerting about a warm and sunny lakes)

[GetCarter]

Vocal Minority said:

GetCarter said:

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.

Winter is when that part of the world is at its best anyway (its when I always went as a child - there is something disconcerting about a warm and sunny lakes)

Completely agree with that! (taken in 2006)

[tribalsurfer]

Wife has an affinity with Swanage and I with Woolacombe. Very happy to be in either of those locations as much as possible.

[LLCool_K]

Watergate Bay, Cornwall.

[Yipper]

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.

As per the original post, and which you have pretty much come around to agree with, Blackpool Tower and seafront are really rather good fun.

When the fracking money starts rolling in over the next 10-20 years, Blackpool seafront will become fashionable again.

For sure, Blackpool beyond the seafront is a tip right now. But so is ~80% of Britain outside Central London. Just navigate around the bad parts and head straight for the good parts by the Tower.

[Robertj21a]

Yipper said:

As per the original post, and which you have pretty much come around to agree with, Blackpool Tower and seafront are really rather good fun.

When the fracking money starts rolling in over the next 10-20 years, Blackpool seafront will become fashionable again.

For sure, Blackpool beyond the seafront is a tip right now. But so is ~80% of Britain outside Central London. Just navigate around the bad parts and head straight for the good parts by the Tower.

I would say that most of Britain is actually quite good - think of all those lovely towns and villages dotted around the many wonderful, more rural, counties. The less wonderful parts tend to be the more built-up areas (not surprisingly) and, in my view, there's a disproportionate number in a broad line from, say, Liverpool/Preston to Hartlepool/Hull - places such as Bradford, Middlesbrough, Accrington, Oldham, Hartlepool, Rochdale etc

[Morningside]

Robertj21a said:

Yipper said:

As per the original post, and which you have pretty much come around to agree with, Blackpool Tower and seafront are really rather good fun.

When the fracking money starts rolling in over the next 10-20 years, Blackpool seafront will become fashionable again.

For sure, Blackpool beyond the seafront is a tip right now. But so is ~80% of Britain outside Central London. Just navigate around the bad parts and head straight for the good parts by the Tower.

I would say that most of Britain is actually quite good - think of all those lovely towns and villages dotted around the many wonderful, more rural, counties. The less wonderful parts tend to be the more built-up areas (not surprisingly) and, in my view, there's a disproportionate number in a broad line from, say, Liverpool/Preston to Hartlepool/Hull - places such as Bradford, Middlesbrough, Accrington, Oldham, Hartlepool, Rochdale etc

I'm actually temped to go to Blackpool just on the viewing of this drone video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8bOJDLnBjU

[GetCarter]

Yipper said:

Blackpool beyond the seafront is a tip right now. But so is ~80% of Britain outside Central London.

Yipper mate... you need to get out more

[LeighW]

GetCarter said:

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.

I was there last October, it was absolutely rammed with people. Terrible it was.

Buttermere Panorama by Leigh Willars, on Flickr

[GetCarter]

LeighW said:

GetCarter said:

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.

I was there last October, it was absolutely rammed with people. Terrible it was.

Buttermere Panorama by Leigh Willars, on Flickr

Yep. October can be bad also. Walking round Buttermere you'll see at least a few dozen people. (This is what I call busy BTW).

ETA... trouble was, living there, if I needed to go into town to buy stuff, I'd get snarled up in slow moving traffic jams. The A66 was a nightmare in summer.

Edited by GetCarter on Thursday 18th May 06:54

[Europa1]

North Norfolk coast (Chelsea-on-Sea, I know, but in my defence I grew up there), or the Yorkshire Dales.

[Loose_Cannon]

GetCarter said:

Yipper said:

Blackpool beyond the seafront is a tip right now. But so is ~80% of Britain outside Central London.

Yipper mate... you need to get out more

Central London? If you like living in a multicultural anthill (no matter if it is platinum plated) go ahead.