Quaint little villages with old pubs in them. Estate gardens and a garden tour. I've been to Scotland but if I went to England I would try to find the natural beauty.
@JimboSaturn oh definitely, you’d be mad to miss the main tourist attractions but I certainly wouldn’t spend too much of a trip there. The architecture in Bath where they film a lot of period dramas is fascinating.
I spent a week in England about 15 years ago and did all the tourist stuff in London. I got to visit a few family sites in Kent. On my next trip, I want to visit other family sites in other parts of England and visit Scotland.
Stonehenge, Isle of Man. That port city on isle of Man with the white buildings all against each other, facing the inland Sea - I saw pictures of it and it looks jolly perfect. And I know that place. I've never been in this lifetime, but it's an old familiar sight.
@Primnproper I should say their country Estates and not that they were hurt for too long, just that they smashed up their fast sports cars and roadsters... It was a thing in the seventies
I am in the US. I grew up in Ohio but live in Maryland now. The only other nation I have ever been to is Canada. But that was just Ontario, which is like Ohio, but with French labels, too. And kilometers, liters, and Celsius. And $2 coins. And free health care.
The UK has all that, too, but no French, dollars, and is definately not Ohio. Some old parts of Maryland, though, were settled by English people before the UK even existed. I live in Anne Arundel County, named after Queen Anne.
I've been to the UK dozens of times, all on business, but now realize I never really visited some of the off the beaten path places that I should have...
I have a handful of friends in the UK that use to live in the USA. Would visit them. One is an long distance road biker. Probably rend a pike and peddle pavement with him.
Came back and went for a nostalgic peek at my grandparents' house. It was gone! The whole street was demolished, made into a little park because of subsidence.
Last visit was to see a family member so I spent my time in London. If I get another chance, I might brave a ride on the London Eye, but I’d really like to visit Cornwall. My friend says it’s a nice train ride ?
Mainly just coastal areas in every county, et al., preferably rural and somehow magically without throngs of tourists and wealthy second home types (which I gather makes Cornwall in particular a double-edged sword)
There are other places / aspects too (including more urban and frenetic environs certainly, and particularly the [i]modern[/i] aspects of them, e.g., parts of the UK have some amazing modern architecture, whereas stuff like Tudor buildings for the most part does nothing for me), but the natural coastal landscapes are the first consideration by a longshot
Whisky distilleries in Scotland obviously (which for now is still in the UK I suppose), and to visit the small parcels of Laphroaig peat beds I theoretically own LOL
There are things I would like to both see and not see, like the expanding presence of vineyards, as I know this only possible with the global climate change that is ruining the planet as a whole, and will eventually for instance make it impossible to continue growing pinot noir in Burgundy
There are things I absolutely detest too, like holding on to monarchy, only a cult would allow it to continue
