Recommendations for UK (the deep cut edition) (1 Viewer)

[funky]

I'm looking to do more travel within the UK as my exploration of this land is quite rotten. I'd like to find cute towns and villages that I can either drive to or get to easy by train. Outside of the obvious tourist places.

They can still be touristy- for instance I keep getting told to do Malham as it not only has a cute village but has the cove walk as well.

Suggestions please! I need the motivation before another year passes by and I've still seen no more of the UK.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Callanish.

Stonehenge without the ENGLISH, and you can pop over to Tong and spit on Donald Trump's mother's birthplace

 

[funky]

How does one usually travel there?

 

[funky]

Every image of Callanish on google is just of the stones I mean I get it I would want to go and see them but WHAT DOES THE PLACE ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Plane or ferry to Stornoway, then god knows, I was 10 or so last time I was at the stones.

The whole outer Hebrides are stunning though, people backpack around the islands there.

 

[funky]

I wanna do that level of Scotland one day, but I don't think I would do it alone. ALAS being single and not having adventurous single friends.

 

[Rachey]

Mallam is very cool. We did it a few years ago. Lots of walking in the area.

I'm a huge lover of Wales as well. So many cute villages, beautiful scenery and amazing walks.

Devon and Cornwall are also very pretty.

I assume these are all accessible one way or another on a train, although we usually drive.

 

[Rachey]

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The whole outer Hebrides are stunning though, people backpack around the islands there.

I'd love to do the Hebrides. And Shetland. And every little island in the UK.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I have a DEEP HATRED of the Hebrides because my grandparents live there so that was our Summer Holiday most years. Not in any way fun for 5 to 15 year olds.

Dreading one of them carking it and having to go up for their funeral. Even if the craggy outcroppings will make a stunning backdrop for MOURNING

 

[funky]

As an example I discovered Cartmel when I had to go a horrible races day for a stag do, and I escaped with someone and went drinking in a pub in the village. That was really cute.

 

[Rachey]

I have a DEEP HATRED of the Hebrides because my grandparents live there so that was our Summer Holiday most years. Not in any way fun for 5 to 15 year olds.

Dreading one of them carking it and having to go up for their funeral. Even if the craggy outcroppings will make a stunning backdrop for MOURNING

Apart from your childhood memories of the place....is it beautiful? I feel like it would be stunning but isolated.

 

[funky]

Apart from your childhood memories of the place....is it beautiful? I feel like it would be stunning but isolated.

Stunning but isolated is the very DEFINITION of beautiful

How often do you get to see something pretty without it being DRENCHED in humans?

 

[Rachey]

@funky have a look at Pembroke in Wales. Cute little town and loads of other nice places nearby. Including Bosherton lily ponds and Barafundle bay.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Apart from your childhood memories of the place....is it beautiful? I feel like it would be stunning but isolated.

Yes, Luskentyre beach in Harris for example is one of the prettiest beaches in the UK, easily.

 

[Rachey]

Stunning but isolated is the very DEFINITION of beautiful

How often do you get to see something pretty without it being DRENCHED in humans?

Very true. This is why we like Wales so much. People just don't seem to holiday there much and I have no idea why.

Cornwall on the other hand, although beautiful, is so full of tourists it's starting to put us off going again.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

And you get to look out to Taransay, original location for Castaway before they decided to make it tropical

 

[Rachey]

Stow on the wold area is another beautiful place. But again, sadly so full of tourists you can barely walk around.

 

[Rachey]

Yes, Luskentyre beach in Harris for exaample is one of the prettiest beaches in the UK, easily.

That looks almost tropical is it too cold to swim in

 

[ZenGiraffe]

That looks almost tropical is it too cold to swim in

I used to go swimming around Harris, depends how much of a wimp you are really.

 

[funky]

I haven't been to Cornwall in a long time but would love to go again- it's just such an arse to travel to.

But there are parts to it that are not tourist traps. And they are just as beautiful. I remember when we went to Porthtowan, it was just a village with a beach isolated by two cliffs. You could go only get from one road. It was idyllic. It helped that the weather was incredible the week we were there. It's probably all built up now, but there must be parts that are still like that. Cornwall is fucking huge.

 

[Rachey]

Mullion cove is lovely actually, in Cornwall on the lizard point. That wasn't too busy, lots of nice walks.

 

[lolly]

Most of Cornwall isn't busy, even in prime tourist season. You just need to avoid places like Newquay, St Ives, Padstow etc. And always remember that Land's End is a waste of time. Get out on the coast path and you'll have beaches to yourself even on a Saturday in July.

 

[lolly]

Cornwall isn't particularly huge though. It just feels like it because driving anywhere takes forever. Plus of course it has a good few hundred miles of coastline.