A Wanderlust Wishlist – Holidaying in the UK *
Did any of you notice that I’ve swapped my A Wednesday Wishlist feature for something different this week? Today I’m sharing A Wanderlust Wishlist instead, just for a change. And lets face it, we all know how much I love an adventure!
After next year there will be no more holidays abroad for Little Miss and I for a good three years. Why? Because my dad promised that when my nephew and daughter have turned 5, he’ll help finance a family trip to Florida. My sister and I are on count down already! However, he’s only offered to pay for accommodation and of course he’ll be renting the car. We need to pay for our own flights and park tickets, then of course the spending money so we’re still talking a few thousand each. That means three years of solid saving to make this dream come true. I can’t possibly go three years with some form of a holiday so I figured, why not explore our own country? Despite being travel savvy, I usually go and visit friends, I have had very few holidays in the UK even as a child. I feel like I’ve been missing out, so why not try and see more, especially now I have a little on on my own!
I don’t camp. I camped a little back in my late teens at festivals and with my friends but I hate it. I hate waking up in the morning with the damp and how uncomfortable it is. I need some comforts, I’m not any good at the roughing it and I can’t imagine it’s fun with a child, especially a child like mine who doesn’t sleep well even in her bed! That’s how I came across Park Leisure which offers 5 star luxury holiday homes including caravans and lodges, those I find much more appealing! They have eight parks close to some of England’s most beautiful countryside & coasts. They have some parks in Co. Durham, Lancashire, Cornwall, Yorkshire and even Northumberland! All beautiful areas of the country and at least two of the places I’m dying to holiday, Co.Ā Durham and i’d love to go back to Cornwall.
I’ve compiled a wishlist of places here in my home country I still haven’t managed to visit.
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| Durham // Newquay // Stratford Upon Avon Bath // Loch Lomond // Brighton Pier |
To fulfill my love of history I really want to visit Durham & Bath.. there is even a Park Leisure in Co. Durham not too far from from Durham City. The place always looks so beautiful when I pass on the train and I’ve been told it’s similar to York.. and I LOVE York. I also want to visit from Bath, again for the beautiful historical buildings. I’ve ALWAYS wanted to go to Stratford Upon Avon as I love Shakespeare and that’s his home! It feels wrong I still haven’t been. If I’m not going somewhere warm for a long time perhaps a couple of trips to some seaside towns? Newquay is where I want to go next in Cornwall, the beautiful beaches always just look like going abroad. Brighton is the other seaside town I want to visit, mainly because I have some awesome friends there but because there seems to be so much to do! I hate holidays where I might get bored. Finally, Loch Lomond, I’d like to go with my parents though. The place has great significance for us all.
Is there anywhere in the UK you really want to visit? Are the any places you’d recommend I visit?
14 Comments
Rachael
My family on my mum’s side is from Durham so we use to visit a lot. It’s kind of like York (i’m just from outside of York) so I can see why people would suggest they were similar especially with narrow streets and stuff but it’s a lot more hillly. Make sure to walk along the river, it’s gorgeous!
Most of my childhood holiday were in the UK because it was all we could afford and we use to holiday a lot in Scotland – Edinburgh, North Berwick, St Andrews and Calender are all worthy of a visit if you haven’t been there already!
Amy Marie
That’s all my area! We day tripped to all those places when I was a child! I live right on the English/Scottish border š
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Bath is on my list too, everyone who’s been there comes back and says how beautiful it is. Personally I prefer York to Durham, Durham always seems smaller and with less to do, but maybe that’s just me – agree with the comment above too, there’s a lot of walking uphill! x
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Amy Marie
I love York too, I often go there as it’s one of my favourite cities. It’s such a nice place to visit š
Claire
I always holiday in the UK! and we were brought up with camping so I do love it, really if you get the right equipment then its fab!
Amy Marie
Even with the right equipment I just hate camping! I’m a bed girl! I could probably do a caravan holiday though!
Sunae Reilly
It’s no secret that I’m dying to explore the UK! My particular obsession at the moment is a trip to Haworth in Yorkshire, as I am reading a few Bronte novels lately, and that’s where they grew up š xx
Amy Marie
Yorkshire is beautiful, as is Haworth, I went with an ex boyfriend! And it’s not too far from me :D:D (well closer than London ha)
Dana Carmella
Those places look absolutely beautiful. Makes me want to visit the UK even more now!! I hope you do get to visit them, good luck. š
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Amy Marie
Everyone always loves visiting the UK, I feel like I really haven’t made an effort to see more of it!
Jay
I’d love to visit Scotland, we always travel thousands of miles abroad but very few in the UK! I love Dublin too although I’ve only had 2 whistle stop trips there, I’d love to visit more of Ireland.
Amy Marie
I really want to visit Dublin too, I can’t believe I didn’t include any Irish places! I’m hoping to pop over next year š
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I’ve lived near Bath for 28 years (and work there) so it’s not much of an attraction for me! But I know how beautiful everyone finds it, and there is some lovely things about it (away from the crowds!).
I really want to visit the Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, the Shetlands, the Scilly Isles, Dungeness and Brighton (only ever had day trips in Brighton and never spent a long time visiting). All of our holidays are in the UK or Ireland as our Passports ran out in 2009 and we never bothered renewing them (too expensive).
I’d recommend visiting Anglesey, the Isle of Harris in Scotland, West Cornwall and weirdly, the Solway Firth (that bit of coastline near Sellafield…) is actually very pretty! š x
Amy Marie
Oh I definitely want to go to the Scilly Isles, they look beautiful!
I understand about not finding where you live as an attraction! I live in a seaside town that everyone raves about and because I grew up here I just don’t see it!