has anyone mentioned Knoydart? Barrisdale is amazing.

Birmingham. End of thread.

Maybe not eh…

British Museum. And Courtauld's gallery.

grum – see http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/tandemtastic?replies=16#post-1251358
I am feeling a lot better thanks, hope you had a good holiday.

Sorry for the hijack.

agree with W of Scotland and Isles (really, really worth it)
drive Applecross/Torridon
Old Man of Hoy from ferry
cycle across Barmouth estuary
Portmeirion,drink in the hotel
Somerset levels @6am on a (sunny and unwindy) summer morning
red cliffs of Devon from a train
land on Barra airport
Norfolk Broads
Severn bore
Minack theatre
Jack Fullers pyramid
Northen Lights
Glen Trool
drive to Woody Bay
Ring of Brogar

Swaledale, and not just because i live there!

I love Britain. This Green and pleasant land.
So many of the places mentioned above are amazing- breathtakingly wonderful.

I'd also add:

Moussa.
Skomer marine nature reserve.
A walk along the South Bank.
Cardiff on an International Day.

Isles of Scilly. Like a little bit of the maldives just off cornwall. Cant beat fishing for mackerel then barbecuing them on your own island* watching the sun go down. Or eating the worlds best pasties and drinking beer above the little stone quay on St Agnes.

*its only yours for the evening, its good to share

Surfing with the one you love at Polzeath on a stormy winter afternoon, just as the clouds all part when the sun is setting giving a contrast of blue sky & sea, white clouds and foam, and looming dark clouds.

The Northumberland coast from Alnmouth to Ross is just fantastic. On a quiet day, Bamburgh beach is my idea of perfection – tucked into the dunes out of the wind, in a little bubble of calm, with just the distant waves to break the silence…

(pardon the grain, the photo is scanned from an analogue print)

Stonehenge will be great if they ever sort out the road, and let people near it. Avebury is much better though IMO.
Carreg Cennen is the best castle I've been to:

RichPenny, let's not forget Woodhenge!

Stonehenge isn't so mystical and interesting when you drive past it twice a day on the way to work for a few months. Particularly in the summer when it's at walking pace! About time they put the roof on it too.

Clun
Our little hut in The Lakes.
Snowdonia
Mid-Wales.
London
Manchester
Edinburgh
Fegg Hayes

Loch Quoich

There are parts of the Northern Highlands of Scotland I'd like to explore, north of Inverness and north of Torridon.

Ross Beach (between Bamburgh & Holy Island)…but don't tell anyone!

… Hadrians Wall

…and I quite like it down here in the Malverns.

Anywhere North of the central belt is pish. Try Wrexham. Great Yarmouth is nice too.

Walk across the Millenium Bridge and go into the Tate Modern
Ludlow – medieval architecture
Stamford – England's best stone town
Crickhowell for a pint outside The Bear
Soho – pint in the Coach and Horses and eat in the Gay Hussar

walk the SW coast path from Tinagel to Bude – Fab.
North Norlolk deserted beaches – BIG skys, wonderful birdlife, seals
canoe the river wye for a section on a sunny June day

is it fair to say as a control that all these places are impressing despite the weather? ive had some cracking nice sunny days out but in some fairly mediocre places….

Though my heart's also in the NW Highlands, the Jupiter Artland installations just west of Edinburgh are worth a visit –

(photopage)

As featured previously in this fantastic thread!

Wastwater in the lakes is pretty special

dave_aber – Member

Wrexham.

LOL, and strangely +1.

But seriously, Port Meirion, The view from Harlech towards Criccieth and the Lleyn peninsula, the panorama walk Barmouth….

All the places I know which are special, and therefore out of bounds to anyone else.
Why the **** do you want to advertise nice places for everyone to come along and spoil them ?

Big Ben (or whatever the tower that houses it is called).

The woods at the back of Nationwide Swindon