If you were going to tour the UK where would say is a must see? What are the most amazing sights in the country?
For me it's pretty much all of the west coast/highlands of Scotland - Skye in particular is very beautiful and the Cuillin mountains are the most spectacular in the UK.
sandwood bay, north north north west scotlandshire
Rhossili Bay
Picture this: Northern working town, two pissed up slappers kicking the crap out of each other. Beautiful, just beautiful.
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Ordsall at night can be pretty amazing
http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2005/04/salford-in-particular-ordsall-estate/
The music room at the Royal Pavilion Brighton. Although not on a bike.
you could visit ordsall on a decent bike, but I'd pretty much guarantee you'd leave without it 😉
Centre of London
Glen Affric / Glen Feshie as well as the NW coast.
Giant's Causeway, but really all the coast of nornirn from Derry to Cushendall
The lakes, around Ullswater.
A cathedral city, most will do but I personally prefer Durham having lived there and Wells as I used to live near there.
Cornish coast
Bamburgh Castle - one of the nicest (an probably the coldest) beaches I've been to.
I have a softspot for the NE and it really is worth a trip up this way with a night out in the Toon.
London, nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
Bolton, it'll help you appreciate how nice everywhere else is 😉
Durham Cathedral and Castle from the towpath by Prebends bridge
driving home past netto passing pub two pregnant teenagers outside the pub smoking ah northern Britain
North wales , Lake District, parts of Scotlandshire
I think most of the answers are going to be very obvious or seem boring with a few hidden gems.
I think obviously you have to add the lake district in there, with my favourite view being loughrigg fell looking down onto Lake Grasmere. I also like like the view from Castlerigg stone circle.
Both pretty boring typical lake district tourist spot but I like em. Would also agree that Rhossili Bay is a great beach.
Oh yeah would add at least one decent welsh castle in there maybe Caernarfon or Conway Castle
[i]driving home past netto passing pub two pregnant teenagers outside the pub smoking ah northern Britain[/i]
You are Mark Datz and I claim my £5.
There's nothing to see here in the NE, it's very cold yes to visitors but there's nothing to see.
Peckham.
But only in spring when it's at it's best.
Beaches on Lewis and Harris.
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Catrine, in East Ayrshire, [url= http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2009/12/catrine-village-of-the-damned/ ]sounds lovely[/url]...
Wrexham.
Lands End sunset after everybody else has fvcked off home.
Check out the road to Applecross! Probably the best road to drive in Britain and has some spectacular views of the islands at the top. Google it for an idea.
I love all the gorgeous stone villages in North Yorkshire. North Wales around Snowdon is rugged and beautiful in the autumn.
Most of Scotland and all of the Lake district is a must to see.
Dartmoor
[i]Oh yeah would add at least one decent welsh castle in there maybe Caernarfon [/i]
I was there 2 weeks ago and it got me thinking of how much of the UK I haven't seen hence the question.
Stone Henge
The little beach at Achmelvich is awesome
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Thats probably quite a useful website for things to see.
the singing sands of eigg
the orchestrion at kinloch castle
(both youtube-able, but i can't youtube from work so no linky, sorry)
a pint in the [url= http://www.theoldforge.co.uk/ ]old forge inn, inverie[/url], britain's most remote mainland pub
if you're in this area, take the ferry to tarbet, stay in the hostel if you have time to spare, don't if you don't, but the trip is incredible
this is west scotland, so you'll want to head over to skye, which is beautiful but has a bit of a tourist infestation in summer
back to the mainland over the skye bridge follow the road to lochcarron, watch a game of shinty (mental, seriously mental), onward to take the bealach na ba to applecross. applecross is ok, but the bealach is awesome - again some not bad youtubes, then on and through torridon
the coast road from torridon up toward cape wrath and along the north coast
orkney - esp north ronaldsay where the sheep live on the beaches, eat seaweed and are not allowed on the island proper because they will die if they eat to much grass - get lucky, you might see some orca getting their dinner off the north head
anthony gormley's "another place" on sefton beach
the roman baths at bath
lindisfarne
seaworld at the forth bridge - big sharks with lots of sharp pointy teeth
back to scotland - do a munroe, cairn aosda in glenshee is only about 300 ft above the shops, so an hour or so should do it
are you including ireland? the book of kells and trim castle
giant's causeway
Teesdale - North Pennines, walk the Tees from Middleton to High Force between 6am and 9am or 6pm and 9pm.
High Cup Nick - North Pennines
Northumberland Beaches
Jura
Most tourists seem to do London as they land near there, followed by Oxford or Cambs and then nip up to Scotland for Edinburgh.
The slightly more adventurous tourist will visit both oxford and cambs, lakes, cornwall and some part of wales.
I would recommend Shropshire or Herefordshire as they have those ye olde buildings but personally it's not my kind of place to spend a long time.
The beach at Achmelvich is lovely but it had nothing on some of the Lewis and Harris beaches - seriously mind-blowing.
@ Bunnyhop - how are you getting on? Better I hope 🙂
Lots of it's good - I really love this country for the diversity. If I had to show england to an alien, I'd take them to the following:
london
south downs
pennines
north devon/cornish coast
highlands
giants causeway area
surrey hills on a misty summer morning
brighton
lakes
cathedral city
somewhere with very good tradiditonal pubs
somewhere with industrial revolution heritage (leeds/manchester)
somewhere with lots of canals
I'd end up somewhere like Fowey, cornwall, as it's like a concentrated version of everything british - pubs, very changeable weather, hills, maritime history, farming, folky stuff. seriosuly if disney did the 'english countryside' zone at epcot, it would be Fowey.
The singing sands of Eigg! My god, that takes me back to the 80's. Spent a great week on Eigg as a kid, what a beautiful, beautiful place. Must take my little boy - he'd love the beaches.
North Downs?
Personally if I were visiting, I'd want to see a good selection of all the different sorts of countryside. You'd see the mountains and coast of Scotland, but also take time to see some of the quintessential home counties village green and woodland stuff. Go there, then think of Rupert Brooke and his mates dying on barbed wire in France, and you can really start to understand the sense of nostalgia for their England.. at least I do... There's more to Britain than mountains.
Agree on Harris and Lewis beaches (the wee beach up from Huisinis / opposite Sark is utterly mesmerising) Uists and Tiree not far behind.
Skye for mountains undoubtedly but I'm not mad on the rest of the island.
Hard to pick anywhere specific in Wester Ross and parts of Sutherland have an almost ethereal beauty.
Lakes are nice - bit busy 😉
Torridon. Pretty much all of Wester Ross in fact.
Durham & NW Scotland. End of.
Barafundle.
Feeling a lot of love for Scotland on this subject. Looks like a trip north of the border could be on the cards this summer.
+1 for Barafundle! But Fresh West is better!
Oh, and Bamburgh Beach, Salisbury Plain in high summer, the Wye by canoe, central London, oh so many places!
has anyone mentioned Knoydart? Barrisdale is amazing.
Birmingham. End of thread.
Maybe not eh...
British Museum. And [url= http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/index.shtml ]Courtauld's[/url] 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
