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Dougas

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Sep 3, 2012 8:07 AM
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Best place in Scotland, England, Nothern Ireland, Ireland and Wales

Hey guys,

Can you tell me what's your favorite place in...

Scotland (you can't say Edinburgh or Glasgow)

England (you can't say London)

Wales

Ireland

Northern Ireland

Thanks,

Diogo

Dougas

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Sep 3, 2012 10:00 AM
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Thanks for the reply!

battybilly

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Sep 3, 2012 10:02 AM
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What's your thread all about?
Are you forward planning and just getting a few pointers from people?

Dougas

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Sep 3, 2012 10:13 AM
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Well, I'd like to travel to some places and I think UK and Ireland have a lot to see, but this time I'm looking for nice places without being big cities (like London and Glasgow), you see?
County Donegal looks very beautiful, by the way! And all the other, of course.

battybilly

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Sep 3, 2012 10:20 AM
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I know the whole of Ireland (North and South) very well.
Co. Donegal is right up there at the top of my choices to see.
Incidentally, just my opinion.... I much prefer the night life in Belfast, than in Dublin.
Let us know if you go - and how you get on please.

Dougas

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Sep 3, 2012 10:38 AM
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Sure. By the way, i'm going to make an Inter Rail, so i'm probably going to ask similar questions to this one on other "Europe" topics, asking people to say their favorite places in each country. I'm so excited!
Thanks for your help!

battybilly

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Sep 3, 2012 10:47 AM
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We look forward to your next request.

OneScot

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Sep 3, 2012 11:20 AM
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Scotland (you can't say Edinburgh or Glasgow) - Inchcailloch on Loch Lomond, or really all of Loch Tay.

England (you can't say London) - Bournemouth, although that could be because I have family there I rarely see rather than it being inherently excellent.

Wales - I have never been.

Ireland - Dublin.

Northern Ireland - Travelled fairly well but too young to draw any reasonable conclusions.

mike9

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Sep 3, 2012 11:33 AM
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Ireland - Youghal.
England - (1)Rosebery Topping, N York Moors, and (2) Conholt Causeway (Hampshire / Wiltshire border)
Wales - almost anywhere in the Wye Valley.

Scotland and N Ireland - not seen enough to comment

Buttermilk

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Sep 3, 2012 2:03 PM
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If it's restricted to places I've actual been.

Scotland (you can't say Edinburgh or Glasgow)
Crossing the Highlands by a series of Post Buses (seats in the back of small Post Office Vans)
West Coast around Loch Inver and Ullapool.

England (you can't say London)
Hereford, Herefordshire, Gloustershire, train through rolling hills north to Chester.
Bradford.

Wales
Conwy Castle, a train runs through it.

Ireland
Glendalough an 8thC Monastic village in the Wicklow Mtns,Sth of Dublin. Situated between two lakes.Easy and Medium waymarked routes from half an hour to several days further south. Can be reached by marked walking route from Dublin suburbs along The Wicklow Way.

Northern Ireland
Gracehill, Co. Antrim. Moravian village 2 miles outside Ballymena. Founded in the 18th century by European migrants. The graveyard is segregated between men and women and their are numbers on the gravestones instead of names.

Edited by: Buttermilk

billthehammer

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Sep 3, 2012 2:38 PM
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When a man is tired of London he is tired of life,,, quote Samuel Johnson...

Fwoggie

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Sep 3, 2012 10:50 PM
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Scotland Skye, although Larkhall also left lasting impressions on me.

England Cornwall. Some of the most dramatic coastline in Europe.

Wales Do the Mumbles Miles pub crawl in Swansea.

Ireland Mitzin Point

Northern Ireland Black cab tour of the various "troubled" areas in Belfast via all the murals.

battybilly

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Sep 4, 2012 12:44 AM
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the various "troubled" areas in Belfast via all the murals

After last night there is yet another area to see, or avoid - as the case may be.

Fwoggie

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Sep 4, 2012 1:11 AM
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I know, great new tourist sightseeing opportunity.

And on your right you have a burnt out Vauxhall, still smouldering ladies and gentlemen. On the left you have a troublemaker who's going to pop down to the local catholic church and start playing loyalist tunes to incite another riot. Later on in the tour ladies and gentlemen, we'll go past the Europa hotel, which is the most bombed hotel in the world.

battybilly

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Sep 4, 2012 1:21 AM
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I saw two a few years back which stick with me....

"We won't forget your name.... Billy Sands".

"Trimble will tremble when the Paras reassemble".
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