This winter, I headed up to Edinburgh and then made my way back to London in stages down the east of the country (Newcastle/Durham/York/Lincoln/etc) before scooting off to France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands . I'm beginning the process of planning my winter trip for next February and am looking to return to the UK to do the west and then, hopefully, heading over to Ireland and Spain.
As you can see from my 2015 schedule; I'm a bit of a history buff so I'm looking for suggestions that will take me to as many Medieval cities and towns as I can get to in a 2 or 3 week trip (I will have about 6 weeks in total and time spent in each location will be reasonably flexible. I was thinking of a 50/50 or, perhaps, 60/40split between Blighty and Le continent. But that is, in no way, set in stone).
The only provisional plans that I have are to, perhaps, start in Carlisle and head back down. I want to get to Hadrian's Wall and didn't really manage to do that this year as all public transport options out of Hexham weren't running during the winter (Wallsend doesn't really count). I had also planned on visiting Ludlow and Hereford before crossing over into Wales. From there, I had thoughts of taking a look at Cirencester and Bath before heading to Reading (To take in an RFC game) and back to London; where my brother lives and I will be semi-basing myself (Another possibility would be to visit the more northerly locations first, head back to London, and then do Reading, Bath, Cirencester and Wales on my way toward Ireland if, that is, there is a way of getting between Wales and Ireland. I heard rumours of a ferry??).
Are there any other destinations people think I should add?? I've been to most of the big cities before (Not Manchester but I'm not very interested to tell the truth). I'd like to get to Bosworth Field but if it's too far out of the way it might have to be missed. I was hoping to do as much of this by public transport as possible and don't really want to have to hire a car.
Cheers.
ManX
