Where to go when : Great Britain & Ireland

276 Pages·2010·312.919 MB·English

by  DK Publishing, Julia Bradbury

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FOREWORD WRITER
JULIA BRADBURY
Julia Bradbury is one of television’s most experienced
and versatile presenters. Best known for hosting the
country-affairs programme Country file (BBC One) with
Matt Baker, Julia has also presented the hugely successful
Wainwright’s Walks (BBC Four) and Railway Walks (BBC Two),
and the cutting-edge series Kill It, Cook It, Eat It (BBC Three).
A well-known face on our screens, Julia’s back catalogue
has included the consumer-affairs programme Watchdog
(BBC One), and the two travel series Rough Guide to ...
(Channel Five) and Wish You Were Here ... ? (ITV). Prior
to that she was the Los Angeles Correspondent for
GMTV (ITV), and hosted EXCLUSIVE!, one of the
launch programmes for Channel 5.
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WHERE TO
GO WHEN
GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND

WHERETO
GO WHEN
GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND
FOREWORD BY
JULIA BRADBURY
CONTENTS
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LIST MANAGER Christine Stroyan
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DTP DESIGNER Jamie McNeill SPRING IN GREAT BRITAIN 10 SUMMER IN GREAT BRITAIN 58
AND IRELAND AND IRELAND
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CARTOGRAPHER Stuart James BRITAIN IN BLOOM 12 BESIDE THE SEA 60
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MAIN COVER IMAGE: Stonehenge, Wiltshire EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 106
half title page IMAGE: Sphinx rock on Great Gable, Lake District SOUTHERN SCOTLAND
TITLE PAGE IMAGE: Sunset over Esthwaite Water, Lake District
CONTENTS: View of River Wye from Symonds Yat, Herefordshire MORE GREAT IDEAS FOR SUMMER 108
FOREWORD IMAGE: Temple Bar district, Dublin, Ireland
AUTUMN 110 WINTER 158
AUTUMN IN GREAT BRITAIN 112 WINTER IN GREAT BRITAIN 160
AND IRELAND AND IRELAND
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD 114 THE FESTIVE SEASON 162
LOWER WYE VALLEY 116 GIANT'S CAUSEWAY 164
SOUTH WALES NORTHERN IRELAND
HIGHLAND GAMES 118 STONEHENGE 166
HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, SCOTLAND SOUTHWEST ENGLAND
BEAMISH 120 SHETLAND 168
NORTHEAST ENGLAND HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, SCOTLAND
WINDSOR 122 GLENDALOUGH 170
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND EASTERN IRELAND
BLACKPOOL 124 ISLE OF MAN 172
NORTHWEST ENGLAND IRISH SEA
THE CHILTERNS 126 CAVES OF CASTLETON 174
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND AND BUXTON
EAST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND
GALWAY 128
WESTERN IRELAND GLASGOW WINTERFEST 176
SOUTHERN SCOTLAND
PORTMEIRION 130
NORTH WALES DARTMOOR 178
SOUTHWEST ENGLAND
MOUNTAINS OFMOURNE 132
NORTHERN IRELAND THE FENS 180
EASTERN ENGLAND
FOUNTAINS ABBEY 134
NORTHEAST ENGLAND YORK 182
NORTHEAST ENGLAND
LEWES 136
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND PEMBROKESHIRE COAST 184
CENTRAL WALES
STOKE-ON-TRENT 138
WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND PORTSMOUTH 186
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND
LOCH LOMOND 140
CENTRAL SCOTLAND THE BRECON BEACONS 188
CENTRAL WALES
GREAT NORTH RUN, NEWCASTLE 142
NORTHEAST ENGLAND BURNS HERITAGE TRAIL 190
SOUTHERN SCOTLAND
MANCHESTER 144
NORTHWEST ENGLAND CAIRNGORMS 192
HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, SCOTLAND
THE NEW FOREST 146
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM 194
WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND
BUN RATTY CASTLE 148
SOUTHERN IRELAND CAMBRIDGE 196
EASTERN ENGLAND
NORTH CORNWALL 150
SOUTHWEST ENGLAND
MORE GREAT IDEAS FOR WINTER 198
HEREFORDSHIRE 152
WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND
RIVER TAY 154
CENTRAL SCOTLAND
REGIONAL DIRECTORY 200
MORE GREAT IDEAS FOR AUTUMN 156 INDEX 266
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 272
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FOREWORD I can honestly say there is no place like home. My peregrinations abroad
have added to my personal history and stretched my imagination, but
there is still so much I want to do and see on our islands - so much that
There are some places that you don’t need an excuse or reason to visit - I find just as exciting as anything the rest of the world has to offer. Giant’s
you simply must. These are places that add essential and memorable Causeway, for example, is one of the most unusual and spectacular sights
experiences to your personal history. Arriving at the summit of Scafell you could ever come across - a natural geological phenomenon that
Pike in the Lake District is one of my moments. It was late, and the looks as if it could have been designed and dreamt up by a pioneering
evening light glistened over the boulder-strewn landscape. When I architect like Zaha Hadid. I was born in Ireland, so am drawn back to
reached the summit (camera crew in tow), powerful fresh winds its romantic landscape time and time again, but it is years since I visited
blustered all around - gusts strong enough to fall back onto. I was sure Giant’s Causeway - and a revisit is long overdue. If you were to follow its
I could hear a loose spinnaker fluttering in the wind, but there were no tens of thousands of hexagonal rock columns into the sea at the Antrim
boats up there on that ragged rocky surface. The sky was tinged a perfect Coast you would emerge in Scotland! Tip-toeing over tiles 60 million
shade of misty pink. It was intoxicating. years old - now that would be an aquatic adventure to remember...
I am lucky enough to have adventured through quite a few spots on A man who understands the power of the pilgrimage is the actor
the globe because of my work. I have met and travelled with people who Peter Florence, creator of the Hay Festival and still involved today. This
have taught me lots and shown me wonderful places - from the lush, now-annual literary love-fest is the perfect meeting of culture and
singing forests of Costa Rica to the mammoth Navajo Sandstone Zion countryside. The two have long been intertwined; writers, poets and
Canyon in Utah and the ever-reaching bush veldt of South Africa - but artists have always been inspired by landscape and nature. Anyone who
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has heard a chorus sung from a hilltop, or watched A Midsummer Night’s stopping to think about how things used to be not so long ago that makes
Dream sitting on a grassy bank, cannot help but be drawn to Hay. Such you appreciate where we are now. Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire
a simple idea - go to one of the most beautiful parts of the country, sit has been described as “England’s most sublime architectural ruin” and
on a patch of green softness and read, listen and chat to people who, Tintern Abbey in the Wye Valley inspired Turner to put paint to canvas,
like you, care passionately about books, writing, creativity and the and Wordsworth ink to paper. Perhaps you will be equally stimulated.
countryside. Bill Clinton called it “the Woodstock of the mind”. I hope this book is not just a coffee table companion to impress
If, like me, you can only sit for so long, then combine your literary your friends and family with what you “could” or “may” do, but an
leanings at Hay with adventure, and explore further over the Welsh inspirational guide as to what you “will” and “can” do over the next few
border into the Brecon Beacons. This stunning location is an outdoor years. Exploration really does stir the imagination. Whether it’s a canal
paradise. Kayak up the River Wye (why? because you can), pony-trek cruise along the Cheshire Ring, a walk along mighty Hadrian’s Wall or an
across the Black Mountains or hike across the Beacons themselves. escape to Broadstairs on the Kent coast (where Charles Dickens penned
Or do you prefer to be beside the seaside? Why not combine Brighton’s David Copperfield), set yourself a mini-mission every so often to explore
vibrant annual Arts Festival in May with an exploration of the South a little more of what lies right on your doorstep. More than 2,000
Downs? This vast, beautiful swathe of chalky uplands and dramatic special places and marvellous things to do await you in this beautiful
cliffs is a nature-lover’s delight, with butterflies and bluebells, rare wild book. Each one promises to be an adventure, so remember to keep
orchids, swallows and swifts, warblers and linnets. notes. This is a little bit of personal history you’re making.
Do ruins leave you stone-cold? Put your imagination in gear, do
Julia Bradbury
a little research, and ruins can come alive. There is something about
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