UK staycation boom predicted

In general we do not go to visit a site and its areas as such. Apart from December all our trips or the last 15 years+ have been based along a planned circular tour route. There have been some sites that we have visited 3 times in that period but they are few. Many sites just once or twice.

Only stayed there once but can confirm that it does indeed rain, and rain and rain!

Arrived to a very waterlogged site after just about the worst ever drive towing the van, on a motorway with roadworks, reduced lane widths, little visibility  in a monsoon level downpour.

Not been that way since but still causes a shudder!

We spent a week around Glen Coe in June 1980 and were treated to a week of rain and sleet. Not my idea of main summer holiday weather at all and we have yet to return. We may get there again one day but it is at the end of a long list.

 

"Want to do same in France at some point. Explore lots of churches, castles, historic centres."

This made me smile as it shows how things can look different depending on where you are standing.

If I said "how a bout a UK trip looking at churches and castles" it would be a very swift, and firm, no.

If, however, I said "how about a trip to see Carcassonne, Mont St Michel, Verona, and Florence" it would be an entirely different reaction!!

The user and all related content has been Deleted User

😁History is my passion. I love British Churches, all our history of one sort and another is in there, large and small. You can walk in the footsteps of beggars and Kings, marvel at the ancient methods of construction, find a pirate’s grave (around 3 miles from where you live😉) They are the buildings that have possibly seen more change than any other in our landscape. Similar with castles, although Oliver Cromwell and his buddies have a lot to answer for☹️

Continental churches are still much more colourful, but that’s their history. Just as interesting as ours, but without the Reformation. It’s a whole new World waiting to be explored.😁OH was blown away by Alhambra, I loved Athens and the Acropolis, Mycenae, Delphi. If it’s old, I love it.😁

Ttda

If you ever make it to Brittany then I would recommend making a special effort, amongst many others, to visit the Trémalo Chapel, near Pont Aven. It is the most magical of places and contains a wooden Cross with a  Yellow Jesus on it that inspired the painting by Paul Gauguin.

It's a private chapel but open to the public and we came across it by chance whilst on a circular walk from Pont Aven itself, as we tend to find most places.

https://www.deconcarneauapontaven.com/en/explore/heritage/chapel-tremalo/

Apologies for going off piste.

I'll be looking to spend some time this autumn making a point of exploring new places to us in the UK. There are bits of Somerset and Wiltshire, rural Dorset and north Devon that we have only just dipped our toes in. 

I have the green light to start investigating.

Somerset is enticing us. Has some of the best churches in country. I would like to have a look around the Willow Centre as well. Done Glastonbury a few times, (brilliant for people watching😎), want to revisit Wells. We might veer further East in Wiltshire. We drove back through Avebury a couple of years ago. We really ought to hit Kent and Sussex, but the traffic puts us off. 

Content has been removed.