I know there are reasons why college financial aid paperwork and income tax paperwork have to done at the same time, but I don’t have to like it!
When I am up to my eyeballs in Things I Don’t Enjoy, I take the odd moment to fantasize about travel. Lately I’ve been dreaming about a trip back to the UK. I lived there for three years while on international assignment, but that was twenty years ago. I am really longing to go back and hoping it may be possible in a few years.
Of course I will want to revisit London and perhaps other major cities. But my heart is really in the countryside. Since I don’t have a lot of time to write about my favorite locations (have to get back to that annoying paperwork), I hope you will enjoy some pictures from some of my places I’d revisit in my dream tour.
I would definitely go back to Sussex and revisit favorite walks and pubs there.
Countryside in Sussex
I couldn’t miss Cornwall—so craggy and romantic.
Lands End in Cornwall, UK
The Cotswolds are how I imagine as the Shire, from The Lord of the Rings.
Evening time near the pretty Cotswold village of Ilmington, Warwickshire, England
The Yorkshire moors—breezy and other-worldly.
View from the top of Hasty Bank into Bilsdale, North Yorkshire Moors
I think my favorite area may be the Lake District.
Stone Barn overlooking Ullswater in the English Lake District
Where would you most like to go, whether in the UK or elsewhere?
Elena
All of those same places! I definitely want to go back to Scotland though. I just love the Highlands. But anywhere in the UK really, I adore small towns and being able to explore the area just by walking.
Ki Pha, I would love to add the Highlands to the tour. I loved Skye, Glencoe and Eilan Donan castle and would love to revisit. This could be a very protracted tour. Now I’m mulling the idea of adding Ireland. Kerry is so beautiful.
LOL!! I’d happily go with you, Elena –to all those places! Do you think a six-month tour would be enough time? I love the countryside, and there is a lot of it (including Sussex) that I haven’t had any chance to see, but I also love some of the spots in London where you can step into an alley and be transported back centuries (or step into a drugstore and realize the building is 500 years old, nothing “special” to see here). I think I even miss breathing the air over there. Waaaaaa. I want to go NOW!! Where’s my transporter unit?
I can’t think of a nicer traveling companion for such a trip than you, Gail. We must make it happen sometime!