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Visiting UK - tourism advice?
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:21 amby dustybarn
I'll be visiting the UK in about a week-and-a half (arriving on the 26th) and I'll be staying most of the following week in Woking, with a couple of days in Bath. Can anybody offer any suggestions for a transportation/engineering/history nerd? The most interesting things to visit are not in the guidebooks.
Re: Visiting UK - tourism advice?
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:22 amby A Van
Hi Dusty
Ok have you been to UK before?
Does a trip into London sound ok?
Re: Visiting UK - tourism advice?
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:45 amby Admin-bloke
I have just had a quick look.
If you are in Woking (Surrey) then you are only 20mins from Brooklands Museum (It has a Concorde and old cars etc.) and is on the South West out skirts of London
If you are then in Bath then visit the Baths (hence the name of place!)
Near Bath is the City of Bristol and is famous for Great Western Railway and also had the SS Great Britain (first Iron Ship)
Is old engineering the things you're intetested in?
Let us know and we can see what we csn do to welcome you over here.
I am from the North of England so I only know the basics down South.
Re: Visiting UK - tourism advice?
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:53 pmby RobvdVeer
If you want to see a famous landmark, be sure to visit old Hunstanton. There's a hotel that used to be a meeting point for many DeLorean's. You can still see the oil traces in the gravel. Some say part of the spirit of owners still haunts visitors there. There are numerous folk songs written about the place (i left my heart at caley call, et al.)
Re: Visiting UK - tourism advice?
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:13 pmby A Van
RobvdVeer wrote:If you want to see a famous landmark, be sure to visit old Hunstanton. There's a hotel that used to be a meeting point for many DeLorean's. You can still see the oil traces in the gravel. Some say part of the spirit of owners still haunts visitors there. There are numerous folk songs written about the place (i left my heart at caley call, et al.)
Lol you couldn't be more spot on
Caley Hall started everything
Re: Visiting UK - tourism advice?
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Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:02 amby dustybarn
I've been over there several times before, but have spent more time in Wales and Scotland than in England. I am already planning to go into London to see The Tempest at the Globe (I played Prospero last year so it'll be interesting). I'm a mechanical engineer and I'm very much into old engineering.
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'd forgotten about Brooklands.