What's there to do in the UK?

Manchester to London on the West Coast Mainline takes only around 3 hours
.. So its not a case of either / or in terms of the cities. A good idea in Britain is to bite the bullet, put on your high brow glasses and go cultural for a while... Museums, galleries, churches, concerts.. Then slowly go lower and lower brow till, eventually, you're photographed on Facebook being turned down by coKed up prostitutes... Visit the Irish embassy at that point

Has to be London, even just walking around the place is amazing. I highly recommend the tower of London, and HMS Belfast.

MagicMarker wrote: »

Not fúcking Birmingham or Manchester.

Oi!

MadYaker wrote: »

You've never left Ireland??? :eek: How old are you OP? London is probably the best, theres tons to do there.

I'm kinda jealous of you I think. I was too young to remember the first time I went on holidays, id say if I had spent all my life in Ireland until now my first trip to another country would be so amazing, a great experience that I'll never really have.

theres tons to do in so many other places to,most people who have only spent significant time if not all of it in london always say that.:P its a tourist honeypot but capitals are always cheesy and overrated thanks to the governments who overdo the funding they pump into specific areas but not enough into the deprived areas of their country.

if are going to have access to a car,then woud recommend the lake district OP, it is an amazing place for weird looking caves,scenic views, walks, kayaking, sailing,gorge walking and horse riding.

wales is also a awesome country-very beautiful,if avoid the deprived areas like rhyl which used to be decent.

woud also recommend manchester,its the home town of mine and it has many different things there to do.
it has one of the biggest irish communities in the UK if not the biggest so woud feel quite at home there,it things like has the trafford centre, the chill factor indoors snowboard/skiing centre,lots of equestrian centres horse riding, a hefty public transport system,oh and one thing can definitely recommend if a gamer-the kyoto lounge just off oxford road in picadilly [picadilly in manchester,not london for any london centric folks ],its aparently the only gamer bar/lounge in the UK,and its absolutely fookin amazing, we are trying to book the place but not sure if its accessible,a gamer geek staff of mine discovered it lsast night,they have every console available from the SNES onwards and once chosen by the gamer they sit down on individual sofas and have them hooked up to wall mounted flat screen tvs,they also have a state of the art PC room and a room for film nights-so imagine alcohol andd gaming on their top spec equipment,or a bunch of lord of the rings geeks doing their thing....whatever that is.:cool:

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Who me?
Oh I dunno.

Lots of stuff. Like for example tonight I went into work after every one had left and put black lids on all the blue pens. It's a comment on class segregation in the work place. I call it fart hands. Before I swapped the pension I farted on my hands. But that's not important right now.

Cambridge is nice OP.

I have lived, worked and travelled the length and breadth of the U.K. and Edinburgh and Cambridge are outstanding.
Oxford, York and Chester are all stunning but if anybody wants to go for a city break don't look further than Cambridge and Edinburgh.
I lived in Edinburgh and East Lothian for six years and never got tired of that city.