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The Best UK Holiday Destination Is...

The Red Robin
The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
edited November 2009 in Not Sports Related
Following the Michael MacIntyre / Chris Dickson / Phil Parkinson poll I invite you all to nominate your favourite place in the UK - even if it is too expensive to go there on Holiday! - For me it is The Lake District, closely followed by The Peak District and then Bournemouth.
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  • Lake District:
    Especially Burneside & Kendal.

    and The I.O.W:
    Sandown & Shanklin.
  • 101
    101 Posts: 2,456
    For a holiday Canterbury best place in the UK obviously is SE 7.
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,337
    Caister ....
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Southwold.
  • Northwich on a sunny november weekend
  • 101
    101 Posts: 2,456
    [cite]Posted By: The Vics[/cite]Northwich on a sunny november weekend

    Well see if you can compete with the so called garden of England Kent (were i am now based) lol you wouldnt belive it got that name if you ever visited Margate :-)
  • [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: The Vics[/cite]Northwich on a sunny november weekend

    Well see if you can compete with the so called garden of England Kent (were i am now based) lol you wouldnt belive it got that name if you ever visited Margate :-)

    Or Dartford, Crayford, Erith.... Anyone seen the 'Garden of England' sign outside the dump on Thames Road?
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    The Valley
  • 101
    101 Posts: 2,456
    [cite]Posted By: The Red Robin[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: The Vics[/cite]Northwich on a sunny november weekend

    Well see if you can compete with the so called garden of England Kent (were i am now based) lol you wouldnt belive it got that name if you ever visited Margate :-)

    Or Dartford, Crayford, Erith.... Anyone seen the 'Garden of England' sign outside the dump on Thames Road?

    Yep thats very amusing welcome to Kent :-). Well talking of Kent who saw that discrace of a town we played at 2 weeks ago erm were was it now...........................

    o thats it GILLINGHAM garden of England my left foot.
  • Cornwall. just got back from a week there and it was stunning, especially st ives and st michael's mount.
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  • 101
    101 Posts: 2,456
    [cite]Posted By: billy cotton[/cite]Cornwall. just got back from a week there and it was stunning, especially st ives and st michael's mount.

    Yea parents have friends in Lyme Regis which i think is Cornwall either way its that way and is very nice i agree.
  • Wilma
    Wilma Posts: 1,618
    Dorset, Devon and Cornwall all lovely. South Wales has brilliant beaches. IOW good too but mainly because I get free holidays there!

    If Kent is the Garden of England, then Gillingham is the compost heap in the corner :-)
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    Barnsley - First class meat and potato pies
  • 101
    101 Posts: 2,456
    Yea true Wilma lol another laugh out load at work comment but dont know weather anyone had to go through Chatham atall that and Margate really are the worst places in the world lol.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Plenty of beautiful places in the UK.

    The Northumberland coast has some lovely spots and (at least when I've been there) has the added merit of not getting too crowded. Wales has lovely beaches as does Cornwall as already mentioned. I also like the North Devon Coastline. Inland the North Yorkshire Moors take a lot of beating particularly if you find a nice pub serving a decent pint of proper bitter. (I realise bitter is a minority drink nowadays and Eurofizz lager is the drink of choice for many).
  • 101
    101 Posts: 2,456
    I have herd the Yorkshire dales are ment to be lush also Wales North and South is ment to have some really nice spots so i have been told i have only been there for football purposes so not sure but have been told theree are lovely parts of Wales. Lets just all agree this country as a whole is the best in the world :-)
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    Leysdown on Sea...
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: billy cotton[/cite]Cornwall. just got back from a week there and it was stunning, especially st ives and st michael's mount.

    Yea parents have friends in Lyme Regis which i think is Cornwall either way its that way and is very nice i agree.

    It's in Dorset.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    edited November 2009
    [cite]Posted By: RedZed333[/cite]Leysdown on Sea is an armpit...

    I finished your sentence for you

    used to go when I was a kid and it seemed awesome - went about 10 years ago and it was epically pants

    my faves are Cornwall or up near Loch Ness
  • Living in the middle of the fens it would have to be somewhere with hills...

    Probably the lake district, followed by the Scottish highlands finished of with north Wales (Three peaks challenge anyone?)

    Thought the train journey from Newcastle to Carlisle at the weekend went through some stunning countryside, shame about the bone shaker train!
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  • Witton.
  • Living in a holiday destination I suppose I also see the worst of it as well i.e. crowds, drunks, traffic, litter, etc but when all you grockles have gone home it's still a lovely place to live, by and large. Quite like the winters down here as the beach is often empty and the waves are crashing in.

    Lots of nice places mentioned above (exc Gillingham) but Cornwall's especially lovely IMO.
  • holyjo
    holyjo Posts: 1,326
    Cornwall - just come back from South of Liskeard...........beautiful fishing, walking,shooting, cycling etc

    Isle of Wight also remarkably nice in the Summer.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Isle of Skye, especially the bit near the Talisker distillery!
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,342
    Weymouth or Maplethorpe
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Just about anywhere in Devon or Cornwall - take your pick.
  • the tin mines and anything else in Cornwall, black gang chine IOW...............
  • It's Embra, despite all the snooty poofs. :-)
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    [cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]Caister ....

    Did you go?
  • Haven't seen enough of England proper to comment comprehensively, but almost anywhere in Scotland qualifies in my books, and I loved Snowdonia. We've also really enjoyed our visits to both (London)derry and Belfast (really!)...

    I suppose it depends on what one wants from a holiday!