Re: Travel to Great Britain - 7 days driving tour... please help

On 29 Oct 2005 21:19:13 -0700, clone.of.snake@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I am not too familiar with GB, I just looked at the maps, does my
>planned route make sense? Is there enough time? Should I give up on
>going too far North? (No Scotland?). Please also kindly recommend some
>good places to visit, and I'll do more research. I've bought the Lonely
>Planet Great Britain guide book and Bill Bryson's "Notes from a Small
>Island".

Instant reaction is that you are trying to do too much. Edinburgh or
Glasgow is a fairly full day's drive from London. If you're
determined to see Scotland either go by plane or train as a side=trip
and consider renting a car separately if you want to go outside
Edinburgh or Glasgow (you don't need a car within either city), or
drive there and back with stops on the way and stick to stopping in
places which are fairly close to a straight line between London and
Scotland

Martin

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