Lucy VeryTasty wrote:jra wrote:Rolluplostinspace wrote:jra wrote:Travelling.
Outside of democratic Europe, the only places I would consider going to are the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Japan.
I wouldn't mind going back to the Lake District out of season, because both times I was there last, it was raining most of the time.
Scotland. I've never managed to make it there, yet it's so easy from where I live, e.g. from Stevenage for the ECML, and Milton Keynes for the WCML. A bit embarrassing really.
Towns/cities in the UK. Edinburgh, York, Durham. Again, oop north.
The Science and Natural History museums, London.
The National Rail Museum (York).
Travel on a class 91 train before they are phased out, by the class 800 Azumas.
The lake district gets its lakes from .....
Smart Alec. It rains a lot in south Wales as well, but they aren't that many lakes. It's simply down to the topography of the land.
Check the long range weather forecast before you go to the lakes again.
Of course, not that UK weather is particularly predicable, anything but, even nowadays.
This was in the 1980's. It wasn't so easy in those days. I didn't even have a TV at the time, let alone internet access.
Anyway, it only cost £10 to get there and back on one occasion from Swindon.
It was a promotion by British Rail that you could get a return ticket to anywhere on the BR network called Mad March Fares, either for a fiver or a tenner depending on how far you were going. Plus, we stayed at youth hostels (YHA) which were cheap as chips in those days, if you were prepared to rough it a bit.
It was worth taking the risk.
I've been hill walking all day when it's been pissing down, but as I had the right equipment and clothing it wasn't that big a deal.
ETA. The younger generation are pampered these days, like little babies, with modern technology. I and others my age managed just fine without the internet, mobile phones, PCs and all the other technology stuff. A mobile phone back in the 80's was a red telephone box.
We still got things done though by planning in advance.