i find the Brits dry sense of humour absolutely brilliant. Thoroughly enjoy the pub culture, the rolling countryside of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the men, their accents, the close proximity of other countries (more reasonable to travel there than vancouver). ah, the list could go on…
The pub culture these days involves getting as many pints down your neck before closing time at 11pm, since then you have to go to a club where the beer is much more expensive!
Not that you have to follow the culture that closely!
And you’ve forgotten Wales – there’s some amazing countryside there. The joke is that if Wales was flattened out it would be bigger than England.
Are you the Lola that The Kinks sang about?
I’ve been to the UK a handful of times with my last visit in September. And I can say confidently that I’m definitely NOT the Lola that The Kinks sang about :)
And on one of my stints in the UK, I did make my way through Wales—and yes, gorgeous countryside (and beaches too!)
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What a day that was.
Next time you’re over, lets find a mountain to climb – one of my 43 things is to climb a mountain every month…
sounds good on the mountain climbing… but if it’s mountains you’re looking for you should hit the pacific northwest (in North America).
A mountain is a land formation caused when the gentle upwelling of the earth is divided by streams and glaciers into upland areas divided by valleys.
You don’t have mountains in the Pacific Northwest. You have VOLCANOES!!! Great, fire-breathing, forest-destroying, town-shattering, earth-moving VOLCANOES!!!
When I go walking in the mountains of Britain, I can be pretty sure that if I go back ten years later it’ll still be there. I went to Mount St Helens. It was gone. The summit is halfway to Seattle.
Stupidly I’m probably going back to Seattle this August. No, I loved it really, great place.
timbot is still here.
Just thinking of some of the wee pubs I visited on my trip to the UK makes me thirsty. I have two friends who moved there and love it. They like all the things you mentioned and I’m jealous but know that I’ve got a place to stay when I visit again. Never a dull moment, unless that’s what you want, a dull dreary day nursing a Guinness in some out of the way place. Cheers.
yessssssss… i’ve spent hours hanging out in pubs around the UK… as well as (the republic of) Ireland and have always thoroughly enjoyed chatting with the locals who are “in for their pint” or watching a great hurling (now that’s an incredibly frightening sport), rugby or cricket (i still don’t understand how this game works!!) match. and while i have several good friends scattered throughout the UK (who live there), i’m still inflicted with a bad case of country-envy and soooo would love to live there. even if it was just for a year or so. i think it’d be brilliant!
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