Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Postmaster
Steve Cottrell wrote: >On 16/4/19, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>We are staying a few days in the Cotswolds - Painswick area right >>outside Gloucester. We are using it as a base to foray out to see the >>medieval. A time in Bath, over to Avebury, a time to Wye Valley. We

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Bob Pdml
Maiden Castle is in Dorset, not really the Cotswolds, but doable if they have a car. I love Maiden Castle and the whole of West Dorset. If they are literary-historical types and are in the area I recommend a trip to Bincombe with a copy of Hardy's "The Melancholy Hussar". > On 16 Apr 2019, at

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Bob Pdml
If they're in that area they should also visit Wells., which is still medieval, and Britain's smallest city. http://www.visitwellssomerset.co.uk/ Stonehenge too, of course. There's so much good food in London it can be impossible to choose and you end up eating McDonalds... I would recommend a

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
If you're in the Cotswolds and going to Avebury, up the Fossway there's a Roman Villa that's worth a visit. In the general area, there's a wonderful earthworks called "Maiden's Castle" that's worth a half day hike, and of course there's the huge Uffington White Horse and the walk along the

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread mike wilson
> On 16 April 2019 at 19:09 Steve Cottrell wrote: > > > On 16/4/19, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >We are staying a few days in the Cotswolds - Painswick area right > >outside Gloucester. We are using it as a base to foray out to see the > >medieval. A time in Bath, over to

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread mike wilson
> On 16 April 2019 at 15:55 Larry Colen wrote: > > > I've got a couple of friends from the Oregon coast heading to GB in a > short while. There are quite a few folks on this list that live, or > visit that part of the world, though my memory and geographic knowledge > isn't good enough to

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 16/4/19, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >We are staying a few days in the Cotswolds - Painswick area right >outside Gloucester. We are using it as a base to foray out to see the >medieval. A time in Bath, over to Avebury, a time to Wye Valley. We >spend two night in London on the

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
If you're in the Cotswolds and going to Avebury, up the Fossway there's a Roman Villa that's worth a visit. In the general area, there's a wonderful earthworks called "Maiden's Castle" that's worth a half day hike, and of course there's the huge Uffington White Horse and the walk along the

Re: OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Sandy Harris
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:56 AM Larry Colen wrote: > > I've got a couple of friends from the Oregon coast heading to GB in a > short while. An online travel guide: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/United_Kingdom > In a FB Messenger discussion, Mark said: > We are staying a few days in the

OT, looking for some GB travel advice for a couple of friends

2019-04-16 Thread Larry Colen
I've got a couple of friends from the Oregon coast heading to GB in a short while. There are quite a few folks on this list that live, or visit that part of the world, though my memory and geographic knowledge isn't good enough to know if anyone is within even a day's drive. But, if anyone