Itinerary

[vilakins]

Just one day till I leave!

OK, this is an outline of what we're doing in the UK, not necessarily in strict order and depending on weather etc:

• Duxford air museum
• Star One con
• Bletchley Park
• Hay-on-Wye ( a village consisting completely of second-hand bookshops)
• Bath (Roman baths and a slap-up dinner at Demuth's
• Bristol (bridge and seeing spacefall)
  
• Newport (transporter bridge and seeing linda_joyce)
  
• Caerleon (Roman ruins)
• Portmeirion (Greg being a huge Prisoner fan)
• Blaenau-Ffestiniog railway (Greg's a ferro-equinologist, which is what my father called it)
• slate mines (for the third time in my case, the first in Greg's)
• canal trip including an aqueduct I'm sure I saw the Two Fat Ladies on in one of their programmes
  
• more canals: the Anderton Boatlift
• Gateshead Millennium Bridge
• the Falkirk wheel (yep, more canals!)
  
• Edinburgh (because we're nearby and it's such a lovely city)
• yet another canal with a tunnel Greg wants to go through
• York (Viking excavations, train museum, a friend of mine)
• tank museum at Thetford
• assorted walks and sidetrips that might attract us along the way
  

Yes, there are a lot of canals but we're assuming weather and time constraints might force us to cancel a couple of them. We'll also see the air museums at Cosford and/or Hendon if we get the time.

Hey, we're geeks!

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned how incredibly jealous I am? :)

Have a great time!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Oh, have fun in York! Jorvik is great.

Thank heavens you're doing Hay before the festival - it'll be booked solid during it. Shame in a way though, cos I'll be there on 31 May - 1 June!

When are you in Newport? Because assuming that's Newport Gwent, I live about 20 mins down the train line...

Enjoy

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Have a great time, it sounds a fantastic plan. Hopefully the weather will be kind for you.
Look forward to hearing all about it on your return, especially a word-for-word report on meeting MK!

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds ambitious. Have a good time! And if you get a chance, give MK a hug for me. That way you have an excuse.

;-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's the Newport with the transporter bridge, just across from Bristol. Maybe we can all meet up! We're hiring a car BTW so we'll be pretty flexible. Whereabouts are you?

As for Hay, we fancy a B&B in the area that Greg found on the web, which is organic vege.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will, once I'm there. Getting there is a right pain though.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'll have to take notes so I don't forget everything! I may do the occasional update on my LJ if, as I suspect he will, Greg has to dial in from a cybercafe to fix something for his work.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'd love to hug him; I hope I don't frighten him!

I've even printed out a copy of 'Vila's E-mails' for him, colour illos and all. I hope he accepts them. They might give him a laugh and they're completely harmless--like Vila and me!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Cardiff. Depends when you're there, but if I'm not teaching that'd be great - give me a buzz when you know dates!

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a good idea! I'm sure he'll love them. Wish I could be there to see you give them to him. :)

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Bounce! Ooh, I hope you'll have a fantastic time. Be sure to walk around Portmeirion *lots*, don't forget the forests and the beach. All those exotic plants are worth seeing, the forests are very romantic even if you tend to get out of breath scaling the steep hill/mountainsides!:) Make sure you get to Portmeirion early in the day, as they close the place at five or six, only the people who stay there are allowed in after that.

And I still want everyone to do a group hug for me at Star One;). Grr, you lucky sods:).

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're going to be busy. Looking forward to seeing you at Star One.

Gina

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Yep she means Newport Gwent, just in case you don't know we have a Transporter bridge. Which way is your 20 miles?

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Hey, we're geeks!

There's something wrong with that? I'm a full fledged geek about ancient ruins, nothing more modern than Norman. I do have a soft spot for canals though, having grown up with one practically on my doorstep. Do try to go on a horse drawn barge if there is one available on the canals you visit, that is the way to travel canals, in almost total silence with only the sounds of nature around you. Even my fellow tourists eventually shut up the twice I managed it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It'll be around the 26th to 28th or so; during the week, sorry.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'll even sign them. :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip! I've seen pics of the tropical gardens, they look lovely.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

The gardens are *very* beautiful.

They also make a very good sparring ground (http://www.squidge.org/snowgrouse/images/myykep.jpg) for litte moles (http://www.squidge.org/snowgrouse/images/myyrkep2.jpg)...:) (I just had to scan these in really quick for you. Mr. and Mrs. Mole decided to have a quarter-staff fight on one pretty, tiny slate bridge...)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too! At last count I'll meet at least five people I know. :-D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love the sound (or not) of that!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's so cute! They look like they're having fun.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Believe you me, they did:). We took them everywhere with us:)... (is not insane at all, no).