Reply With QuoteBath? Lovely city and you can potter around the area easily enough.
Hi all. We want to take a short 3-4 day city break in the UK next year. Probably April/May and travelling by train. We have done Edinburgh and York this year so looking for somewhere different.
We thought about Berwick upon Tweed anybody know the area?
Any suggestions welcome, bearing in mind old fogey/sightseeing suitability rather than nightlife/clubbing!!!
Thanks
Ian
Bath? Lovely city and you can potter around the area easily enough.
Glasgow?
There is eff all in Berwick upon tweed. Me and the Mrs went there for a day in the summer as it’s only a 50 minute drive. We walked up one side of the high street looking at a dozen charity shops then another dozen on way back down. Think we left 45 mins after arrival!
Inverness, or Glasgow?
I'd be doing York:
- Museum
- Railway museum
- Minster
- etc
All fairly compact, unless you fancy the Yorkshire Air Museum or a look at the countryside.
Would not advise B-u-T, only beautiful thing is the walk on the hills above the seafront, where the golf course is. Bath is perfect for a long weekend or may be Lincoln (just for the Cathedral quarter)
Alternatively, train to Brussels or Bruges or Paris
BWs
F
I spent a day in Bath last year and I think I'd seen everything I wanted to, not sure I`d spend 3-4 days there without a car.
If the OP fancied York again he could easily have a day in Leeds or even Manchester, the rail link is very good. York's nice for eating and drinking on an evening so he could use it as a base.
Might not appeal to everyone, and I certainly wouldn`t suggest 3-4 days, but there's some good stuff to see in Hull for a day. The old town area's v. nice.....and there's always Blowers to visitYork-Hull by train's an easy one too.
Paul
Berwick upon Tweed isn't really my idea of a city break.Originally Posted by oldoakknives
Do you just mean somewhere nice for a break?
Depends on where your starting from, for three to four days I wouldn’t want to be having to change trains 4 or 5 times to get there and back.
Manchester, Liverpool and London have lots of options even if it’s day trips out from there on the train.
Bath.
"A man of little significance"
Perth & Sterling are both nice places.
Newcastle?
Bath for a day or two and then a short trip along the line to Bristol, plenty to see and do over four days.
If you do Newcastle you could jump on the train for a day out and it’s only a short ride to Durham which is also rather nice.
Bath - lived there for 50 years. My kind of town!
Another vote for Bath - plenty to see and do and easily enough to fill 2-3 days.
Bruges also highly recommended.
Plenty to see in Oxford too.
Last edited by vortgern; 17th October 2017 at 19:24.
Well 'city' or town, just a nice area with things to see I suppose, yes.
TBH Durham was one possibility.
Thanks for the ideas guys much appreciated.
Leeds-Carlisle (via Settle)-Glasgow-(if time somewhere on the line to Mallaig, but not a city).
Last edited by BillyCasper; 17th October 2017 at 19:00.
Bath is great as previously mentioned but plenty of options for day trips - Bristol (20 mins on the train) Gloucester / Cheltenham / Cardiff and er Weston-Super-Mare
I'll second this suggestion after visiting my son at University last weekend, it really is a beautiful city and I'm quite ashamed to say I thought it wasn't going to be a pleasant trip. Chester is nice and I'd consider Whitby
Norwich is well worth a visit. Spent three years there in the early 1980s as an undergraduate at UEA and didn't want to leave. Spend a week there and you can also use it as a base to visit Cambridge and Lincoln.
Winchester. Not sure about three days though.
Fas est ab hoste doceri
London, plenty to see and do for a few days.
Bath
London
Brighton
Manchester
Or hop on the Eurostar!
Some great suggestions there thanks.
Will check them out and see what the possibilities are with trains and nice hotels.
Ian
Belfast
Dublin
Cork
Edinburgh
Madrid
M
Cardiff - then you can say you have been aboard.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I could probably knock up three suitably different pub crawls but apart from that I can't think of what anyone would do once they'd had a look at the cathedral and all 10 or so museums.
"A man of little significance"
"New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop musik..."
If you come to the NE then I'd say stay in Newcastle as your base. You can be in Durham in 13mins on the train for a day out, take a train up the Tyne valley, or go over to the coast on the Metro. Of course you also have the museums, art galleries and shopping in the Toon, as well as the restaurants and pubs........ lots of these!
F.T.F.A.
Well looks like Durham or Newcastle it will be. Durham most likely can still get to Newcastle as well.
Just got to find a nice hotel now.
Thanks again to everyone!!
No mention of Norwich, it’s a fine city.
I did in post 21. Loved my time at UEA.
Blame y ffestiniog railway through north Wales and Snowdonia is amazing
Get the train to Manchester...for the next GTG!
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