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Old August 3rd, 2010, 04:44 PM   #71
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My goodness, the Anglo-Franco antipathy still lives. I'm not surprised. A good friend was once married to an English woman and she detested the French. She thought their loos were filthy and that's why England and France were at war for so long.
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I'm now in the planning stages for next spring and summer and I'd like to take a trip to the UK...

Any suggestions/advice?
You could always venture forth up to Scotland. There's plenty of spectacular scenery to view - Loch Ness, Ben Nevis, Loch Lomond, Ben Arthur, etc, etc. How about a vist to Skye? - but remember to take your insect repellent with you. Those mozzies are everywhere this time of the year.
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You could always venture forth up to Scotland.
... and if you can pick up the accent, it'll help enormously if you then go to France. In the main, French people do not have a problem with the Scots!
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A couple more thoughts- if you're spending time in London, you're not far from Kent.

Though the town itself is a bit of a hole the Chatham area (about 30 miles from London) has a couple of places of interest if you're into military stuff-
The Historic Dockyard is one of the former naval dockyards where much of the Royal Navy was built and maintained (Nelson's HMS Victory was a Chatham ship), and features 3 historic warships
http://www.thedockyard.co.uk/
...and the Royal Engineers Museum in nearby Gillingham, which tells the story of military engineering in the British Army http://www.remuseum.org.uk/
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You could always venture forth up to Scotland. There's plenty of spectacular scenery to view - Loch Ness, Ben Nevis, Loch Lomond, Ben Arthur, etc, etc. How about a vist to Skye? - but remember to take your insect repellent with you. Those mozzies are everywhere this time of the year.
I've lived within sight of Ben Lomond for just about all of my life and I've never been up the bastard yet - my brother went up once but he was steaming drunk by the time he reached the top and can't remember much so if you do go be sure and tell us what it's like up there
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Since Kent has been mentioned, I would observe that the south east corner of England is full of attractions, among which are:
In Kent:
  1. Hever Castle: a really pretty Tudor mansion, called a "castle" because it technically has a moat. It was the childhood home of Lady Anne Boleyn and was much visited by King Henry VIII, both when he courted her and earlier when he was enjoying the favours of her older sister, Mary Boleyn. It has a small but rather informative waxwork museum, a maze very like the one at Hampton Court and the guided tour of the house is worth doing.
  2. Ten miles further east there is another National Trust property called Penshurst Place. This is where Henry used to stay when he was visiting Lady Anne. It possesses a classic medieval banqueting hall and minstrels' gallery and also has excellent gardens, colourful and beautifully maintained.
  3. Chartwell: on the Kent/Surrey border, with glorious views from the breakfast room over the green fields and hills of Surrey. Winston Churchill bought this house in the 1920s and lived here until shortly before he died, in 1965, except when he was Prime Minister and had to live in the official residences. The house and gardens are full of his larger than life personality and of the more refined and subtle presence of the tasteful Lady Clementine. The house is actually not very large and visitors are alloted a time to enter so it won't get too crowded. The grounds however cover many acres.

    In East Sussex
  4. The small walled town of Rye, on the Channel coast just on the border between Kent and East Sussex, is really pretty and full of interesting corners and little historical shaggy dog stories. It is one of the medieval Cinque Ports who got tax breaks from the Crown in return for helping to keep the Channel free from piracy and for defending the coast. For several centuries it was a classic haunt of smugglers.

    IF you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
    Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,
    Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
    Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.

    Five and twenty ponies,
    Trotting through the dark -
    Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
    Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
    Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!

    Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
    Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
    Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
    Put the brishwood back again - and they'll be gone next day !

    If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
    If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
    If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
    If the lining's wet and warm - don't you ask no more !

    If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
    You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
    If they call you " pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the chin,
    Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been !

    Knocks and footsteps round the house - whistles after dark -
    You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
    Trusty's here, and Pincher's here, and see how dumb they lie
    They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by !

    'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
    You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
    With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
    A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being good !
    Five and twenty ponies,
    Trotting through the dark -
    Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
    Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie -
    Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by !


    Henry James, the American author, lived at Lamb House, the largest house inside the old town walls for that last decades of his life. King George I stayed there too. In 1725 George, the founder of our current Royal Family, was returning to London from Hanover, where he was also the ruler. His ship was caught in a blizzard and a fierce storm and had to take refuge in Rye. The mayor, Mr Lamb, received him as a guest even though Mrs Lamb was in labour with their first child. The King, much more gentlemanly than any Stuart, refused to allow it when Mrs Lamb, in her confinement, wanted to move rooms to give the best room to her monarch. The Lambs treated their stranded chance-guest like royalty because, well...

    He stayed for over a week until the day when the new infant was christened and stood Godfather to Mr and Mrs Lamb's newborn child as a personal gesture of gratitude for the kindness they showed him. In fact, George was noted for being austere (even his two mistresses were ugly) and a real workaholic: his time in Rye was virtually the only occasion in his entire reign when he played truant and chilled out for a week. Visit Rye and you'll soon see what the attraction was.

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Since Kent has been mentioned, I would observe that the south east corner of England is full of attractions, among which are:
[*]The small walled town of Rye, on the Channel coast just on the border between Kent and East Sussex, is really pretty and full of interesting corners and little historical shaggy dog stories. It is one of the medieval Cinque Ports who got tax breaks from the Crown in return for helping to keep the Channel free from piracy and for defending the coast. For several centuries it was a classic haunt of smugglers.


Henry James, the American author, lived at Lamb House, the largest house inside the old town walls for that last decades of his life. King George I stayed there too. In 1725 George, the founder of our current Royal Family, was returning to London from Hanover, where he was also the ruler. His ship was caught in a blizzard and a fierce storm and had to take refuge in Rye. The mayor, Mr Lamb, received him as a guest even though Mrs Lamb was in labour with their first child. The King, much more gentlemanly than any Stuart, refused to allow it when Mrs Lamb, in her confinement, wanted to move rooms to give the best room to her monarch. The Lambs treated their stranded chance-guest like royalty because, well...

He stayed for over a week until the day when the new infant was christened and stood Godfather to Mr and Mrs Lamb's newborn child as a personal gesture of gratitude for the kindness they showed him. In fact, George was noted for being austere (even his two mistresses were ugly) and a real workaholic: his time in Rye was virtually the only occasion in his entire reign when he played truant and chilled out for a week. Visit Rye and you'll soon see what the attraction was.
Rye is also famous for another author EF Benson, who made rye into Tilling in the Mapp & Lucia novels (I highly recommend these to anyone who has never read them) its an achingly pretty seaside town, however it is very expensive to find an hotel room, so B&Bs might be the best option.
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I second the suggestion of Bletchley Park. There's so much there it needs a whole day though. If you do the guided tour they try to explain some of the maths behind the code breaking. I could follow some of it, thoguh the guide was going at breakneck speed. None of the other people I was with could though.


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There would be no point in expecting the French to speak English. Even the ones who can speak English wont, & if your French is passable, they will still treat you with disdain.
Not my experience. When I was in Paris with my girlfriend of the time, with only one exception everyone was extremely courteous and helpful while we struggled with our barely remembered school French. One person in Monmatre looked at us with disdain and started speaking English when we tried to order in French, but that was it. Everyone else was great.
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Not my experience. When I was in Paris with my girlfriend of the time, with only one exception everyone was extremely courteous and helpful while we struggled with our barely remembered school French. One person in Monmatre looked at us with disdain and started speaking English when we tried to order in French, but that was it. Everyone else was great.
That's my experience too of many visits to France , from Calais through to Paris through to StTropez I was always impressed by how pleasant and helpful the French people were.
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It's very strange. But as travelled as I am, i've never done a real tour of Britain. There is so much i'd like to see. Fleeting visits don't do it justice.
I've done London many times but a bit of quite countryside would be nice. And real ale! And real food. Bristol is one city i'd like to visit again.( I only spent 24 hours the last time )

Oh and yes i've got lost on the tube
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