UK bucket list

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What's on your bucket list of things to see and do in the UK? Not just attractions but events? Some of mine are:

Last night of the proms
Wimbledon
Stonehenge and Avebury
Houses of parliament visit
Edinburgh festival
Up Helly Aa
St Kilda visit

I've not done all of these!! Anyone else care to contribute?

Edinburgh festival
Womad festival
Hay Festival
Glyndebourne

Burgh Island
Scilly isles

Havent done any of them yet though so might be shit! 😄

Great thread, OP. I'm 50 in 2024 and will start a visiting list to celebrate!

Worbarrow Bay and Worbarrow Snout just down a footpath from Tyneham.

Come back and say what you did!!

Cricket at Lords. Biggest beer garden in UK!

A nighttime production at the Minack (been there in the day).
Return to Lundy during puffin season and stay in Tibbetts.
Racing at Cheltenham
Visit Soho Square and sit on Kirstys seat

Im heading back home tomorrow, I live in Wiltshire, next to Avebury. Might have to pop over to Imber and show my Imber (labrador) the village he's named after!

Ironbridge
Scilly Isles
Hebrides
Glasgow to Mallaig by train
Ravenglass
Peak District

On my list...

Golf at St Andrews
HMS Victory at Portsmouth
Anglesey
Climb Snowden
The Scottish 'Route 66'
Isle of Wight
Isle of Man
Big festival - Glastonbury or similar
Climb over the O2 (if you can still do it)
Top level football match at Wembley
Le Manoir au Quatre Saisons (+ lots of other top restaurants)
Walk the Pennine Way (or bits of it)
Shetland
Opera at Glyndebourne
Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
Henley Regatta
Burgh Island
Last Night of the Proms

Oh, also..

London to Inverness on a sleeper train.

Places I’ve been (and enjoyed):

Titanic Exhibition in Belfast

The Edinburgh festival

Tintagel

Stonehenge and Avebury (not everyone “gets” Stonehenge, and compares it unfavourably to other places, such as Macchu Picchu. But Stonehenge is much, much older and appears to have astronomical significance).

The National Gallery in London

Dennis Severs’ House in London

Glastonbury (not the festival, but the strange little town, including the Tor and Chalice Well Gardens)

The beautiful train ride along the South Coast from Exeter and over the Tamar bridge into Cornwall

Isle of Lewis and Harris. We stayed in Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, went kayaking and visited the standing stones at Callanish, amongst other things. I throughly recommend it.

Durdle Dor and Lulworth Cove, Dorset - gorgeous

Places still on my list:

St Kilda

Lundy

Burgh Island

The West Highland Railway

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (a Hindu temple in London)

Is the Scotland route 66 the North Coast 500? I've done a lot of it, but not in one go. The Beleach na ba is memorable!!! Can also recommend the Mallaig train, steam train definitely the best option!

Seriously don't bother. It was so boring. However the SS Nomadic was amazing. www.titanicbelfast.com/explore/ss-nomadic/

Adding lots to my list! Callanish is v impressive, forgot to add on my recommendations.

St Kilda is very high on my list. Went to the outer Hebrides earlier this year. Sadly we were a week too early for the boat trip. It is quite pricey.

Glastonbury the town
Stonehenge

St Michael's Mount
Lindisfarne
Anglesey
Orkney
Shetland
Staffa
John O Groats
Birmingham
Liverpool
Manchester
Sheffield
Newcastle
The Kelpies
The Angel of the North
North Coast 500.

I think I’d have to save up for St Kilda!

I forgot to mention the Isle of Skye. I only visited briefly and didn’t see the Fairy Pools, but did see some amazing scenery, including waterfalls. Going past Eilean Donan castle on the way was the icing on the cake. It’s easy to take great photos there.

Skye is incredible - so many out of this world places to visit. See my user name! No wonder it's been a location for so many films.

St Kilda is v expensive and difficult to visit but I think you can volunteer with the national trust...

Ooh thanks for reminding me about Imber! Some of my favourite places I've been that haven't come up so far are:

The UNESCO WHS castles of North Wales (Caernarfon, Beaumaris, Conwy and my favourite, Harlech)

Orford Ness

Lindisfarne

Hiring a boat and travelling around the Norfolk broads

The Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral

Kew Garden, RHS Wisley, Beth Chatto Garden

Seven sisters cliffs and cuckmere haven

The beaches on the north coast of Scotland and Sutherland and Caithness generally

I've been to Cheltenham twice. Got the winner at 40/1 in 1992 and the second at 66/1 in 2003...
I've sat on Kirstys bench too.

The Mary Rose in Portsmouth - astonishing

I still try to find time to go to Skara Brae.

We did Stonehenge/Avebury, it is strange. It doesn‘t seem anything special but if you think about it, it totally is.

House of Parliament - yes, do it. They have a great children tour as well.

We did a boat trip to the seals in Norfolk, so great.

Scotland and the Stone of Scone and the Honours of Scotland

Fishbourne Roman Palace or any other Roman settlement. Civilisation lost so much when the Romans left.

Mother Shipton's cave
Forbidden corner
The aircraft museum where concord is
Shetland/ Orkney /Isle of Skye
The Cotswolds

I'd like to drive the Lands end / John o 'groats route

We went to Wales 2 years ago and visited the castles. I think Edward I would turn in his grave seeing the Welch dragon flag at his castles.