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I am a prodigious reader. Many of my favorite authors are English (eg Agatha Christie; Dorothy Sayers; etc), and as a result I've always been keen on the UK.
I have visited England five times (sort of). The first time was in 1991, the second time was in 1994, the third time in March 1995 and the most recent trip I don't really consider a trip to England because all I did was change planes when I flew to/from Oslo in March 1999. The format of the first few trips is similar; fly into London, rent a car and then toured the country staying in bed & breakfast places along the way. We always took a leisurely pace, stay on back roads most of the time and poking into all the interesting nooks along the way.
The first trip we went to Wales, down to Land's End (SW England) and also to Dover & across to France on the Hovercraft.
The second trip I flew over a week before I was to meet my folks in Dover. This was mostly so I could visit some places related to my Space Group. The first day I spent recovering from jet lag, near Windsor Castle. The next day I was driving toward London when I picked up a couple of Hungarian girls hitch-hiking, and wound up taking them to Dover. I spent the night a little ways north of Dover. The next day I visited the British Interplanetary Society in London and had a nice talk with them. That evening I drove to Wales. The following day I visited the Centre for Alternative Technologies, and had an excellent tour of their facility. The next day I returned to Dover, and the following morning met up with my folks and some (distant) cousins. From there we went to see Stonehenge and then drove part way back to London, for my cousins had to fly back the next day.
Over the next couple of weeks my folks and I drove to Hay on Wye, up to York, Scotland, Hadrian's Wall and then back to London.
The next trip was with Frankie (my girlfriend) in 1995. We did a very fast tour (7 days), covering most of England, parts of Wales and (just barely) into Scotland. Then she had to return to Alaska to get back to school; I went to Germany and biked across Germany Austria and to Bratislava (Slovakia). Then I took a train to Krakow (Poland), and then returned to London where I spent 5 days (part of which I was attending a conference on closed ecologies, at which I gave a paper on Mars Base 0--this being the main excuse for the entire trip!)
Passed through Heathrow Airport, on the way to Oslo (Norway), Frankie and I spent about 2 hours on the way over and 1.5 on the way back. We didn't even go through customs.
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