UK places you've never been to

[Finnegan]

Probably easier to name the places in the country I have been. Love to travel but let's be honest, most English cities are the same. 

 

You'll always get that guy that's going to convince you you've not lived til you've had a night out in Manchester or Newcastle but I'm not really convinced. I've been to Leeds and it was basically just Leicester but fractionally bigger. 

 

I've been shit faced in some trendy bars in Oxford, a few proper dives in Sheffield and a City roof top bar in London I really couldn't afford and it was all basically just beer with people I like. 

 

I'd like to see York, cos I love me a historic city on the continent. But other than that, meh. 

 

Edit: should caveat that by saying on the more rural side, we've got some stunning countryside in the UK and if you've never been to the Lake District, Snowdonia or the Heelunds, you could do worse than going for a wander.

 

Edited 28 February 2018 by Finnegan

[lgfualol]

I would love to see the top part of Scotland and the little islands. 

[Rogstanley]

I'd go Bath as being right up there with the best towns in the UK for a weekend away.

 

Keep it quiet though because we don't want the riff raff ruining it with stag do's and that.

[Nick]

4 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Probably easier to name the places in the country I have been. Love to travel but let's be honest, most English cities are the same. 

 

You'll always get that guy that's going to convince you you've not lived til you've had a night out in Manchester or Newcastle but I'm not really convinced. I've been to Leeds and it was basically just Leicester but fractionally bigger. 

 

I've been shit faced in some trendy bars in Oxford, a few proper dives in Sheffield and a City roof top bar in London I really couldn't afford and it was all basically just beer with people I like. 

 

I'd like to see York, cos I love me a historic city on the continent. But other than that, meh. 

 

Edit: should caveat that by saying on the more rural side, we've got some stunning countryside in the UK and if you've never been to the Lake District, Snowdonia or the Heelunds, you could do worse than going for a wander.

 

If London roof terrace bars were pricey, don’t even think about going to York and buying alcohol in the town centre!

[Finnegan]

Just now, Swan Lesta said:

If London roof terrace bars were pricey, don’t even think about going to York and buying alcohol in the town centre!

 

 

Got to love tourist traps. 

 

I was fortunate with the London gaff, it all went on a mate's corporate credit card. Great stuff. 

 

I'd have been skint after one beer otherwise. 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Durnerz said:

Went there with City in Ranieri's last season, I too was expecting it to be a decent city, its an absolute shithole but strangely full of posh people.

Agreed on that - one city I thought would be fairly decent and it was crap. 

 

Thanks to work, following City, trying to do the 92 and taking the missus away on the occasional weekend, there are very few places I haven't been. 

 

However, Glasgow, Belfast and the New Forest are on the list. Possibly Canterbury as well. 

[Nick]

I went there for a wedding last year, walked in to a bar ordered two pints of decent lager and let’s just say it was closer to 15 quid than a tenner!

 

[RonnieTodger]

York, Oxford, Bath, Cornwall and I've never been to Skegness which is nuts considering I've lived in Leicester all my life. 

 

Until Newcastle away this season I'd never been further north than Leeds, so still not seen any of Scotland. Never seen Northern Ireland and haven't seen any Wales other than Cardiff.

Edited 28 February 2018 by RonnieTodger

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Never been North of Leeds 

[Voll Blau]

11 hours ago, Strokes said:

I love Dunbar, Belhaven beach is wicked.

All I remember is it being freezing. Most of my holidays as a kid were at various English seaside resorts so I grew up swimming in fairly cold waters, but up there it was beyond the pale.

 

3 hours ago, Vacamion said:

 

Sorry @Vollblau but when you say you like Northern Irish accents on women, I just think of:

 

I had a fit-ish French teacher at school who was from that neck of the woods, so that's probably what's stuck with me.

[Guest MattP]

18 minutes ago, Swan Lesta said:

I went there for a wedding last year, walked in to a bar ordered two pints of decent lager and let’s just say it was closer to 15 quid than a tenner!

The Forge in Glenfield charges over £5 for a pint of Peroni now.

 

I get more annoyed in London at the prices of bottles than pints, sometimes I just want a quick Bud or Corona in a hotel if I'm in a rush and to get asked for £6-7 for it is offensive.

Edited 28 February 2018 by MattP

[davieG]

None of the Islands except the IOW

Bristol

Cardiff, Swansea (passed through them)

Newcastle

 

[Benguin]

I'm well travelled in the UK. My favorite cities are Glasgow, Inverness, Newcastle and Leicester. 

 

Places still to visit are many of the islands in Scotland and South wales. 

[Rain King]

I've never been to London other than for football matches so have seen none of the sights.

[notnow john]

11 hours ago, Milo said:

I like the idea of going to the Shetlands/Orkneys...

 

...but I feel the effort of getting up there would be greater than the enjoyment of actually being there 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although might be worth it just for that bonkers accent

Shetland is fantastic, if you're interested in wildlife ,history and brooding emptiness.I'll return one day.

Something of a surprise though was the police with sniffer dogs boarding the ferry at Lerwick apparrently

they have a drug problem in the town ,which is blamed on the oil rig workers.

Orkneys were a bit disappointing.

 

 

[pSinatra]

Went to York with the missus last summer.  I don't remember it being that pricey.  Some great pubs (& a lot of them) within the city walls.  Been on a lot of city breaks within the UK but don't remember getting as lost as we usually were in York, but that probably had more to do with the number of pubs we went in.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Never been to the National Space Centre, despite it being in my home city and being a big fan of space exploration.

 

It's the kind of thing where if it had been in Nottingham or Derby, or dare I say, Coventry, then I'd have arranged a day out to visit it.

 

Of the major cities in the UK, the only ones I've never been to are Manchester, Liverpool, Swansea and Cardiff. I'm not in a hurry to change this.

[Crinklyfox]

I'd like to visit the Scilly Isles.  I lived in Cornwall for a number of years but never went further west.  The remoteness appeals to me, as do a couple of the smaller Channel Islands such as Sark and Alderney.

[Tuna]

I'd also like to visit, never been, to Scotland, Newcastle, Devon/Cornwall and maybe The Isle Of Wight. Been to Guernsey so Jersey appeals as well.

[RoboFox]

Visited most areas in the UK, and pretty much all major cities bar Liverpool. Never had reason to go to Merseyside. Will make time for it eventually as it's supposed to be a good night out.

[peach0000]

Only place I want to go in the UK that I've not been to is the giants causeway and northern ireland as a whole. Pretty much covered mainland britain.

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Tuna said:

I'd also like to visit, never been, to Scotland, Newcastle, Devon/Cornwall and maybe The Isle Of Wight. Been to Guernsey so Jersey appeals as well.

I went Jersey for work and found the whole experience odd. 

 

It's a small island that you can drive around in twenty minutes but there's so much money there it's unreal. A local will say 'this is the best place for a drink' and you question 'you what? It looks like well average'. The quality of life is clearly good and I spoke to a chap who'd be working there for eight years, he enjoys it with a flight back home every other weekend. But I couldn't help feeling I'd be bored off my tits living there. Anything public owned by the island is stuck in the 1980s and apparently half of  the island watches the rugby every Saturday there as they are the only professional sports team. 

[Vacamion]

3 hours ago, lgfualol said:

I would love to see the top part of Scotland and the little islands. 

 

Wick is only a 6 and a half hour drive from my house in Glasgow ... the scenery at the top of Scotland (Caithness) is stunning.

 

As for the islands, I've been to Kirkwall (Orkneys), Islay, Lewis, Scalpay , Harris, Mull, Iona, Skye, and Arran .

 

Skye and Arran are the pick.

 

[Guest]

Think I've been almost everywhere in Great Britain. So many wonderful places throughout the kingdom. However I've never been to anywhere in Northern Ireland.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

14 hours ago, The Doctor said:

dont think I've been to Wales, so nothing of any relevance missed.

 

@Finnegan he's mugging you off here mate, defend yourself