TFoF Members suggestions of where to visit in the UK.

3rdforum wrote: Well that's after covering all the places I was going to mention! Not much point in me adding any contribution to the rest of this thread!!

I've lost all my photos though 3rdforum, so once you can upload...fill your boots!

You forgot about the Giants Causeway!

Perfectspecimen wrote:You forgot about the Giants Causeway!

We've got the other end of the "Giant's Causeway" in Fingal's Cave on the Island of Staffa!

Fingal's Cave

Only been to Scotland once, place called Dunfermline, wet and cold. Edinburgh Festival sounds good.

Perfectspecimen wrote:Only been to Scotland once, place called Dunfermline, wet and cold. Edinbrough Festival sounds good.

Haha! You forgot "nothing to do"!

PS EdinBURGH! (They're touchy about that over there)

Yep, it looked wrong!

I've been to Edinburgh several times ( mostly for rugby) and I've got to say that it is one of the world's great cities. It has everything, history to museums,great pubs, wonderful shops (if you're into that) and to top it all off, the friendliest people on earth ( Irish excepted of course!). Tbh, this is typical of most Scottish people. Must be their Irish ancestry!! :bigsmile:

3rdforum wrote:I've been to Edinburgh several times ( mostly for rugby) and I've got to say that it is one of the world's great cities. It has everything, history to museums,great pubs, wonderful shops (if you're into that) and to top it all off, the friendliest people on earth ( Irish excepted of course!). Tbh, this is typical of most Scottish people. Must be their Irish ancestry!!

You forgot a sodding great castle in the sky above you as well!

If it weren't for the Scoti tribe...

Great Thread this..... Apart from Gatwick Departure lounge being a very nice place there are so many.
To 3F, you keep plugging your homeland mate, nice place.
One of my great local ones is Cuckmere through to Beachy head.

Cuckmere Valley.

Might rain a lot in Scotland but if you get a Crisp winters day in some areas it is stunning. The Ed Fest is also great and not been for years but the grassmarket and up around there and Rose street used to be great.

Topdog wrote:Might rain a lot in Scotland but if you get a Crisp winters day in some areas it is stunning. The Ed Fest is also great and not been for years but the grassmarket and up around there and Rose street used to be great.

Rose Street is great for bars! There's loads of them down there, all waiting to take your money!

Belfast is well worth a trip, you wouldn't even have to change your money! The Titanic quarter is good ( you can go up to the top of "Goliath" the crane in the Harland and Wolfe shipyard). Plenty of pubs ( a lot of them have live music with excellent bands and cover acts )shops. If you go, a tour/trip down the Falls road and the Shankill road is a must. It is a complete eye opener. We drove down the Shankill last time in 2 southern reg cars. Nothing happened but I kept my foot hovering above the accelerator all the same!

3rdforum wrote:Belfast is well worth a trip, you wouldn't even have to change your money! The Titanic quarter is good ( you can go up to the top of "Goliath" the crane in the Harland and Wolfe shipyard). Plenty of pubs ( a lot of them have live music with excellent bands and cover acts )shops. If you go, a tour/trip down the Falls road and the Shankill road is a must. It is a complete eye opener. We drove down the Shankill last time in 2 southern reg cars. Nothing happened but I kept my foot hovering above the accelerator all the same!

Mmmm.....been down there in my squaddie uniform in the 70s. Eye-opener right enough.

3rdforum wrote:Belfast is well worth a trip, you wouldn't even have to change your money! The Titanic quarter is good ( you can go up to the top of "Goliath" the crane in the Harland and Wolfe shipyard). Plenty of pubs ( a lot of them have live music with excellent bands and cover acts )shops. If you go, a tour/trip down the Falls road and the Shankill road is a must. It is a complete eye opener. We drove down the Shankill last time in 2 southern reg cars. Nothing happened but I kept my foot hovering above the accelerator all the same!

Wouldn't want to go in a cocktail bar there though and ask for a molotov. :Big Smile:

Well you could but they might actually give you one :Not me Guv:

Another suggestion would be Brighton. I lived there for a while many years ago. There's loads to see and do from the "palace" in the centre of town to quirky lanes and cafes, not forgetting the beachfront.

Scottish beaches I've been to this summer.

Blacksands beach-Aberdour, Fife.



Silversands beach-Aberdour, Fife.



Blackwaterfoot beach-Isle of Arran.



Mermaid on Shiskine beach-Isle of Arran.



Blackwaterfoot beach again...



Limekins beach-Fife.

Not much swimming going on there LR.

Perfectspecimen wrote:Not much swimming going on there LR.

too bloody cold to swim

Perfectspecimen wrote:Not much swimming going on there LR.

Well, as Billy Connolly says..."the North Sea is the Arctic ocean on holiday!"...

Nice photos but they have been digitally enhanced ...... that Mermaid is wearing trainers !!! :What?:

Giants Causeway

Carrickarede rope bridge ( a few miles away from the Giant's Causeway )

i could not stand on that bridge.

The guy holding both sides is my business partner. It took a lot of coaxing to get him to do it!