The Wandering Thule ventures North again - planning stage

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Whilst PT has never considered himself to be an inveterate traveler bitten by the bug, we have clocked up the odd km or so in the past couple of years. :upside_down_face:

The next venture is for the northern summer of 2027 where for a couple of weeks in July our cricket club is following the ENG vs AUS Ashes Tour. Those couple of weeks will be more fun than a barrel of frogs of itself and are fully organised and catered.

But this will represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit the UK and hence I am planning to extend the tour with say a fortnight both pre and post tour on a personal agenda. Two weeks in Scotland can be readily filled twice over, Culloden, distilleries, highland train trips, ancestorial places of interest plus Edinburgh etc.

But what would the assembled Dope consider to be the “must sees” and “curiosities if you are so bent” of a fortnight spent in south England and in/around London. Unlikely I’ll have vehicle access. Not big on crowds. Have eclectic interests.

KInd regards
PT

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There are plenty of threads here asking the same thing…
So I’ll just add that I’ll buy you a pint* when you’re here.

*Haha. “a pint” - like we’d stop at one !

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The Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. One of my favorites - it’s a house packed to the rafters with stuff.

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There’s quite a lot of stuff in the south of England, do you have anything more to go on than ‘eclectic’? Also no interest in stopping off anywhere north on the way to Scotland?

With the way the UK public transport system works, it makes more sense to me to consider travel time than to look by region if you don’t have a car - it’s easier, faster and even cheaper to visit, say, Manchester (John Rylands library is highly recommended) from London than it is to visit Cornwall.