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Post by Knygathin on May 14, 2023 9:50:17 GMT
I visited Stonehenge in July of 1995 ... . The whole plain of Salisbury is really magical and there are sites not far at all from Stonehenge that aren't on the coach routes. Wayland's Smithy is one. I see now that Stonehenge is not far from my route, when visiting Avebury and Savernake Forest. Wayland's Smithy also seems magnificent.
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Post by Swampirella on May 14, 2023 10:05:30 GMT
How about investing in a portable charger? I hope you don't let cold hard reality stop you going on this adventure, it sounds wonderful!
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Post by Knygathin on May 14, 2023 10:31:59 GMT
How about investing in a portable charger? I hope you don't let cold hard reality stop you going on this adventure, it sounds wonderful! I have a charger, but it needs a socket (there may be some chargers that run on gas, like a generator, but I think they are pretty big). Tomorrow I will buy an extra battery, and then I am off.
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Post by Swampirella on May 14, 2023 10:50:29 GMT
Oops, I guess I was thinking of an ICE car. Best wishes for a safe and happy trip!
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Post by Knygathin on May 14, 2023 13:38:19 GMT
It is internal combustion. Still needs a car battery to start.
Thanks, and I will make sure to remember to drive on the left side of the road!
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Post by Swampirella on May 14, 2023 13:55:36 GMT
It is internal combustion. Still needs a car battery to start. Thanks, and I will make sure to remember to drive on the left side of the road! All I can say is I know somebody with a portable charger (for his dirt bike) who can plug it into the car to recharge, if it runs out after being charged up at home. That’s the extent of my knowledge about the whole subject.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on May 14, 2023 13:56:56 GMT
Some places of interest off the top of my head. Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Bronte sister's and their brother Branwell, an opium addict who, legend has it, insisted on dying standing up, to prove it could be done. If you are near Wales then Hay-on-Wye is famous for its book shops, also Laugharne, last home of Dylan Thomas. Cornwall has Jamaica Inn that appears in the Du Maurier novel, at Bolventor on Bodmin Moor. Bodmin Moor is home to the Beast of Bodmin, and also having King Arthur links with Dozmary Pool. The pool also plays a part in the legend of Jan Tregeagle: www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/legends/jan-tregeagle/The three older hill figures, Glastonbury Tor, Maiden Castle. Ely Cathedral is impressive, rising out of the fens. Durham Cathedral also because of its situation.
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Post by helrunar on May 14, 2023 15:24:33 GMT
If you wind up driving around Cornwall and find yourself browsing through some used bookshops (for me, that would be an ideal vacation), you might look for this book Cornrovia, by Craig Wetherhill. I used to own a copy, but gave it to a friend who loves Cornwall but is allergic to travel (she lives in Connecticut US). www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/10294694Hel.
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Post by Knygathin on May 14, 2023 17:58:08 GMT
Those places sound very interesting Annastacia. I have made some notes.
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Post by Knygathin on May 14, 2023 18:03:41 GMT
I was not kidding about driving on the left side. This trip will surely be challenge, in many ways.
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Post by Shrink Proof on May 14, 2023 18:34:58 GMT
I was not kidding about driving on the left side. This trip will surely be challenge, in many ways. It's not a problem, really. I've been doing it for years...
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Post by enoch on May 14, 2023 19:23:43 GMT
But what if the battery dies on me after a chilly night by the roadside in the middle of nowhere. Not a very desirable situation. But so many great horror stories start that way! It'll be an adventure! But if you do get stranded, stay in your car until daylight and steer clear of creepy old inns called "Ye Journey's End." Then you should be fine.
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Post by Swampirella on May 14, 2023 21:09:34 GMT
I was thinking along the same lines! Safe travels in any case.
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Post by Knygathin on May 15, 2023 3:10:18 GMT
But what if the battery dies on me after a chilly night by the roadside in the middle of nowhere. Not a very desirable situation. But so many great horror stories start that way! It'll be an adventure! But if you do get stranded, stay in your car until daylight and steer clear of creepy old inns called "Ye Journey's End." Then you should be fine. Haha, thanks for the humour. I am sure you would trade places with me. It reminds me of a roleplaying book I played as a kid, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, in which the destiny of your fragile paper character was determined by two dice.
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Post by samdawson on May 15, 2023 10:34:11 GMT
Seconded on Princess's suggestions. Maiden Castle is Dorset, Thomas Hardy land (also a magnet for Keith Roberts). Nearby Dorchester is rather disappointingly altered and busy, but much of the county is fascinating. The Isle of Purbeck is steeped in legend, often relating to stone/stones. Bovington (which has a superb tank museum that regularly wins over people who think they have no interest in those machines) and nearby Clouds Hill are intimately connected to TE Lawrence (of Arabia). There's a steam railway, a superb castle (Corfe), with quaint village and tiny museum and the nearby village of Worth Matravers, which boasts a pub that is just wonderful, as well as coastal walks, massive quarried caves, and has been a location for Dr Who and now for the new Star Wars TV series. Swanage is the home of British diving. There's also Lyme Regis and Durdle Door. If you ride there is a very good stables at Studland Bay which does treks way over the moors (talking of moors, people visit Dartmoor just for the connection to the Hound of the Baskervilles, and Exmoor for Lorna Doone). Also, have you thought about East Anglia, in particular Suffolk, an archaeological feast and the setting for many of MR James's stories? Alderburgh has a book festival, a good bookshop, excellent fish and chips, a small neighboring village lost to the sea and the Martello tower from A Warning to the Curious. Southwold is lovely, while Dunwich is the remainder of a once thriving town submerged over the centuries. Excellent local museum, one pub and the ruins of a leper hospital. At school in the 1960s we were told about its church bells which could be heard ringing far below the waves at night by local fishermen (all legend of course). The slopes below the disappearing last church used to be peppered with the bones of those interred there. You can pick up bricks and stonework from the monastery and the old town along the beach slopes.
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