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Cotswold Walk to Bath to ?? to London

Posted by (San Francisco Bay Area) on

Dear helpful folks,

I’m trying to figure out what best to insert between our Bath location (where we will do several day trips) and London. We have seven or eight days between Bath and London.

For what it's worth, I looked into Cardiff, Shrewsbury, and Liverpool, but I’m not necessarily sold on any of those. I’m open to all your helpful suggestions! We prefer at least two nights in places so we have a day to explore, but otherwise we are totally open to what you all think.

We travel via train — no car for us.

Many thanks!
Patty

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Oxford?? Couple of days there plus day trips to Blenheim and Stratford on Avon?

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Thanks, BillS719 … guess I should have mentioned that we did Oxford on another trip. We also did York, although I was sick for a day so missed a bit of it. Still, I think we saw what we needed to see.

I’m not averse to a train trip that is as much as 3 hours if the destination is worth the time!

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Chichester.? Attractive, if small, Cathedral Town but near Arundel, Portsmouth historic dockyard and the remains of a Roman Villa at nearby Fishbourne. Plus Goodwood House, too, I think. All doable by train except Goodwood which might be a bus ride.

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I would go to Cardiff so I could go to St. Fagan's Museum of Folk Life. It's one of my favorite places I've been.

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I was going to suggest heading north to the Malvern Hills but it looks like that might take a while on the train (tho it's a very lovely area). I would also think about heading down to the coast- you could head down to Weymouth in Dorset on a direct train and have a very nice time on the Jurassic Coast (Durdle Door etc).

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Many thanks for all the suggestions! Still pondering … it’s a tough call for me, to be honest. We could go south and do Portsmouth and head over to Dover maybe, then back to London. OR we could head up through Worcester, Shrewsbury, and then Chester (i’ve just read little snippets about those spots). Honestly I’m rather torn.

And yes, we could also go the Cardiff route.

Argh! I want a simple and easy answer, but with all the good suggestions … well … we shall see!

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