What was your favorite part of visiting The UK ?

Walk from Bourton-on-the-Water to Upper & Lower Slaughter on a gorgeous day, with a picnic by a stream in Lower Slaughter. Possibly the most lovely day I've ever experienced.

Highland Folk Museum in Scotland. Love a good living history museum!

Staying overnight at Culcreuch Castle.

Day trip mini-bus tour from York to the North York Moors and Whitby.

In York: Jorvik, the York Castle Museum, and evening ghost tours.

The time I proposed to my now-husband at Westminster Abbey (he said yes and a choir started singing).

The Ghost Bus tour in London, and seeing all the big London attractions anew through our then-seven-year-old's eyes. Best day: Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross, London Zoo, and British Museum.

Day split between the Trentham Monkey Forest and Mary Arden's Farm- weather was brilliant and our kid had such a fun time.

Sunrise Stonehenge tour followed by a joust festival at Old Sarum.

Fossil hunting at Lyme Regis.

Corfe Castle on a day when they had historical re-enactments.

Chirk Castle on a beautiful sunny day.

Doune Castle, for the Monty Python and Outlander connections. Also, being in Inverness after being a long-time Outlander fan.

Warwick Castle, especially when we stayed overnight in one of their lodges, complete with evening entertainment for the kid. Pure magic.

Avebury and the West Kennet Long Barrow- went to both twice on different trips, and it was equally awe-inspiring both times.

Burley in the New Forest- wild ponies everywhere!

(We've been to the UK.... 7 times. We're obsessed!)

London
Visits with Nigel and his wife.
Guinness
My secret pub
Long walks on the Thames Path
Walking along the Regents Canal Path
Pre dawn walks along the Serpentine in Hyde Park,
Then a scone and coffee at the Lido Cafe
Hampstead Heath
Wilton’s Music Hall
Lunch at the Booking Office
Mudlarking
All the grave yards
The Painted Hall at The Greenwich Royal Naval
Academy
Sands Film School
Theatre
Neal’s Yard
Hurlingham Books Puntney
Christmas Eve Mass @ St Paul’s
Evensong at St Brides
Pho Saigon and Ginger and Moore in Ealing
Portobello and Goldborne Road and Maltby Street Markets
Leadenhall Market
Spitafields and Brick Lane
Eel Pie Island Artists
Mudchute Farm
Lyme Regis
Durham and Durham Cathedral
and did I mention London?

We've also been 7 times-but some of those were overnight layovers on the way to somewhere else
The British Museum
Westminster Abbey
Walking on the Wall at York with local guide, also York Castle Museum
Tea at Fortnum and Mason's
St. Fagan's Welsh Life Museum
Golfers in Family-St. Andrews
Durham-nice little college town with some interesting sights
Christmas in London, including service at Westminster Abbey and getting to see the Christmas
Downton Abbey before the season had even been shown in the US
Evensong anywhere-we've been at Salisbury, York, Durham, Cambridge

Aside from the obvious sights, the memories that stick out...

Seeing the Area, including the Church and Graveyard that one line of my ancestors came from in Cornwall, and still evidence of today.

Joining the locals in a Pub in Bath to watch the Quarter Final game of Euro Cup in 2004 (England lost) It was packed shoulder to shoulder in the middle of a weekday as I recall. It was as wild a time filled with the highest highs and lowest lows as you can imagine.

Visiting Masham in North Yorkshire, and spending the afternoon at the wonderful Victorian era brewery of Theakston Brewery. It was a bit slow that day, the three of us were the only ones on the tour, the old codger that gave the tour was very knowledgeable, full of stories, spent about two to three times the tour time with us, and generous in the tasting room.

I miss walking paths very very much.
Exploring gardens and cemeteries
History everywhere
A week in a great location overlooking Mousehole harbour
Living in Greenwich for a short time
Trains
The family friendly culture of pubs

Thanks for this! Love the ideas, and Claudia, that list of yours is amazing and I’m beyond excited for our first trip to London! Leaving tomorrow!!! :)

@Ferrin It’s a great city for exploration. Every visit I discover something new. Have a wonderful trip!

@Ashley I just booked 2 nights in Mousehole to see the Christmas Harbor Lights!!!

Seeing the vacant land where stood the Christopher Wren church in London where my great-great-great etc grandfather & grandmother were married in the 1700s before emigrating to America. The church was hit by a bomb in the Blitz.

@claudia you’ll love mousehole. I would definitely stay there again if i went back to Cornwall.

@kent It’s so great to know those things about your family. I found where my great great grandma was born and where she was baptised in London on my last trip in the 1890s. I’m leaving for England on Thursday and this time going back further down my line and going to a few places my family was from between Somerset and Wiltshire.

Liverpool. Been there numerous times. My all time favorite memory? That’s got to be last year when I met another American visiting and he and I went on a date that night. It was fun to humble brag that I know Liverpool quite well and would be happy to show him around.