[Healeys] March vacation to the UK

[Eric (Rick) Wilkins]

I don't about big events, but my wife and I travel at that time  
because it's relatively cheap to go "off season".

I'd say if you're car type, go to England. Warwickshire is a great  
place to center your trip. Stratford upon Avon is in Warwickshire, as  
is Warwick. Stratford is very tourist, but the home of Shakespeare, so  
it's got the WIfe covered. Same with Warwick. A very beautiful very  
"English" city with the lovely (even if overly Disney-fied). You can  
still go to the Cape and have a pint and sit on the canal as the  
Healeys did.
Gaydon is very close to there with the British Heritage Auto museum.  
You're only a couple hours from Castle Combe which is a tiny beautiful  
English town with a huge racing heritage and a track. There may be  
something on the calendar at that time. A day trip south as you're in  
the Cotswolds will give you more than enough quaint english stuff to  
see on your way to Bath and Saslibury where you need to see Stonehenge.

Wilko
San Diego


On Jan 26, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Jody Kerr wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a question for my friends "across the pond." My wife and I are
> finally getting around to taking our honeymoon and we've settled on
> visiting the UK. Children's school calendars being what they are, it
> looks like our window of opportunity is the second week in March.
>
> We're having trouble deciding between Scotland, England or Ireland.
> All the packages we've looked at are roughly the same price, but our
> (read: her) concern is around the weather. It looks like the March
> timeframe may be a bit nippy & wet.
>
> Also, are there any big car events that I might want to steer
> ourselves towards "by accident"?
>
> Jody
>
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