[Healeys] March vacation to the UK

I Erbs eyera3 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 16:05:30 MST 2011


What he said.  Plus tour the Morgan factory

Ira Erbs
Digs 4 Solutions
Computer Consultants
Portland, OR
On Jan 26, 2011 3:03 PM, "Eric (Rick) Wilkins" <e-wilkins at cox.net> wrote:
> 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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>>
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