>>This summer I'm taking my wife and 19 y/o son on a two week trip to Scotland, Ireland and England. We will probably visit the following places:
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>>I'm sorry John, but your itinerary sounds a bit ambitious for only a two week trip - it sounds like "If it's Tuesday, it must be Belguium" < s >.
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>>These are the sites that I would recommend in England:
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>>The following are in or near London:
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>>Buck House
>>Stonehenge and Avebury
>>Windsor Castle
>>Cabinet War Rooms
>>Westminster Abbey
>>Madam Toussaud's
>>British Museum
>>Tower of London
>>Trafalgar Square and the National Galary
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>>And you must visit Bath while you are there.
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>>Andy and I did a tour of the Scottish Highlands a couple of years back. If you want to rent a car and devote a week to the drive, you could probably do what we did:
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>>Drove up through York - spend a day in York.
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>>Spend a day in Edinburgh
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>>Visit Pitlochery - if you get there the right time of year, you can watch the salmon jumping < s >.
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>>Walk St. Andrew's golf course.
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>>See Hadrian's Wall.
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>>Then you can drive back via the Lake District which is quite beautiful.
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>>However, to be honest, you are not going to do England, Scotland and Ireland all in a single 2 week trip.
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>This is what I was looking for. Duh, I should have thought of Andy and you first thing!
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>Oh well, I may have to think about stretching the trip, or else just shorten it and make another trip in a year or so. I've still got an elk hunt to do this fall in Colorado.
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>This retirement is killing me!<g>

John

I tend to agree with Marcia about how much can be crammed into a visit of that length.

But

With the new High Speed rail link from St Pancras a day trip from London to paris via Eurotunnel is very do-able. You have the advantage of no ridiculous airline check in times and plus you depart from central London and arrive at the Gar du Nord in the middle Paris. So no time wasted travelling from an airport to the bits of the city you want to visit. (Hey I can feel a trip to paris coming on !)