A guide that promises an adventure
The pages on this site describe UK travel for the overseas visitor. When we have brought everything up-to-date it will be the same story for the native Brit too. Inter-city routes covered by coach, train, 'plane, and ferry services that sail to Britain's offshore islands and mainland Europe.
Originally devised as a paper guide for the British Tourist Authority (now VisitBritain), Getting About Britain also provides details on the regional bus and train (often called 'local services') and international routes that connect Britain to many European centres.
More than 1,200 UK destinations are listed, all with contacts and an equally impressive line-up of accommodation from five star hotels to cheap and cheerful hostels at journeys end. Try Speyside for a start.
Clive Lewis
Editor
Brochurelink
Free brochures from destinations all over the UK, to wherever in the world you may be. Simply fill in the Brochurelink coupon, and sit back and wait for the postman to deliver!
Essex Brochure - Stoke Brochure - West Wales Brochure - More >>
The Original Tour
Planning a visit to the capital? Considered seeing London by famous open-top red bus? The Original Tour provides a round-the-clock hop-on, hop-off bus service with a running commentary in many languages. The same ticket brings trips on the River Thames too.
Avoid the queues. Book ahead now.
Destinations
Click here to visit out destinations page!
gettingaboutbritain.com is a completely new approach to travel for the independent traveller. It journeys to hundreds of locations across our islands, unwraps the process of travel and invites the visitor to pick a way to ride the routes from the choices we present in our pages.
Sample the ups and downs of the Lake District, the melodious tones of a Welsh male voice choir, the pomp and circumstance of a London parade, the caber tossing exertions of Highland games or the tip-toeing navigation of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway. Of course, there are the straightforward, A to B trips too.
At its heart, gettingaboutbritain.com number-crunches its way through costs and frequencies of bus, train, ‘plane and ferry services opening up a rich seam of things to do and places to go around the UK.
Here are a few randomly selected destinations.
- Royal Tunbridge Wells - Gentrified ostentation from the days of 18th century England is a hallmark that the mid-Kent spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells presents to the visiting world with great panache. read more
- Exeter - Up until the 15th century, Exeter was the western-most city in England. read more
- Poole - Port and market town since the 13th century. read more
- Braintree - This is deep rural Essex complete with timbered houses, moated manors and fine church towers and over it all magnificent skies which fired the imagination of painters Constable and Gainsborough. read more
- Portsmouth - One of the south coast's cross-Channel ferry ports, Portsmouth is also the command centre of the Royal Navy complete with a fascinating museum. read more
- Swansea - Second largest city in Wales, after Cardiff, and one of the Bristol Channel?s long-established ports. read more
- Eastwood - To writer D H Lawrence, the Nottinghamshire seen from his Eastwood mining village home was "the country of my heart". read more
- Aylesbury - The Vale for all seasons. read more
- Royal Leamington Spa - Popular Midlands spa town made 'Royal' following the visit of Queen Victoria in 1838. read more
- Rugby - The home of Rugby football read more
- More destinations - Click here to see more destinations
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