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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

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.

• Crail - One of the historic fishing ports of south-east Fife otherwise an area known as The Neuk (or Corner). read more
• Haworth - Home of the Bronte sisters read more
• Pontypridd - Gateway to the South Wales valleys which, until the 1970s, was at the heart of a prolific coal mining industry. Visit Brochurelink for a free 2006 guide to Southern Wales. read more
• Edinburgh - Capital city of Scotland since 1492, Edinburgh has been described as the 'Athens of the North' principally for the addition, in the 19th century, of buildings modelled on ancient Athenian architecture. read more
• Alford - A market town on the River Don, Alford sits at the very heart of the Grampian Mountains, 24mls/38km inland from Aberdeen. read more
• South Shields - Relics of Roman and early Saxon Christian occupation are the hallmarks of South Shields which sits at the mouth of the River Tyne, today 12mls/19km from the centre of Newcastle. read more
• Plymouth - A naval city celebrated for its intrepid mariners, among whom were the Pilgrim Fathers, who put into Plymouth in 1620 aboard the now legendary Mayflower. read more
• Paisley - Paisley lies 7mls/11km to the west of Glasgow and, to all intents and purposes, for the visitor it is part of it. read more
• Rye - Coastal East Sussex at its most compelling. read more
• Orkney Isles, Stromness - Fishing and ferry port on the west coast of Orkney's 'Mainland' island. read more
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