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.
- Coventry - City of cathedrals & Lady Godiva. read more
- Jedburgh - Once the favoured home of Scottish kings, Jedburgh is now a centre for riding, walking and climbing in the hills that surround it. read more
- Margate - Magnificent sands and fun fair have long made this Kent coastal resort a favourite holiday destination for East Londoners. read more
- Buxton - Gracious spa town on the eastern side of the Peak National Park whose location, at 1,000ft/304m, makes it one of the highest towns in England. read more
- Tenby - Inviting sandy beaches, safe sea waters and an historic town with plenty going on, reinforces Tenby's appeal as Pembrokeshire's top seaside resort. read more
- Oban - Ferry port for Scotland's west coast islands: to Mull, largest of the Inner Hebrides; to Iona, the cradle of Scottish Christianity, and Staffa and Fingal's Cave which gave birth to Mendelssohn's celebrated overture of the same name. read more
- Inverness - 'Capital' of the Scottish Highlands and eastern (North Sea) end of the Caledonian Canal. read more
- Llanarthne - Home to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. For transport to this idyllic rural spot, contact Carmarthen or Swansea tourist information centres. read more
- Portsmouth - One of the south coast's cross-Channel ferry ports, Portsmouth is also the command centre of the Royal Navy. read more
- Downpatrick - The resting place of St Patrick read more
- More destinations - Click here to see more destinations
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