My route and why I chose it

Published by lucy rigley on

So, choosing where to go in 2 weeks hasn’t been easy.  I had originally wanted to go up to Scotland to visit places like the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and to Norfolk to take the kids on a fun day out to BerWILDerwood but having looked at the route and taking into account we want to do the trip in 2 weeks, I decided that this would be too much driving. As it is, we may be driving around 1000 miles – in a small family car with 2 children – any more and I think we may end up exhausting ourselves.

We would love to do more trips to places such as those mentioned above – maybe weekends or short breaks. Depending on the success of this journey I’d love this blog to get bigger and maybe open it up to other families to write guest blogs and features. The aim would be to help each other plan great days out and journeys. 

I have tried to make it so we can do one stop and not too long a journey in one day. The times are also subject to change – depending what time of day I look them up, they change! What I do know is we will be allowing much longer than is shown here.

Some of the places we plan to visit are Unesco Heritage Centres – more details can be found on their website https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/gb and I have also incorporated suggestions from the Eco Attractions website https://www.ecoattractions.com/places

Day Total distanceDistanceTime
Thurs 25th July1Drive from York to Tower of London 2182183:50
Fri
26th July
2Visit Tower of London
Drive to Kew Gardens (1 hour)
Unesco Heritage
Centre
229111:05
Sat
27th July
3Visit Kew Gardens, London
Drive to Living Rainforest (45 mins)
277480.43
Sun
28th July
4Visit Living Rainforest, Berkshire
334
57
0.52
Mon
29th July
5Drive to Stonehenge, Salisbury (1 hour)
Visit Stonehenge
Unesco Heritage Centre37541
1:03
Tues
30th July
6Drive to Eden Project (2 hours 20)5041292:21
Wed
31st July
7Visit Eden Project
Drive to National Marine Aquarium
544401:00
Thurs
1st Aug
8Visit National Marine Aquarium 

59550
Fri
2nd Aug
9Drive to Botanic Garden of Wales 

7491633:32
Sat
3rd Aug
10
Visit Botanic Garden of Wales 

Sun
4th Aug
11Drive to Centre for Alternative Technology,820712:03
Mon
5th Aug
12Visit Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales 
Thur
8th Aug
13 Drive to GreenWood885651:37
Wed
7th Aug
14Visit GreenWood, Snowdonia
Thur
8th Aug
15
Drive back to York1059174
3:00


1 Comment

Ev Nick · May 17, 2019 at 12:02 pm

Best of luck with your trip!

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