Well, its time to wrap up my trip to England and a little of North Wales.? I rented a Renault Clio 1.5 diesel and was very impressed with it.? It handled well at both high motorway speeds and on the twisty country lanes.? With a range of 600 MILES per tank,? its really is a great little car. Ideal for 2 adults and luggage for a long trip and great for day trips with 4 adults.
The last day of driving was spent on my favourite Yorkshire Moors at the village of Dent,? but not before a stop at the Barbon Inn in Barbon ( a 17th century coaching inn) (BarbonInn@aol.com) for a fine pub lunch.
My 30 days of walking, driving, enjoying fine cask ales, good traditional pubs with good pub grub and many a tasty cream tea at a variety of tea shops was, all in all, an excellent trip out of high season.? Give it a go yourselves.
We hope you have found this trip blog of England to be useful for any future trip planning. In closing, when driving in England - you need to be ‘aggressively defensive’ and aware at all times either on the motorways, ‘A’ roads or ‘white roads’ (which are my favourite roads ). It is nice to rekindle these driving skills though.
The Nomad
Useful links for your UK trip:
Caravaning: www.caravanclub.co.uk
Settle-Carlisle Railway: www.settle-carlisle.co.uk/walks
Ingleton: www.ingleton.co.uk
White Scar Cave: www.whitescarcave.co.uk
Dent Village: www.dentvillageheritagecentre.com
Shacklabank Walking Holidays: www.shacklabank.co.uk
Caravan and Camping: www.highlaning.co.uk
England Tourism: www.enjoyengland.com
Britian Attractions: www.britainsfinest.co.uk
At toptravelsites.com we are introducing an interactive forum for travellers to nominate their favourite ‘TopTraditionalPub’ and ‘TopTeaShop’ in Britain…stay tuned and let us know about your favourite places…The Nomad