User:Neddyseagoon/Holidays
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Been already
[edit]UK
[edit]South
[edit]- Hampshire
- Winchester - my patron saint
- Portsmouth and Gosport
- Southampton
- Portchester Castle
South-East
[edit]- London - one of my favourite places
- Kent
- East Sussex
- West Sussex
South-West
[edit]East Anglia
[edit]The North
[edit]- Hadrian's Wall
- County Durham
- Northumberland
- Newcastle, Monkwearmouth and Jarrow - I have a great-grandfather from round those parts
- Lindisfarne - where the Christian faith, and its history, is almost palpable in the air
Abroad
[edit]- Italy
- 2 week coach tour around northern Italy - "It's Tuesday, it must be Florence!" - but at least we got a full day in Rome
- Naples - Pompeii, Herculaneum, Baiae, Misenum, Pozzuoli, Naples National Archaeological Museum, Stabiae, Beneventum, Capua ... - the Bay of Naples classical full monteius
- Rome - the 2 week British School at Rome Summer School - brilliant, could really do the city at depth, and finally got round to the Vatican Museums
- France
- Bruges
- Sluis - my only foot on Dutch soil so far
Would like to go to...
[edit]- Rome or Italy again, particularly Paestum or Sicily
- Germany and Spain
- The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
- The Met and Getty museums
- Scotland (have got to Berwick upon Tweed thrice, but never actually north of the border) and / Ireland
- Cornwall, and the rest of south west England
- Provence - Nimes, Pont du Gard, etc
- Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Greece and Turkey - well, any modern country that was in the Roman Empire, really :-)