Uniquely green with its variable weather, these maritime nations are steeped in a history of conflict from William the Conqueror in 1066 to two world wars 1914 and 1939. There are many imposing castles and other fine buildings and estates gifted by the nation and monarchs past as a grateful gesture for conquests made and battles won. Here is the mother of Parliaments whose democratic principles are renowned around the world. Industrial revolution with coal, water and innovation set in a perpetual backcloth of villages, rivers and forests fired the entrepreneur..

England

London the Tower, Big Ben, palaces, museums & theatre.  York the Cathedral & a Viking settlement. Bath the Royal Crescent and Roman Baths, Chester for old England, Stratford –upon-Avon & the Bard. English Lake District for Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter & John Peel.  Dartmoor for isolation, the Cotswolds for beauty.  Devon & Cornwall for seafaring and smuggling.

Scotland  

Edinburgh Castle & Princes Street, Isle of Skye and the blue mountains, Loch Lomond and the “Glen O’Weeping”  Loch Ness  where “Nessie” hides, Royal Deeside with Balmoral Castle, The Trosachs & Loch katrine, Border country with Robbie Burns, John O’Groats, the Shetlands, Orkney and Hebridean islands.

Wales 

Wooded  mountains & deep valleys, World renowned great Choirs, Caernarvon Castle, Llandudno & the Great Orm, Snowdonia national park, Mining for coal and slate. Llandrindod Wells, Isle of Anglesey, Tenby, Fishguard port and St David’s tenuously attached to the rugged coastline. “There’ll be a welcome in the hillsides and a welcome in the dales”

Ireland  

Dublin’s fair city, Grafton Street, Croke Park, Blarney Castle for the gift of the gab, Cork to Killarney for the Ring of Kerry, Belfast, birthplace of the Titanic, Derry, The Giants Causeway and the Mountains of Mourne.

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