Hello all
Caught a few episodes of Escape to the country recently and it does showcase how beautiful your countryside is. I'd love to get a chance to explore it.
Where are your favourite countryside locations?
Thinking places with lots of green fields, fresh vegetables, local pubs and added bonus if near a few stables.
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Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
Dartmoor and exmoor - ( pretty much anywhere down in the West Country really!) Cornwall is lovely as well - and Gloucestershire.
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granger (24th March 2019)
Dartmoor is beautiful, and right on my doorstep
granger (24th March 2019)
West Somerset. Unspoilt, we have beaches and moorland. Some great pubs too!
I take it you mean Racing stables? In which case we have Mr Pipe, Mr Hobbs and Mr Scott and a few others!
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granger (24th March 2019)
In terms of England, the Lake District is a class higher than anywhere else
Bring Scotland into the equation however, and its a different shooting match altogether
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. _ Harry Limes
granger (24th March 2019)
Or wales. Basically any part of the British countryside is gorgeous!!
Hadn’t realised how many of us were in the West Country
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The countryside of our smallish island is amazingly diverse, thanks mainly to its complex geology
I don't have a favourite location: the 20-runners would comprise a field of 1/20 co-favs
Those mentioned thus far are amongst them and I'll just throw in the Malvern Hills and the Yorkshire Dales; the latter of which just about includes Middleham if you want a horsey connection
Oh to be in England, Scotland and Wales now that April is nearly here
granger (24th March 2019)
Double post
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I'll figure out a way to see some of these places. Thanks for the suggestions everyone and keep them coming.
Few life changes of late has made me revaluate what really matters in life.
My heart is happier in the countryside for one.
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
I take it you've never spent any time in Lincolnshire? or Northants? come to think of it, Norfolk's pretty bland too. Leicestershire and Warwickshire haven't that much going for them either. Add South Yorkshire (well the bits in the A1 corridor anyway) the bits west of Sheffield are fine (although they tend to be called Derbyshire)Originally Posted by trudij
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. _ Harry Limes
Maybe I’m just more appreciative of it than some....
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Feel free to bring in the Scots or Wales
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
Scotland is beautiful all round (though I'd probably take out the part I live in as it is a never ending mass of wind turbines - South Lanarkshire).
I'd recommend the Fort William area (Glencoe etc), Galloway, the Borders, Grampian hills.
granger (25th March 2019)
Rural anywhere in the UK is beautiful, from my limited experience but there are some stunning little chocolate-box villages in England.
I also find rural English people a match for anybody anywhere I've been in the world.
Illegitimi non carborundum
Could we ask them to sort out Conor McGregor?I also find rural English people a match for anybody anywhere I've been in the world.
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Khabib sorted that
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
I like the Cotswolds in spring time.
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And that small head knew that Impaire Et Passe would win the Champion Hurdle."
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Grey (26th March 2019)
He's done that before though
I'm sure you threw in a couple of those just to get a reaction Alun!
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