So What is This About?
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Over the last years, I have visited the UK once or twice a year. It's an easy weekend break from Holland, and I always enjoy going there: discovering new regions, buying travel books and enjoying good Indian food.
Participation
* Blaenavon Industrial Landscape * Blenheim Palace * Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church * Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
* City of Bath * Derwent Valley Mills * Dorset and East Devon Coast * Durham Castle and Cathedral * Giants Causeway and Causeway Coast * Gough and Inaccessible Islands
* Hadrian's Wall * Henderson Island * Ironbridge Gorge * Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City * Maritime Greenwich * New Lanark * Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
* Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
* Saltaire * St. Kilda * Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
* Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
* The Heart of Neolithic Orkney * The Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda * Tower of London * Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church *
Benefits
Northern England
August 2004
Staying in Durham, I enjoyed a few beautiful late summer days in Northern England: reading a book or two in the sun, eating out.
On the worldheritage front, I added Durham (mainly the Cathedral) and Hadrian's Wall (back to Roman times in very English surroundings) to my Visited list.
Greenwich
January 2004
The weather was very appropriate to the theme of this visit: rain and storm accompanied me in Maritime Greenwich. However, I found the trip very worthwhile: there is a lot to see and to do in Greenwich, both inside (the museums) and outside (the town and waterfront).
London
March 2003
Went to London for a job interview at the Ford motor company. Don't know the outcome, but hey, here's visited world heritage number 117.