travel scratchpad!

The whole one month planning seems like an ardous task to plan, because I'm sure you guys would want to see more right? not just go to the major cities and leave... But then again I'm not so sure as to whether we'll actually make it that far. Whatever it is, at least I'm going to TRY to plan something like it! haha!

so, where to start? I tot, start with UK lorh. thats where we'll head to first right?

Say we don't take eurail, but raileurope instead. I'm thinking raileurope cos it's cheaper than eurail, and it also includes UK. yah, eurail doesn't include UK... and since we'll only travel for 1 month (which includes UK), it's quite silly if we take something that doesn't have UK and then waste a few days of the train pass. :) Raileurope poses some problems though, cos it's UK based. But I guess in anycase can get my aunt to help get the passes bah... She's living in UK and she's the one who sent me the link. whatever it is, i guess EVEN if we don't take a rail pass in UK, I'm basing the following on BritRail, a rail in UK...

So here's BritRail's site. Alternatively you can just download the map and follow my thoughts!

Some random thoughts before we start:

1. We'll go visit lifang in bath? or is bath on the itinery? will lifang just meet us straight in london?
2. any other parts of england you guys really wanna see cept for london eye?
3. i suggest we stay just one night in london cos its expensiveeeeee. :( poor.
4. Hokay. just found this... check out the scenic routes that BritRail suggest!
5. how far UP are we going?!?!? Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh sounds DAMN tempting ><)

On the BritRail site, there's this page on suggested itineraries... http://www.britrail.com/index_planningtools_suggesteditineraries.cfm?countrykey=SG&language=EN

HEH. being ME, i decided to zoom my attention on:

ITINERARY 4- The Grand Tour:
London to York (2 hr); to Edinburgh (2hr ½); to
Inverness (3hr ½); to Glasgow (3hr ½); to Windermere (2hr ¾); to
Birmingham(3hr); to Bath (2hr); to Penzance (4hr ½); to Exeter (3hr ½); to
Salisbury (1hr ¾); to London (1hr ½).

BUT! I think we can skip Inverness, so we'll go straight from Edinburgh to Glasgow which takes 1 hr. And maybe we can skip the trip to Penzance and Exeter which is far in the west... And if thats the case then i dunno if Salisbury must go or not also... hahah... so! here's my version of itinerary 4:

London to York (2 hr); to Edinburgh (2hr ½); to Glasgow (1hr); to Windermere (2hr ¾); to Birmingham(3hr); to Bath (2hr); to Salisbury (1hr); to London (1hr ½).

hrrms. i didn't really take into account the scenic routes part, yet. haha... but here's my suggestion for now... =)