A great travel from England to Wales, visit some of the United Kingdom major cities

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The date of the trip is symbolic because I do not remember the exact period. The tour was made with a Fiat Tempra with a friend coming to England by ferry from Calais to Dover, where I saw the famous white cliffs (I had already arrived here years ago for a tour in Great Britain and Ireland, but I had embarked at night to that I had not seen the reefs. In this new tour again also London deepening visit). First stage in Canterbury, the Vatican of Anglicans in that here there is the Cathedral Primatial of this righteous religion from the Sovereign of the day. We visited the great cathedral, the old city and a regimental museum. On the way to London we stopped to observe from afar the architectural features of Rochester. The first contact with the metropolis of London was in the green district of Greenwich to visit the Museum of the navy, the sailing ship Cutty Sark and the seat of the Astronomical Observatory meridian 0 and the time of the official world. The Center can be reached through a beautiful park, is stored within a museum astronomical. Wimbledom night. In the morning following the visit to London by Westmister (inside the Cathedral) to Trafalgar Square you can see some of the architectural and historical jewels of the Capital as the House with the famous Big Ben, the bridge over the River Thames, Downing Street residence of Prime Minister and so on. The monumental Trafalgar Square, dominated by the column with the monument to Nelson is home to the National Gallery we visit. After the tunnel through the Arch of Admiral to go through The Mall, the road which leads us in front of the Palazzo Reale, not before having made a small detour to St James Park with its romantic lake. From here, crossing the Green Park reach the area of the Club and noble palaces of the tree up St James's Square. A brief peek at Waterloo Place and we are in the modern hub of Piccadilly Circus from which we reach the legendary but insignificant Carnaby Street, the road in 70 years has the trend for young people and continue the colorful China Town and close the evening with the Royal Opera House and Covent Garden market (here you can also peek from windows of the Museum of Transport). Return to Wimbledon in meters for accommodation. On the second day in London is dedicated to visiting museums. Early in the morning we focus on another mythical but disappointing road, Portobello Road, then crossing Kensingston Park between the lake and the eponymous Royal Palace, we pass in front surroundings at Memorial Hall and surroundings at raggiungento area of Museums. First dedicated to Victoria and Albert Museum where there is a bit of everything in the arts, and the Museum of Natural History with huge skeletons of prehistoric animals and that of knowledge. The beauty of the British Museum is that you do not pay. The three visits we have absorbed all day, we should see the famous Harrod's store, really beautiful especially in architecture and interior fittings in the treatment of sales. Return to the metro a Wimbledoon to take the car and leave the Capital, too tired to stay here, we will continue to return the visit. In fact traced back to Cambridge, a city nestled in the beautiful green of its parks to be plowed romantic torrents. Here are the main course from the famous College magnificent aristocratic architecture visitatene at least a couple, King's and Trinity at all. Evening in Norwich, a city that can be easily avoided, overnight on the road to the north.
The next morning we continue the trip to Durham, where we come in the early afternoon, in time to see the great cathedral and visit the College in a Castle. On the way to Carisle deviamo on a small village with the remains of Hadrian's wall. In late evening we are at the port of Heysham where you embark for the Isle of Man (see on Tour). The next night we return to Heysham and taken the car stay on the road to Chester. The following day stop in Chester on the border with Wales, a city of Roman origin with timbered houses. Came into Wales we step in the seaside resort of Colwyn Bay and Llandudno and Conwy Castle which is a real plunge into the Middle Ages. A Caernarfon Castle awaits us another, the one that traditionally is used to place the title of Prince of Wales, the future King of England. But Caernarfon is also interesting as coastal town. Crossing the Snowdonya National Park in a landscape often bare and the moon come back to England where to stay. The morning after visiting the historic center with some Warwich timbered house but especially to the beautiful castle, in which were reconstructed environments of all ages with the aid of wax statues. In the afternoon, Stratford upon Avon, another beautiful town that lives in memory of William Shakespeair perpetrated in a modern museum, but especially in homes where he lived. The urban fabric is composed of the typical timbered houses surrounded by greenery lapped by the River Avon. In the evening along and moving to Cornwall precisely Saltasch for accommodation. The next morning stop in Looe and visit the beautiful village of Polperro Cornwall or how you have always imagined: cliffs, lighthouse, harbor, gulls etc.. Back pass from the chaotic center of Plymouth, the town where the pilgrims left their fathers at a time of the new world. We leave Cornwall and the first evening we Stonhenge admiring the megalithic monument on Salisbury then to see his huge cathedral. To go back to sleep Wimbledoon. The next morning take a visit to London starting from the great Cathedral of St. Paul also interesting in continuing with the Museum of the City that reconstructs all the historical phases, and the City with its aristocratic buildings including City Hall, the Bank of England, the Lloyd. Passing through the large column The Monument to arrive at the Tower of London, where we enter for a walk between the towers, museums and the collection of the jewels of the Crown while the so-called "beef eaters" we observe. Before returning to Wimbledoon to stay there do not miss the Church of Sauthwark. The following day is devoted to visiting the British Museum, one of the most important in the world where trace the history of mankind in all ages and in all latitudes. After yet another accommodation to Wimbledoon, given that the car we left there ever reaching London by underground, we look at the Hapton Castle Court, which traces the entire history of the English crown and where it perpetuates the memory of Henry VIII. Reached from here to Dover accommodation. At the next morning ferry to Calais in France.